Title: TV, Anime & Manga New Age Soundtracks 1984-1993 (Various Artists)
Artist: Various Artists
Label: Time Capsule
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 650245521923
Genre: Pop
Release Date: 2025-05-16
Number of Discs: 1

The percussive new age soundtracks of '80s and early '90s Japanese TV, anime and manga built alternative worlds and pushed boundaries in the process. When Japanese composer Yas-Kaz left Tokyo for Bali in the mid 1970s he had little idea of how influential his trip would become. In studying the storied art of gamelan, the jazz and avant-garde percussionist opened a door to a world of sound and rhythm left behind by the West. The music he and his contemporaries made would become known as new age. It also happened to soundtrack the golden era of anime. Awash with money and with the prerogative to entertain the burgeoning middle classes, anime in the 1980s experienced a creative and commercial boom. Not constricted by generic expectations, production houses such as the now renowned Studio Ghibli were able to experiment liberally with both form and content. And with it came the space for composers to be similarly adventurous.

Tracks:
1.1 Korogi '73 - Fushigi Song
1.2 Yas-Kaz - Hei (Theme of Shikioni)
1.3 Yoichiro Yoshikawa - Tassili N'ajjer
1.4 Norihiro Tsuru - Farsighted Person
1.5 Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Theme of Kaneda
1.6 Yoichiro Yoshikawa - Fiesta Del Fuego
1.7 Columbia Orchestra - Heart Beats / Theme for Andrew Glesgow
1.8 Kan Ogasawara - Gishin Anki

Various Artists: TV, Anime & Manga New Age Soundtracks 1984-1993 (Various Artists) - VINYL LP

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