From: Carl_Horn@library.tmc.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: Honneamise BGM
Date: 14 Oct 92 14:27:00 GMT
To: anime-l@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU

This has been reposted because of several recent enquiries. Nikaku
Animart, which should carry, or should be able to order, either the
Honneamise CD set, the Honneamise 2-LD special edition, or the seperate
soundtrack albums, is located at 615 N. 6th Street, San Jose,
California, 95112. If you send them a first-class stamp, they'll send
you a catalog. Their phone number is (408) 971-2822.

Of course, I have all this on wax...I once listened to the Honneamise
Original Soundtrack six times in a row while driving up Highway 1 at
night (I'm not sure whether that should be regarded as a boast, or a
desperate cry for help).

--Carl Horn


"Those who dream by day/Are cognizant of many things which escape/Those
who dream only by night."

                     --Edgar Allen Poe (not Edogawa Rampo).

"I'll OTAKUIZE the entire human race!"

                     --Kubo, OTAKU NO VIDEO 1985


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Date: 8-20-92  10:21am
From: Carl Horn:ADMIN:HAM-TMCL
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I would guess that the 4-disc CD set contains: 1.) the original
soundtrack, about a 38-minute album, composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto et al.
2.) and 3.) the "drama album," a Japanese concept which is the complete
audio track of the film, i.e., dialogue, music, sound effects--the
works, 4.) the "image sketch" EP, which was originally released as part
of a limited pressing of 5,000--this consists of Sakamoto's "rough
drafts" for the four basic tracks that the soundtrack is built upon--
this is about 14 min. long. Track #4 is a version of the Royal Space
Force anthem, in which Sakamoto himself joins in the chorus, indicating
why even Iggy Pop will outshine him in the vocals category.

Why am I only guessing at this? Because I've already bought all this
stuff on LP, jacked for my bills by the ruthless Sixth Street posse.
As far as I know, those albums represent all soundtrack releases from
The Wings Of Honneamise. I must give props to Books Nippan, however, for
their "It's Crazy Honneamise Days!" sale at AnimExpo. I highly
recommend that any semi-serious fan of Honneamise, or any who understand
that CD stands for the Certain Death of album-cover art, purchase the LP
edition of the Honneamise Drama Album at Books Nippan's new sale price.
It is a double-album jacket that has a shot of the rocket's engines on
the front, embossed with a gold seal and the legend "The Wings Of
Honneamise: The Royal Space Force" in the script of Honneamano up front;
on the back is the royal seal of Honneamano-Jikhean-Minhadan; on the
inside is the "Rennaisance" map of Honneamise's world.

But wait! You also get...The freebies included with the LPs were,
respectively: 1.) original soundtrack, a poster showing a fanciful
overview of the port city in Honneamano where Space Force HQ is located,
and the rocket gantry; this is the same picture that's behind Leiqunni
and Shiro on the album cover--this is a little smaller than the average
anime poster, 2.) drama album, a floppy 33 1/3 single containing some
very odd "leftover" bits of music from the film, namely, the "alien
country music" that is playing on the radio in the General's office
(right after Shiro begins training) and the backgrownd crowd noise and
loudspeaker music that is playing in the red-light district when Shiro
first encounters Leiquinni, plus a poster about 1' by 2' in pastel tones
which shows artifacts from Honneamise's world along with "commentary" in
the Honneamano script, and 3.) "image sketch" album, a small poster
(about legal-size) showing a worm's eye-view sketch of the rocket, over
a montage of images from the film and English-text filler.

I don't know whether any of these items are included in the CD boxed
set. Oh, prarie shit--I'll probably end up getting it anyway.

But wait! There's more! After all that, you STILL would not have all the
music from the film. The only way to make your collection complete is to
get the Honneamise LD set that was released last year. About 70 minutes
of it is devoted to still shots of Honneamise's production art, with the
audio track containing all variations of the music that appeared in the
film--except for one, "Remember Me Again," the song that was playing in
the bar where the Space Force discuss their prospects. So, you would
have to hook up your tape deck to your LD player, and record from there.

--Carl Horn

Thanks again, Bruce!







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