![]() ![]() “The Girl Who Fell From The Sky,” along with the equally beautiful themes to Nausicaä and 1997’s fan-favorite Princess Mononoke, is Hisaishi at his most John Williams. Though he didn’t abandon his love of minimalism altogether-the music still retains a hint of small, tender yearning-Hisaishi’s early symphony scores are his most grand and traditional. The music for Castle in the Sky, Miyazaki’s 1986 Nausicaä follow-up, was originally written on synthesizers, but later Hisaishi was commissioned to rework his music with a symphony orchestra to make the film more appealing to audiences outside Japan. The open, soaring strings heard in the ‘Ihojin No Yaiba’ battle theme are a real highlight, and the film’s main theme features a beautiful, evocative flute melody answered by full. Miyazaki and Hisaishi have been close friends and collaborators ever since, with the film’s success inspiring the launch of Studio Ghibli. Leading Japanese composer Naoki Sat composed a ravishing orchestral score for the 2007 anime film Sword of the Stranger. In 1983, Hisaishi and Hayao Miyazaki met through a mutual friend who suggested that Miyazaki hire Hisaishi to write the score for his second film, 1984’s post-apocalyptic fantasy Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. He also wrote music for the popular Ni no Kuni video game series and for his own film, 2001’s Quartet. Hisaishi also composed the music for many of Takeshi Kitano’s best films, which, compared to the kid-friendly My Neighbor Totoro, are ultra violent and nihilist. Coming from an experimental background, Hisaishi also has an impressive solo career dappling in minimalism, electronic, and European and Japanese classical, all of which you can hear in his film work. ![]() The frequent comparison of Hisaishi to John Williams, the western equivalent of a master film composer with close ties to a popular director, only hints at the full range of Hisaishi’s skills and accomplishments. And after the success of 1984’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Hisaishi’s collaboration and friendship with Miyazaki propelled him to international fame outside of Japan. ![]() As his career began to boom, he took up the stage name Joe Hisaishi, which was inspired by Quincy Jones (the kanji for “Hisaishi” reads like “Kuishi,” which sounds close to “Quincy”). Sagisu is currently the president of P Productions an anime and. His early discovery of electronic music, Yellow Magic Orchestra, and American minimalism had a profound effect on his writing as he began to compose music that blended, rather than categorized, all his varied influences. Shiro Sagisu (born August 29, 1957) is a famous Japanese music producer, composer and orchestrator. Born in Nakano, Japan in 1950 as Mamoru Fujisawa, Hisaishi has played music nearly all his life, initially studying at Tokyo’s renowned Kunitachi College of Music. ![]()
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