溝口肇が手掛けたアニメ映画『Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade』のサウンドトラックが、ついにヴァイナル化。WRWTFWW Recordsからの限定リリースで、LPはエミール・ベルリナー・スタジオでカッティングされ、重量感ある350gsmスリーブに収められている。

監督は『ゴースト・イン・ザ・シェル』『パトレイバー2』『天使のたまご』などを手掛けた小浦宏之（Production I.G.所属）、脚本は押井守が担当。冷徹で緊張感漂うディストピア世界を描く物語に呼応するように、溝口肇のチェロとオーケストレーションが暗く美しい音響世界を構築。『赤ずきん』をモチーフにしたテーマを軸に、クラシカルなメロディ、オーケストラ・アンビエント、緊迫感のある弦楽が絡み合い、映画の持つドラマ性をヴァイナルでも余すことなく体感できる。

アニメ音楽やサウンドトラック、クラシカル・アンビエント、ダークで壮大な音世界を愛するリスナーに最適。これまでヴァイナル化されることのなかった名盤が手に入るチャンスだ。

A1. A Monologue
A2. Jin-Roh - Main Theme - Opening Version
A3. Dark Star
A4. Sting
A5. Mad Black
A6. Damp
A7. Gray Black
A8. Blue Clouds
A9. Silence & Wind
A10. Fragrance Rain
A11. Latest Flame
A12. Curse
A13. Pride
A14. Unit One
B1. Long Destiny
B2. The Force
B3. Keel
B4. Angel
B5. Shadow Of Rainbow
B6. Seal
B7. The Top
B8. Grace ~ Jin-Roh - Main Theme ~ Omega

WRWTFWW Records is overjoyed to present the first ever vinyl release for the outstanding soundtrack of 1999 Japanese action-political-thriller anime Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade by Hajime Mizoguchi. The epic full-lenght album is available as a limited-edition LP cut at Emil Berliner Studios and housed in a heavyweight 350gsm sleeve.

Legendary animation film Jin-Roh was penned by Palme d’Or and Leone d’Oro award winning filmmaker, television director and writer Mamoru Oshii whose filmography includes Ghost in the Shell, Patlabor 2: The Movie, and Angel’s Egg – critically acclaimed works praised worldwide, notably by luminaries such as James Cameron, Steven Spielberg and The Wachowskis. The film was directed by leading studio Production I.G. affiliate Hiroyuki Okiura (Record of the Lodoss War, A Letter to Momo…)

The film’s score, courtesy of famed anime and tv score composer, cellist and arranger Hajime Mizoguchi, evokes the dystopian world in which Jin-Roh takes place and captures the Little Red Riding Hood theme that carries the story – a dark, atmospheric, and immensely emotional soundscape that takes you on a grand and immersive journey and stays with you forever. It blends classical, orchestrated ambient, and poignant melodies carried by ominous strings.

This new project by WRWTFWW Records follows previous Japanese soundtracks from the catalogue: Ghost in the Shell, Patlabor 2, Evil Dead Trap, Violent Cop and precedes the upcoming release of Takeshi Kitano’s Sonatine soundtrack by Joe Hisaishi.

Points of interests

For fans of classical, ambient, soundtracks, anime, manga, strings, dark and atmospheric soundscapes, Ghost in the Shell, Patlabor, epic journeys, James Cameron, big emotions, soundtracks that were never released on vinyl until…today!

First ever vinyl release for the soundtrack of acclaimed 1999 anime Jin-Roh!