This CD
contains the score to the 1997 movie Cat's Eye and
features a soundtrack done by "Menya Co.",
which is comprised of Hidehiko Urayama on guitar, Chan-Kohyo
on keyboard and Jia Peng-Fang on the erhu
(a stringed instrument played with a bow). Menya manages
to deliver a fairly unorthodox, almost trance-like at
times, score for the picture. Unfortunately, their efforts
falter to produce even one track that would qualify for
a recommendation. In fact, a number of these cues become
unpleasant quickly, due to repetitive beats or in the
case of
"Memory of Another Side S#103" an ungodly squealing
noise that kicks in around the 3:30 mark and grows increasingly
louder.
The problem is that even cues that start out decently
enough, like
"Red Dragon S#30" or the previously mentioned
"Memory of Another Side S#103", quickly degenerate
as most of the cues are around three through five minutes
in length
and repeatedly outstay their welcome. To be honest, it's
been awhile since a CD has caused me to continuously
hit the "skip" button as often as I did the first time
I was exposed to Cat's Eye.
Thankfully, the disc is not a total bust. The lone saving
grace of this CD is the opening song,
"Cat's Eye - 2000", sung by Anri.
The track has a decent background beat, provided by
Yuichiro Oda, while Anri has a nice singing voice, and
does an excellent job of transitioning from Japanese
to English during the song. It's only fault is a thirty
second segment in the middle where there are no lyrics,
and Oda's music isn't good enough to carry this portion
by itself.
Bottom line, I'm sure somewhere out there is someone
who loves this score, but
I wouldn't be able to fathom why. As mentioned, Anri's
song is pretty nice at least, and people interested could
always pick up this album or the single (FLDF-1636).
Price wise, someone would probably be better off just
locating this disc, as it's still fairly common online.
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