First off,
I will just come clean by stating that I was never a fan
of Geinoh Yamashirogumi's work on Akira. It's a
very unique and distinctive score, I will give him that,
but as a standalone experience I felt a number of the
cues held the soundtrack back. Regardless of his efforts,
though, this release from the UK based Demon Records is
unfathomably poor. Contrary to what one would imagine
this release to be, it's actually a "radio drama"
for the movie. In other words it contains sound effects,
dialogue and music directly from the film. The first track
does have some actual isolated music, after a cumbersome
30 second segment of dead space, but it ends up being
the only track on the CD that can boast that. This seems
particularly shady given that the back of the release
makes no mention of this at all, nor does the cover insert.
To add insult to injury, even for fans of "radio
dramas", this disc is only a scant 43 minutes long
for a 124 minute film. So rather then trying to convey
the story, this disc just slaps on a few scenes in four
tracks. Why Demon Records didn't bother to include more
parts from the film, to at least flesh out this disc's
runtime, is beyond me, although it does add weight to
the probability that this was a very rushed and half hearted
attempt. Suffice to say, one is probably best off avoiding
this release and going for the numerous other CDs, ones
with ten tracks, that have the complete score.
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