• Joe Hisaishi Kiki’s Delivery Service Image Album LP, Studio Ghibli Records TJJA-10020
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Joe Hisaishi – Kiki’s Delivery Service: Image Album LP (First Vinyl Edition, Studio Ghibli Records, Japan Import TJJA-10020)

Joe Hisaishi – Kiki’s Delivery Service: Image Album LP (First Vinyl Edition, Studio Ghibli Records, Japan Import TJJA-10020)

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Joe Hisaishi's image album for Kiki's Delivery Service (1989), on vinyl for the first time from Studio Ghibli Records. Written before the film score, it turns Hayao Miyazaki's idea for the setting, "somewhere in Europe, around the Mediterranean," into 12 bright, breezy instrumentals, and many of the themes carried into the final soundtrack. Newly remastered, with new jacket artwork. Japanese pressing, new.

  • First time on vinyl. Originally released in 1989; this 2020 edition was the album's LP debut.
  • Newly remastered, with new jacket art. Prepared specially for this vinyl release.
  • The sketches behind the Kiki score. Themes from this album recur throughout the finished soundtrack.
  • Official Studio Ghibli Records vinyl. Catalog number TJJA-10020.

About the album

As he did on Nausicaä, Castle in the Sky and Totoro, Joe Hisaishi began Kiki's Delivery Service with an image album: music written before the film was finished, to capture its world and characters. Miyazaki's brief was a seaside town "somewhere in Europe, around the Mediterranean," and Hisaishi answered with sunny, European-flavored pieces for Kiki's mother's broom, the town at night, Tombo, Jiji and Lily, and the bakery window where Kiki finds her place. Released in April 1989, three months before the film, it captures the score in its earliest form. In 2020, Studio Ghibli Records remastered it and released it on vinyl for the first time, alongside the Kiki soundtrack and the Porco Rosso albums.

Tracklist

Side A

  1. Mother's Broom (かあさんのホウキ)
  2. Pickup Street (ナンパ通り)
  3. The Town at Night (町の夜)
  4. I Think I'll Be Fine (元気になれそう)
  5. A Date by the Sea (渚のデイト)
  6. Windy Hill (風の丘)

Side B

  1. Tombo (トンボさん)
  2. Lily and Jiji (リリーとジジ)
  3. The World Is So Big (世界って広いわ)
  4. The Bakery Window (パン屋さんの窓)
  5. A Gust of Wind (突風)
  6. A Sunlit Alley (木洩れ陽の路地)

Release details

Composer Joe Hisaishi (久石譲)
Title Kiki's Delivery Service: Image Album (魔女の宅急便 イメージアルバム)
Label Studio Ghibli Records / Tokuma Japan
Catalog No. TJJA-10020
Barcode 4988008087215
Format 12" LP, 33⅓ RPM, new mastering, new jacket artwork
Country Japan (import)
Released March 2020, first vinyl edition (original album: April 10, 1989)
Film Kiki's Delivery Service (魔女の宅急便), 1989, dir. Hayao Miyazaki
Genre Film Score, Anime Soundtrack, Instrumental
Condition New

More of Hisaishi's image albums for Miyazaki: Nausicaä Image Album and My Neighbor Totoro Image Song Album.

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