Adventure Of Chatran
Adventure Of Chatran
表演者: Ryuichi Sakamoto
条形码: 4988034201333
专辑简介
The Adventures of Chatran (soundtrack)
Koneko Monogatari (A Kitten's Story)
This album goes by all three titles. (some new fans get confused when they see one name and then see another, yes there is only one version of this) Light jazzy swing. Sakamoto produced but did not write all the tracks. The film came out overseas retitled as Milo and Otis without any of Sakamoto's score!!
It takes real guts to buy an expensive cd with a cute kitten on the cover. Might be too light-hearted for some. The film was a big hit in Japan and Sakamoto won major awards for the score.
A very cheerful soundtrack to a very cheerful film by Masanori Hata, "The Adventures Of Chatran" contains a selection of upbeat pieces charting the adventures of a sweet little kitten during its discovery of the world. Not very profound stuff but as an album essential for any fan of Ryuichi Sakamoto.
He did not write all the tracks - nrs. 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10 are orchestral tracks written by three other Japanese contributors, two of whom would participate again with Sakamoto in one of his next projects "Aile de Honneamise". These tracks however blend in perfectly with the tracks by Sakamoto who also uses the orchestra but adds his own piano and electronics. "Self Portrait" makes a strangely appropriate reappearance from his earlier album "Illustrated Musical Encyclopaedia" but the rest is all new music. Track 7 "Watasuge No Hara" is one of those great slow Sakamoto movie-pieces and at the end Keiko Yoshinaga puts in a fantastic vocal performance in what can only be described as the perfect pop-song: "Koneko Monogatari".
Track 11, the only one by Sakamoto to sort of describe the abrupt physical movements of cats, points back musically to that other slightly jumpy piece immortalising cats, "M.A.Y. In The Backyard". Apparently, Modoki and Asura were two of Sakamoto's cats, who were sometimes being pestered by another one named Yanayatsu.
The movie has since been released on DVD in Japan (PCBC-50120) along with a making-of documentary and other extras. It is a release well worth buying, not only because it's quite a unique and funny film only featuring real animals, but also because it contains plenty of unreleased music by Sakamoto.