 |
Title |
| The Ring - The Spiral |
| International Title |
| Ring
/ The Spiral |
Music
By:
Kenji Kawai
Record Label: Pony Canyon
| Running
Time: 64:08 |
Discs:
1 |
| Release:
January 1998 |
CD
Number: PCCR-00270 |
|
| Comments |
This CD contains
the soundtrack to the 1998 double feature Ring
and its original sequel The Spiral. Overall this
disc is a very interesting mix of music, although it doesn't
mesh together all that well. On the upside is Kenji Kawai's
wonderfully atmospheric score for Ring, which
is found here on tracks 2-5. Of these, the "Genes"
track is probably the stand out cue, as it has a great
build up and is slightly more action oriented than the
other themes. Tracks six and seven are ones that were
"inspired" by the film, and are done by the
UK based group Juno Reactor, who is probably best known
for their work on the Matrix series. All in all,
the two tracks have a nice techno type of flow to them,
although they don't really fit well with Kawai's orchestrations
and tend to overstay their welcome as each track is over
seven minutes.
Following this is a selection of themes from The Spiral,
starting with track eight. For those who have never heard
La Finca and Yoshihiro Ike's score for the movie before,
it's about as different as one can get from the score
for Ring. Most of the tracks here go for a kind
of romantic jazz angle, which isn't unpleasant to listen
to but cues like "Portrait of Love" sound a
little cheesy in their execution. "Kizuna" is
probably the best of these; it gets bogged down a little
during the "backwards vocal" part in the middle,
but the rest of the cue is well done. The disc finishes
with the group HIIH's song "Distorted Clock,"
which is a decent piece from them although they tend to
do better with the " Feels Like Heaven" song
that opens the CD.
For reference, the title of track six appears, in English,
as "Gurdian" more than once in the booklet and
on the back cover. Normally I would use this, although
since this song has been released on other albums correctly
as "Guardian Angel" this has been fixed for
the track listing.
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| Tracks |
- Feels Like "Heaven" (X TRA Soundscape
Mix)
By: HIIH
- A Dissonance Split
- The Cursed Video
- Genes
- Ring
- Guardian Angel
By: Juno Reactor
- Feel the Universe
By: Juno Reactor
- Portrait of Love
By: La Finca, Composer: Yoshihiro
Ike
- Kizuna
By: La Finca, Composer: Yoshihiro
Ike
- Legend of Love
By: La Finca, Composer: Yoshihiro
Ike
- Out of Control
By: La Finca, Composer: Yoshihiro
Ike
- Distorted Clock
By: HIIH
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