Various Artists

TV, Anime & Manga New Age Soundtracks 1984-1993

Electronic Ambient, Modern Classical
25,00 €
In stock
Audio LP SKU : TIME015
    Release date
  • April 25, 2025
    Pressing
  • Original
    Conditions
  • New
    Vinyl
  • Black
Description

TV, Anime & Manga New Age Soundtracks 1984-1993 charts this moment across eight tracks spanning classics of the genre and previously unknown rarities. The collection brings together music that found kinship in electronic and acoustic instrumentation, often combining spiritual or environmental themes with percussive, varied and highly refined syncopations of non-Western musical traditions.

Among them is ‘Kaneda’ by Geinoh Yamashirogumi, the shape-shifting group of self-styled musicians, anthropologists and computer scientists that masterminded the soundtrack to game-changing dystopian anime Akira - and with whom the sound, tuning and breakneck speed of Balinese gamelan has become indelibly entwined.

Reflecting the desires of the era to reach beyond Japan’s borders, many of the soundtracks featured were commissioned for narratives set in distant lands or alternative worlds. There’s violinist and composer Norihiro Tsuru’s ‘Farsighted Person’, written for The Heroic Legend of Arslān, set in ancient Persia; Yas-Kaz’s own ‘Hei (Theme of Shikioni)’, for period sci-fi manga & anime series Peacock King - Spirit Warrior; and two tracks - Tassili N’Ajjer and Fiesta Del Fuego - from Yoichiro Yoshikawa’s soundtrack to NHK’s proto-Planet Earth series The Miracle Planet.

Elsewhere, pioneering children’s TV composer Chumei Watanabe’s ‘Fushigi Song’ (performed by a vocal group Korogi ‘72) offers a trippy and infectious groove with sonic similarities to Don Cherry’s ‘Brown Rice’; little-known jazz-funk library group Columbia Orchestra showcase the best of Tokyo’s session musicians on ‘Hearts Beats - Theme for Andrew Glasgow’; before lawyer-turned-composer Kan Ogasawara closes out the compilation with a dramatic flourish on ‘Gishin Anki’.

Following on from Time Capsule’s acclaimed deep-dive into the world of manga & anime synth-pop in 2022, this vinyl only collection is set to broaden and diversify an understanding of how soundtracks shaped the sound of new age music in Japan for a generation.

Tracklist
A1: Koorogi '73 - Fushigi Song 04:50
A2: Yas-Kaz - Hei (Shiki Oni No Theme) 04:40
A3: Yoishiro Yoshikawa - Tassili N'Ajjer 03:30
A4: Norihiro Tsuru - Farsighted Person 04:58

B1: Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Kaneda 03:36
B2: Yoishiro Yoshikawa - Fiesta Del Fuego 03:40
B3: Columbia Orchestra - Heart Beats -Theme for ANDREW GLESGOW- 03:30
B4: Kan Ogasawara - Gishin Anki 05:05
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TV, Anime & Manga New Age Soundtracks 1984-1993

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