"Forgotten" from Midori (Shôjo Tsubaki) - Soundtrack Reconstruction
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ก.ย. 2024
- This is my attempt at doing a by ear rerecording of the song that plays during the finale of Hiroshi Harada’s 1992 underground classic, Midori. With the initial controversy Midori faced on release, it was said that the masters of the film’s soundtrack were destroyed along with most known 16mm prints. The score was written by J.A. Seazer, an artist who already gained a notable following in the art scene from his collaborations with Shūji Terayama and his Tenjo Sajiki troupe.
This technically isn’t the first time I attempted reconstructing Seazer’s soundtrack, before this I did a set of tracks in early 2017 based on the film’s score as part of my now defunct Vaulting School side-project. I was working in Garageband at the time (a software with a much smaller range in synthesizers), and the reconstruction of the ending theme especially took a blow from my limitations. My deconstruction of the track at the time was also inaccurate, I didn’t put as much time into it as I did the themes accompanying the mutation scene or the opening credits. With this new version I spent a morning to a late afternoon piecing things together note by note, seeing how the song was exactly written to get the closest reconstruction possible, this track was the final result. All the talk of accuracy aside, I couldn't help but put a slight improvisation in the mix by the very end, as the track didn't exactly conclude as much as it faded out with the scene.
Yes, I am slightly obsessed.
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This movie may be really disturbing but you can’t deny that the music is fantastic!
So true ❤️
Yes.
Yeah and I love it
This song actually played when Midori having a mental breakdown, this is one of the most eerie music that I listen to and I love it, it actually impacts negative emotions
i wish there could be more movies like shojo tsubaki, this kind of art should be appreciated too
People always say that the movie is disturbing and all. It is, indeed. However, I always found comfort in the uncanny. Maybe because, despite having a way more peaceful childhood than Midori, I always felt lonely and abandoned. This very scene where the members of the carnival laugh at her reminds me of a time when I had not only my life ruined by my so-called friends but was abandoned by them. It was the exact time I found this movie.
Same. I honestly didn't expect to like the movie, because everyone was making it out to be a tasteless, fetishistic rape compilation, but I actually ended up finding it rather profound
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Midori's ending is the portrait of all the lifes of miserable people after ww2. They kept living in the expectation that everything would get better some day, and many of them died in poverty, agony and loneliness, hoping to find a new life in the middle of pure destruction and death...
doesn't shoujo tsubaki take place before ww2? i always thought it was early 1930s japan
This story takes place prior to WWII.
@@rabidrabbitshuggers I meant to say before >_
Fds
@@NEScRETRO It takes place in Showa Era Japan during the 1920s
the soundtrack and ambiance of the film are so hauntingly beautiful in a way. its like a nightmarish fever dream filled with cherry petals
Bro what. a puppy gets eaten in the film..
This soundtrack reeks of negative human emotions.
I literally get flashbacks if I ever listen to one of the songs
I like how a different instrumentation evokes a different feeling. This version sounds rather eerie and mysterious compared to the original one, reeking tragedy and emptiness, reminiscing death. Very good version and very nice work!
Great stuff. That final theme stuck in my head for a while. Really thick atmosphere and depressing leitmotiv. Great job on replicating such an intense piece of music.
Nice work, I appreciate this. Shame we'll likely never hear the original soundtrack
This is better tho...
One day. I hope
you can find it on 9anime.to but that is illegal
What do you mean whith original?
@@dhsf5937 the original recordings of the music used in the film (without the sfx or voices), aparently it was released in france but it was very rare and only a small quantity was produced
This score is a constant anxiety.
The music is depressing and well composed, I feel bad for Midori,
Unironically one of my favorite anime movies
I find it really interesting how even if a there is a similar consistent beat throughout the whole song it still doesnt fail to evoke an eerie feeling. Maybe it's because of how those background clock-like sounds (sorry i dont know music terminology) become faster and faster and then at the end it's just a weak sound until it finally fades? Even if you havent seen the movie or at least the final scene the song still sounds kind of creepy
Also do you have any idea of what this music genre is called??
I thought myself invulnerable, but parts of this "Whom do you trust" actually affected me...
This really hits the same way the song at the end hits... christ, im still getting myself put back together after watching the movie today, finally...
I was looking for the original music and I found out the originals are nowhere to be found. I like your recreation tho! it gives off the same vibes and the synth sounds pretty similar. Nice work!
wow, that's fantastic
The name itself forgotten even makes it more depressing.
I love this Soundtrack Reconstruction, I hope sometime the original BGM is released or that you can do a great job recreating it like you did with this one, it was fantastic!
😢: Simplemente, ¡Bellísimo! 👏💐
I've become obsessed with this thing too. The soundtrack really is fantastic. I wish it was more accessible as an American to explore the works of Suehiro Maruo and eroguro in general. So many things that got published over there just never really got imported here in any real capacity and it's such a shame.
The lost track... Thank you for your interpretation.
thank you for making this, it's truly beautiful, i kept on looking for the soundtrack and the destription really put on a light onto everything...
Downright my favorite song heard in the movie. This sounds like what it would be like in either full quality or a modern day composure of it. I love the final scene so much because with the way I interpret it I can relate to it to an extent.
You did such an amazing job!
Truly Beautiful, Dark and Amazing Song😻💖👍🏻, I Truly Love It So Much! 😻💖🍰🧁☕🌸🩸💀🌸🎵🫶🏻👏🏻
Poor Midori... that's all I can say
My heart has never beat like this...
JA Seazer is one of my favorite composers, and his music for Midori might be some of his best work. You did an amazing job on this one.
Have you tried to reconstruct the whole soundtrack of the movie?
I’ve had plans to. While some songs are a bit too deeply mixed into the sound design to fully make out, I do have intentions of recording the other prominent themes (Midori’s theme, the mutation sequence track, etc).
@@theeyeodyssey someone said they had a copy of the ost, but there's been nothing uploaded from it. They did rip the mutation sequence's song from the film, though
@@gynsathe channel is Pitch Black OST, they haven't uploaded in 2 years though so the likelihood of them putting the soundtrack up at this point is pretty low :^(
High respect for putting this much effort on it, it's a great reconstruction
I gotta say the character design in this movie is incredible for how messed up it is
This has a berzerk feel to it.
The hopelessness one faces
Wiill you ever release this in spotify/soundcloud or for download? I'm so thankful with you for reconstructing what's most likely the most well known of Seazer's works.
Hauntingly Beautiful
Thanks for making this. I used it in my latest project: a Shouju Tsubaki End Scene - Trap Metal Remix.
I mentioned u in the description because this reconstruction was very helpful.
The movie is fucking horrifying but God damn the sound track is amazing 😭
I have recently seen the anime and manga...it resembled me a nightmare...
Imagine this in a guitar remix it would be so cool
sick beat dawg
la peli 10/10 y este sountrack 100/10, crea el ambiente perfecto para la trama
Dude, PLEASE put these on spotify/soundcloud, and PLEASE tackle on the Lullaby for Death soundtrack.
Makes me feel horrified for my young niece. that's why i've had a discussion with my sister about becoming her guardian if anything happens.
this soundtrack give me a weird feeling, I kinda like it.
Buen trabajo bro
The comments are really deep. But its totally cool🤚
crazy trap sample
A Heavy and Melodic track
It still vexes me when I try to ascertain whether this film is actually good or not. To me, it's an experience like no other but it might be out of pure shock factor rather than genius design
Nice!
I didn't understand the ending... is everything was a prank of the magician
Theres many theories but i think when he got killed, Midori had gone fully insane from not being able to find him and thinking he was trying to hurt her like the others. So she started seeing things. Thays my take
@@AzenHawke you saw there was an image of Midori on the apple near the magician, I think he casted some kind of a spell on her at that moment
@@anobash nah i think the magician didnt cancel the illusion from the start when Midori met his family. Its all an illusion. The moment when the circus says bye to Midori is an illusion to make Midori feel better. The circus members are already killed by the magician. And since the magician died the illusion cant be canceled and Midori will forever be trapped in this little world forever
@@AzenHawke well this is someone else's theory check out in this video th-cam.com/video/6ohwVuUckkE/w-d-xo.html
@@zendrox.von-laixer9192 I thought about it aswell actually, but another take is more good-looking for me
Thanks!
Can I download this song on Spotify or Deezed? I'm in love...
this is good for a cover, but I would not call this a reconstruction since the instruments are different, going by the lead instrument, and the rythm of the bass channel during the last section of the song.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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poor orphan.. 😢
Le falto ser doble nota para sonar igual en la melodía principal, en esta reconstrucción es un C por ejemplo, pero en realidad debería ser C-C
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Nice try I like it
Idk why this sounds like lavender town
someone please make an awsome beat out of the beggening prod it would be so good ive looked everyware for something like it
where can i find the sheets of this song?
綺麗な (≧▽≦)
XD
はい
People in the comments: Great! Very depressive.
Me: Uhh... _:v
bom sei que animes de terror São perturbadores mais as thila sonora e bem legal
é essa thila sonora é bem lindo
Eu aprecio o trabalho do criador, pois ele gastou 5 anos trabalhando sozinho na criação da sua obra e usou toda sua economia, mas em geral esse filme é bem ruinzinho.
Sim, acho que o criador poderia ter feito uma história melhor pro curta
perturbador
Where can we find the sound track?
PAJA TIME
Thanks but I search the midget massacre scene bass music for many years.
耳コピ…！？
はい！
No shit, at first I thought this movie was overboard retrded but after watching that shit the yokai artstyle, the camera moving animation, & even thr good music aint so bad so i guess 4/10
O tu eres muy sordo, o el tal Seazer era o es un psicópata (contexto no vi ni escuche la película, lo digo desde composición y producción ).
It's funny that you say that. J.A. Seazer is a highly renowned pioneer of psychedelic rock and folk music with roots back to the 1960s with his collaborative work for Shuji Terayama, a director who is a mainstay in film history for how much he influenced and molded the Japanese film scene. He also cowrote numerous albums throughout the 1970s with popular artists in the folk rock scene. While I'm not much of an anime guy (the only bit of anime media I actively saw outside of Midori was some of Tezuka's work), Seazer also worked on that Revolutionary Girl Utena series that I know a lot of people like. He's still active to this day composing original rock operas.
Maybe next time actually look into the reality of things instead of sensationalist internet rumors. It's like calling John Lennon a psychopath for helping Jodorowsky with the financing and distribution for The Holy Mountain.
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Delete it now please and it’s disturbing by everyone who doesn’t want to watch it’s so pls delete its disturbing
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just don't watch the video bro
that is a work of art
Is very beautiful
Just don't watch it! What's the problem?
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Please give me original