Kenji Kawai - Ghost In The Shell (Original Soundtrack) [Limited Edition Lp + 7” + Obi + Silver Foil + 24 Page Booklet]

Release Date: 30th June 2017

Limited edition LP + 7” + OBI + Silver Foil + Extensive 24-page liner notes booklet, 350g sleeve, Black Inners, Authorised Official Original Soundtrack! - The first ever OFFICIAL vinyl release of the soundtrack for Mamoru Oshii’s legendary science fiction anime film GHOST IN THE SHELL (1995). - LP + Bonus 7inch cut from the original master reels at Emil Berliner Studios, official Ghost in the Shell artwork with sliver gilt printing, Japanese obi, extensive liner notes.

We Release Whatever The Fuck We Want Records is thrilled and honored to announce the first ever official vinyl pressing of the soundtrack for Mamoru Oshii’s critically acclaimed and all around legendary science fiction anime film GHOST IN THE SHELL (1995), adapted from Masamune Shirow’s groundbreaking manga series of the same name. Cut from the original master reels at Emil Berliner Studios (formerly the in-house recording department of renowned classical record label Deutsche Grammophon), the album comes as a LP accompanied by a bonus one-sided 7″ housed in official Ghost in the Shell artwork sleeve with silver gilt printing and a Japanese obi, and contains extensive 24-page liner notes. The haunting score is composed by Kenji Kawai, one of Japan’s most celebrated soundtrack composers, alongside Joe Hisaishi and Ry?ichi Sakamoto, whose work includes Hideo Nakata’s Ring (1998) and Ring 2 (1999), Death Note (2006), Hong Kong films Seven Swords by Tsui Hark (2005) and Ip Man by Wilson Yip (2008), and countless others. Kawai’s compositions see ancient harmonies and percussions uncannily mesh with synthesized sounds of the modern world to convey a sumptuous balance between folklore tradition and futuristic outlook.

a1. ?I - Making Of Cyborg

a2. Ghosthack

a3. Puppetmaster

a4. Virtual Crime

a5. ?II - Ghost City

b1. Access

b2. Nightstalker

b3. Floating Museum

b4. Ghostdive

b5. ?III - Reincarnation

Bonus 7″

a1. ??? ?????! (See You Everyday)