Imaginal Soundtracking 2: 鬼 / The Demon, by Ami Dang, Midori Hirano, 食品まつり a.k.a foodman, Sabiwa, Maher Shalal Hash Baz

Imaginal Soundtracking 2: 鬼 / The Demon

by Ami Dang, Midori Hirano, 食品まつり a.k.a foodman, Sabiwa, Maher Shalal Hash Baz

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Robert Bloemkolk Rescores of largely forgotten films. And I love this because I have written for puppeteers and while this is inspired on Japanese stop motion pictures, I feel deeply connected to the wonderful and often magical music on this record. Favorite track: Midori Hirano: 鬼 / The Demon.

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1.	Ami Dang: 鬼 / The Demon 07:37	buy track
2.	Midori Hirano: 鬼 / The Demon 07:37	buy track
3.	食品まつり a.k.a foodman: 鬼 / The Demon 07:36	buy track
4.	Sabiwa: 鬼 / The Demon 07:35	buy track
5.	Tori Kudo: 鬼 / The Demon 07:36	buy track

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Phantom Limb continues its soundtrack series Imaginal Soundtracking, in which contemporary musicians are invited to re-score existing film pieces, with five new scores to a 1972 stop-motion work by Japanese master puppeteer Kihachiro Kawamoto.

Designed to reframe overlooked or forgotten works of cinema and to offer a new artistic challenge to the contributing musicians, Imaginal Soundtracking acts as a dialogue between the creative minds at play. The second release in the series sees a quintet of highly inventive, wildly varying takes on Japanese stop-motion animation 鬼 [eng: The Demon], created in 1972 by Kihachiro Kawamoto. The film is based on ancient Japanese mythology, telling the story of a demon-possessed mother hiding her true identity from her sons.

Created from traditional bunraku puppetry, painstakingly shot with manual stop-motion, Kawamoto’s film is beautifully expressive. It conjures sorrow, superstition, horror and honour, all uniquely materialised within a delicate and ornate miniature world. Two brothers - hunters - go out into the woods to trap deer, but find a terrifying, demonic presence haunting the darkness. With a macabre sense of humour, the piece ends with a retelling of the legend on scrolling title cards - when people grow old they turn into demons who will devour their own children: “how horrible.”

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