Yoshihisa Hirano – Tanken Driland (Complete score)

Yoshihisa Hirano
Tanken Driland
Studio Orchestra

The complete score for the animation

Download (https://mega.co.nz/#!O95mxTTY!WknVhiKaA9E3-x7Fqex5Zmc1U_UoEGjDCWuTDpMtyXw)
CD-Rip / FLAC / 62 Tracks / 93 minutes

This is everything Hirano wrote for Driland (so far), I recently bought a large package from CDJapan and I had a few bucks left in my wallet so what the hell 😀 (I’m dangerously close to becoming a Hirano fanboy). But what a score! From modern ambience and rock to classical waltzes and marches, from somber piano pieces to all out orchestral bombast, this is Hirano at his absolute best. All this glory was achieved with such a small ensemble as well but through his masterful composition and orchestration skills he managed to make it sound bigger than your average studio orchestra. He also wrote some of my favorite pieces for this show, including Welcome to Driland!, Adventure Princess or King’s Arrival. Even your average "game" ambient track sounds magical (Arcanum in the Cavern) and I really love the rock version of the Main Theme. Sometimes I prefer Hirano in "jolly adventure mode" and contrary to many of his fans I love HunterxHunter because of that BUT there is no dispute that his serious side is more satisfying for the brain (Driland has plenty examples of that as well).
Certainly one of the best scores of 2012 and one of my favorite anime scores in general.
That a guy like him is writing music in 2014 and getting money to perform it makes me not lose faith in humanity after all but on the other hand he is writting it for japanese late night TV shows, often incredibly niche … but on second thought that’s actually hilarious 😀

ENJOY
(and buy the OST please)