• Joe Hisaishi Spirited Away Image Album LP, Studio Ghibli Records TJJA-10027
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Joe Hisaishi – Spirited Away: Image Album LP (First Vinyl Edition, Studio Ghibli Records, Japan Import TJJA-10027)

Joe Hisaishi – Spirited Away: Image Album LP (First Vinyl Edition, Studio Ghibli Records, Japan Import TJJA-10027)

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Joe Hisaishi's image album for Spirited Away (2001), on vinyl for the first time from Studio Ghibli Records. Hisaishi built these 10 pieces from the poem-like image notes Hayao Miyazaki wrote while developing the film, with a range of guest artists performing. It's the first sketch of the music behind Ghibli's most celebrated film. Newly remastered, with new jacket artwork, commentary and liner notes. Japanese pressing, new.

  • First time on vinyl. Released on Japan's Record Day, November 3, 2020, as the album's LP debut.
  • Built from Miyazaki's own notes. Hisaishi composed from the poetic image memos Miyazaki wrote during production.
  • Includes "Ano Hi no Kawa e" and "Chihiro's Waltz." Early versions of themes from the finished film.
  • Remastered, with new jacket art, commentary and liner notes. Catalog number TJJA-10027.

About the album

For Spirited Away, Miyazaki gave Joe Hisaishi something different from a script: short, poem-like notes about the film's world and characters, from the river Chihiro fell into as a child to the bathhouse of the gods and Haku, the white dragon. Hisaishi turned each into a piece of music and brought in a variety of performers, making this one of his most varied image albums. You can hear the film's sound taking shape here, from the gentle "Ano Hi no Kawa e" (To the River of That Day) to "The White Dragon" and "Chihiro's Waltz." In 2020, Studio Ghibli Records remastered the album and released it on vinyl for the first time, alongside the Spirited Away soundtrack and the Howl's Moving Castle albums.

Tracklist

Side A

  1. To the River of That Day (あの日の川へ)
  2. Night Is Coming (夜が来る)
  3. The Gods (神々さま)
  4. The Bathhouse (油屋)
  5. Inhabitants of a Mysterious Land (不思議の国の住人)

Side B

  1. Lonely, Lonely (さみしい さみしい)
  2. Solitude (ソリチュード)
  3. The Sea (海)
  4. The White Dragon (白い竜)
  5. Chihiro's Waltz (千尋のワルツ)

Release details

Composer Joe Hisaishi (久石譲)
Title Spirited Away: Image Album (千と千尋の神隠し イメージ・アルバム)
Label Studio Ghibli Records / Tokuma Japan
Catalog No. TJJA-10027
Barcode 4988008087918
Format 12" LP, 33⅓ RPM, remastered, new jacket artwork, commentary and liner notes
Country Japan (import)
Released November 3, 2020, first vinyl edition (original album: 2001)
Film Spirited Away (千と千尋の神隠し), 2001, dir. Hayao Miyazaki
Genre Film Score, Anime Soundtrack
Condition New

More of Hisaishi's image albums for Miyazaki: Nausicaä Image Album and My Neighbor Totoro Image Song Album. Or the score from the film before: Princess Mononoke Original Soundtrack (2LP).

Why buy from STOKYO

STOKYO is run by DJs and vinyl heads, and we've been importing Japanese records and analog gear since 2004. This LP comes straight from Japan and ships from Los Angeles.

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