Take 5

A night with Hisaishi

Its amazing how much good stuff you find when you're trying to procrastinate from doing work. At least finding these beauts was a more productive use of time than opening and closing the refridgerator door. (Don't deny it, we all do it when we're stuck at home)

I managed to stumble upon these beauties recently - had been using Mich's imeen playlist for background music while working on the nevervending stream of assignments. Curiosity piqued, I decided to google imeen and hisaishi. Lo and behold, found these.

I guess the highlight is really the 2008 studio ghibli concert ("Celebrating 25 years of Studio Ghibli") video clips. I've always wanted to play in a concert where the audience could watch the corresponding movie clip in the backdrop. Isn't it wonderful to be able to play the music both the audience and you love? At least we've got something close to that in Xpose.

This is for the ponyo fans


A crowd pleaser, Totoro. Miyazaki actually appears at the end. To fans in the stadium, it must be like Disney fans meeting Walt in the flesh.


My wife's personal favourites, Porco Rosso and Kiki

The titular lead bears a remarkable resemblance (in mannerisms and, well stuff other than mannerisms) to a good friend of mine.


A lovely tale about a young girl learning to be a witch


Of course, if you are more acid jazz inclined these will be a treat too. Was thinking of buying this cd, but way way too ex.

[Album] V.A. - The Best of Jazzin for Ghibli [2008.12.03]

Lastly, for the overt and closet techno-bengs and lians, heres a nice spin on ghibli tunes.

[Album] Daishi Dance - the Ghibli set

posted by leo @ 10:32 AM