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Review

“Laputa: Castle In The Sky” is a Japanese animated film. It has a magnificent, heavenly main theme, certainly one of the best I've ever heard in any score, very moving, given its best rendition in “The Girl Who Fell from the Sky”, played by a full orchestra. Unfortunately, that's a very short track, and most other tracks are rather short as well. A delightful children's choir version of the main theme (singing Japanese presumably) can be heard in the tracks 7 and 13, a synthesizer version with electronic piano in track 9.

Most other pieces of the score are of slightly-above-average quality, and some remind you that you are listening to an anime score. “A Fun Brawl (Pursuit)” has some driving, brass-dominated action cues.There are some electronics in “A Morning of the Slag Ravine”, “Robot Soldier”, and “Memories of Gondoa”, which are rather average. The latter also contains some very beautiful passages played by the orchestra and a flute. “Sheeta's Decision” features a solo piano. “Laputa: Castle in the Sky” combines electronics and orchestra very well, another wonderful composition.

The music can be strongly recommended because of its highlights. It was re-released as a symphonic suite.

Track Rating

	Title	Time
1	The Girl Who Fell from the Sky	2:25
2	Morning in Slagg's Ravine	3:00
3	A Fun Brawl (Pursuit)	4:27
4	Memories of Gondoa	2:46
5	Discouraged Pazu	1:44
6	Robot Soldier (Resurrection/Rescue)	2:31
7	Carrying You (Chorus Version)	2:05
8	Sheeta's Decision	2:03
9	On the Tiger Moss	2:31
10	An Omen to Ruin	2:17
11	The Sea of Cloud under the Moonlight	2:33
12	Laputa: Castle in the Sky	4:34
13	The Collapse of Laputa	1:57
14	Carrying You	4:07
		39:26

Overall Rating

Related Links

http://looney.physics.sunysb.edu/~daffy/laputa.html

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