Harakiri uses the same ingredients of Cage-ian modern compositional techniques and Japanese folklore to an almost equally stunning effect. The other four much briefer entries are more conventional film scores, with The Inheritance venturing into Ellington-like areas. This volume is a great place to start your quest and essential listening for anyone who ever lent an ear to Dumitrescu, or Stockhausen's 60s output. Frank van den Elzen. This volume is probably the most instantly rewarding of the batch and makes for a great listening experience start to finish.
All scores here employ a similar tactic and are homogenic in atmosphere.
Takemitsu's use of drones, silences, and his characteristic tonal approach and liquidy percussional spurts are at their captivating best. Samurai Spy harks back at the style of Masaru Satoh's Yojimbo score for Kurosawa, while Banished Orin is one of Takemitsu's most sublime large orchestral works for film. Frank van den Elzen. In the Realm of the Senses , is an explicit movie about a gruesome crime of passion that the puritan American sensors would rate XXX if only they knew about it. In the next two early-70 scores you hear Takemitsu dipping his conducting stick in lysergic acid.