Ghost in the Shell music

[Tony Austin]

RE: The Music in Ghost in the Shell

What Japanese form/style of music is Kenji Kawai's? I liked the use
of drums and the ambient choral.

Tony Austin

[Don Kreipke]

(Tony Austin) wrote:

>
>What Japanese form/style of music is Kenji Kawai's? I liked the use
>of drums and the ambient choral.

I don't know how to classify it, but it reminds me of some
of the scary New Age stuff that Patrick O'Hearn has done
(e.g. on the CD "Indigo").

Speaking of scary ... what's that bouncy vocal doing at the
end of the GiTS CD?

It's a really cute tune, but it doesn't exactly match the
mood of the rest of the CD. Maybe it's to relax you after
you've been listening to 40 minutes worth of weird and tense
music? ^_^

Oh, and what about that last track's title? I came up with
"Every Sky See -- See" for the kanji. Is that a way of
saying, "Look at the bright side of things?"

Regards,
Don
dkre...@xray.indyrad.iupui.edu

[Jeffrey P. Gaskell]

Tony Austin (zer...@ix.netcom.com) wrote:

: RE: The Music in Ghost in the Shell

: What Japanese form/style of music is Kenji Kawai's? I liked the use

: of drums and the ambient choral.

: Tony Austin

Have you heard those big Japanese drums they play at festivals? I think
they're called "taiko" drums. Kenji Kawai has done music for Patlabor,
Ranma, Maison Ikkoku, Vampire Princess Miyu to name a few.

--Jeff Gaskell

[The Man]

I actually have the GitS soundtrakc thanks to a friend of mine who went
to Taiwan for a while, but I emailed sonmay (the people that provided the
address and stuff) and asked them what the vocals was. I turns out the
there literally is no translation for the vocals because it is a form of
Buddhist chant...I think my friend said something like it was a chant of
rebirth or something...appropriate for Ghost in the Shell