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One Summer's Day
Nostalgia
1 One Summer's Day (from Spirited Away)  
2 Kiki's Delivery Service (from Kiki?s Delivery Service)  
3 Summer (from Kikujiro)  
4 il Porco Rosso (from Porco Rosso)  
5 Madness (from Porco Rosso)  
6 Water Traveller (from Water Traveler - Samurai Kids)  
7 Oriental Wind  
8 Silent Love (from A Scene at the Sea)  
9 Departures (from Departures)  
10 PRINCESS MONONOKE - Suite (from Princess Mononoke)  
11 The Procession of Celestial Beings (from The Tale of Princess Kaguya)  
12 My Neighbour TOTORO (from My Neighbor Totoro)  
13 Ballade (from BROTHER)  
14 KIDS RETURN (from Kids Return)  
15 Asian Dream Song  
16 Birthday  
17 Innocent (from Castle in the Sky)  
18 Fantasia (for Nausica) (from Nausica of the Valley of the Wind)  
19 HANA-BI (from HANA-BI)  
20 The Wind Forest (from My Neighbor Totoro)  
21 Angel Springs  
22 Nostalgia  
23 Spring  
24 The Wind of Life  
25 Ashitaka and San (from Princess Mononoke)  
26 Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (from Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea)  
27 Cinema Nostalgia  
28 Merry-Go-Round (from Howl's Moving Castle)  
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Joe Hisaishi, the celebrated Japanese composer behind some of the world's best-loved anime films, is releasing a brand new album on 21st February entitled Dream Songs: The Essential Joe Hisaishi – a collection of recordings from the composer himself. That same day, 30 albums from the composer's extensive catalogue will be released on streaming services worldwide for the first time ever. This marks a major milestone for Hisaishi and is the result of an international collaboration between Decca Gold and UMG Japan.

The new album celebrates Hisaishi's diverse and distinguished catalogue of compositions spanning his nearly 40-year career, including his work with acclaimed filmmakers Hayao Miyazaki and ‘Beat' Takeshi Kitano as well as selections from Studio Ghibli classics Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Howl's Moving Castle and more. Hisaishi's first official music video to ‘One Summer's Day' (from Spirited Away) was welcomed by fans, having reached one million views in the first month alone.

  • Studio Ghibli composer Joe Hisaishi is coming to San Francisco / KQED
    Posted At: March 14, 2024 12:00 AM
    Born in Nagano, Japan, Joe Hisaishi started to show his interest in minimal music when he was a student at Kunitachi College of Music and started his career as a contemporary music composer. The presentation of his composition “MKWAJU” in 1981 and the release of his first album “Information” in the subsequent year marked the kickoff of his prolific career as a solo artist. Since then, he has released nearly...
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  • Verve Label Group is feeling particularly animated about Joe Hisaishi's 'A Symphonic Celebration' / HITS daily double
    Posted At: October 10, 2023 12:00 AM
    On 30 March 2023, Deutsche Grammophon announced the signing of an exclusive agreement with Joe Hisaishi, the revered Japanese composer whose work has become synonymous with the magical Studio Ghibli animations of director Hayao Miyazaki. Spanning the full spectrum of Hisaishi’s work as composer, conductor and pianist, the deal will deliver a richly varied range of audio and audiovisual recordings. For his f...
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  • 'A Symphonic Celebration' should give Joe Hisaishi's legion of admirers ample cause for celebration / textura
    Posted At: September 7, 2023 12:00 AM
    textura writes…..Rota and Fellini, Herrmann and Hitchcock, Hisaishi and Miyazaki—three cases of many where composers and directors have formed symbiotic partnerships, each name forever tied to the other in the annals of filmdom. Joe Hisaishi's collaborations with Hayao Miyazaki have been especially fruitful, with the Japanese composer having created soundtracks for the director since their partnership began...
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  • Joe Hisaishi - A Symphonic Celebration makes Australia's ABC - Classic: New Releases
    Posted At: July 10, 2023 12:00 AM
    ABC - Classic: New Releases features this week's newest recordings of classical music from around the world, including music by Joe Hisaishi with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and Rachmaninov's long-time association with the Philadelphia Orchestra.On 30 March 2023, Deutsche Grammophon announced the signing of an exclusive agreement with Joe Hisaishi, the revered Japanese composer whose work has become s...
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  • 'A Symphonic Celebration' provides a long-overdue account of Joe Hisaishi's melodic gifts / Sequenza21/
    Posted At: July 3, 2023 12:00 AM
    Sequenza21/ - Tyran Grillo writes….Many people’s first exposure to the world of Studio Ghibli and its star director, Hayao Miyazaki, was My Neighbor Totoro. For me, it was Laputa: Castle in the Sky. I will never forget my reaction to the opening sequence, during which Sheeta, the sole living heiress of the eponymous all-but-forgotten realm, falls from an airship. As she hurtles toward the earth below, eyes ...
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  • 'Dream Songs' captures Joe Hisaishi's deft fusion of classical with pop song-based melodies / textura
    Posted At: December 11, 2020 12:00 AM

    To these ears, the soundtracks Japanese composer Joe Hisaishi created for Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli classics Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, and Kiki's Delivery Service are so indissolubly bound up in their reception, it's hard to think of the music as a separate entity. To that end, Dream Songs: The Essential Joe Hisaishi does a superb job of enabl...
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  • Dream Songs: The Essential Joe Hisaishi is a 'must have' / textura
    Posted At: July 6, 2020 12:00 AM

    To these ears, the soundtracks Japanese composer Joe Hisaishi created for Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli classics Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, and Kiki's Delivery Service are so indissolubly bound up in their reception, it's hard to think of the music as a separate entity. To that end, Dream Songs: The Essential Joe Hisaishi does a superb job of enabling admirers to do precisely t...
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