Gohatto

by Ryuichi Sakamoto

Gohatto cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 10 December 1999
  • Label: Unknown
  • Country: Japan
  • Length: 1:04:50
  • Community rating: 3.67/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Gohatto' is Ryuichi Sakamoto's score for Nagisa Ōshima's film 'Taboo', about a young swordsman in a late-Edo militia. Its restrained piano and ambient arrangements are among Sakamoto's most austere film works.

Genres

Descriptors: ambient, instrumental, piano, minimal, atmospheric

Tracklist

  1. Gohatto (Opening Theme) (2:02)
  2. Souzaburoh (2:04)
  3. Taboos (2:09)
  4. In Bed (2:08)
  5. Execution (2:49)
  6. Match (3:56)
  7. Gate (2:09)
  8. Temple (0:50)
  9. Suggestion (2:08)
  10. Affair (2:48)
  11. Murder (6:17)
  12. Supper (7:14)
  13. Funeral (2:13)
  14. Persuasion (3:46)
  15. Prostitute (2:44)
  16. Assassination (1:22)
  17. Duty (1:38)
  18. Ugetsu (3:54)
  19. Killing (3:06)
  20. Gohatto (End Theme) (5:01)
  21. Gohatto (Piano Version) (4:32)

Credits

  • Masayuki Okamoto - bassoon [fagot]
  • Tamami Tono - sho
  • Asuka Kaneko - strings [section led by]
  • 東野珠実 - sho

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