This is the best version that has been created, and we have a movie for it that's how his orchestration was the greatest thing that I've ever seen thank you Jesus for having us
Absolutely. People don't recognize the power of the score because of the hacked up movie that was distributed in the U.S. You get a better sense of the emotion of this score when you watch the original movie-Gojira.
This took me way back my childhood. The music was so perfectly orchestrated that I could actually see the movies play when I close my eyes to appreciate this musical piece. Well done. Absolutely loved it. Wish I was there live to experience it.
Ifukube family of Akira Ifukube had been Japanese traditional religion priest of one of the most oldest and more than 2000 years histolical Izumo shrine. And Akira grew up with the people of Ainu indigenous people in Japan. So that Akira was not only a Japanese ethnic musician but also the one who had ancient sensibilities before the establishment of Japan. Can you hear it in his music? 伊福部家は長年に亘り出雲の神官を務めた家柄で、伊福部昭氏は北海道に於いてアイヌの人々と親しんだ幼年時代を過ごしています。ですので、日本の民族性を持った作曲家という範疇には留まらず、日本が成立する前の古代の感性がその音楽の中に聴こえませんか?
I think Ifukube would be incredibly proud of you, his compilation finally receiving the global attention it truly deserves. Thank you for undertaking this project, I'm so happy this got brought to the states.
You can hear echos of the Toho scores in the recent American Godzilla flicks. When Godzilla breaks out of the ice to confront Ghidorah, you hear his theme. You also heard the Japanese navy music with the American military shots in that movie.
A superb work by a Japanese legend. Godzilla and mates live, thanks to this marvellous symphonic work, which is derived from various motifs Ifukube composed for the Toho films.
The theme from 10:09 just hits me in the feels EVERY time! Reminds me of watching the movies as a kid and loving the awful English dub and being in awe at the action scenes with miniatures! Really wish Bear would have done a better tribute to this piece of music in the recent movies.
In this case music tells it like it is in this wonderful world of ours. War, terror, and many forms of mayhem seem to reign supreme . . . until kingdom comes. I admire some aspects of Japanese culture. This is one of them.