Search - Various, Original Soundtrack :: Ghost in the Shell 2 - Innocence

Track List

C. Mohan | Canada | 09/13/2005

(3 out of 5 stars)

"I don't know why Amazon does not list the tracks, so here is a tracklist that I transcribed from the liner notes:



01 - [1:26] - Dungeon

02 - [3:42] - The Ballade of Puppets: Flowers Grieve And Fall

03 - [4:07] - Type 2052 'Hadaly'

04 - [5:50] - River of Crystals

05 - [3:33] - Attack of Wakabayashi

06 - [3:57] - Etorofu

07 - [5:13] - The Ballade of Puppets: In A New World, Gods Will Descend

08 - [1:33] - The Doll House I

09 - [2:58] - The Doll House II

10 - [9:49] - The Ballade of Puppets: The Ghost Waits In The World Beyond

11 - [0:34] - Toh Kami Emi Tame

12 - [5:01] - Follow Me



In my opinion, the only 'good' track is River of Crystals, which is the soft jazz tune that plays just before Batou goes home to feed his dog"

Beautiful

Lucy Kusanagi | 03/19/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The soundtrack fits the movie perfecty. It's haunting, dark, mysterious, and, most of all, beautiful. I only really wanted the last song on the soundtrack, Follow Me, but I was forced to buy the soundtrack after iTunes refused to carry it for their US customers. Apparently they don't realize that music is a language that crosses all barriers.



I'm glad I was forced into buying the soundtrack, though, because there's nothing like putting it on the CD player, and just letting it be background music while reading a particularly good book."

Fitting music for the sequel ...

Enrique M. Alvarez | San Francisco, CA | 01/01/2006

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Dark, ethereal, and evolutionary, Kenji Kawai serves up a signature aural landscape for the sequel to Ghost in the Shell (GITS). For "Innocence" he reassembles many of the elements that made his original GITS soundtrack so unique: taiko percussion, female Japanese chorus, brooding electronica, while adding two original western Jazz-oriented tracks sung in English: "River of Crystals" and "Follow Me."



With a nod to twentieth century classical music, "Follow Me" takes its motif from the second movement of Joaquin Rodrigro's "Concierto de Aranjuez" for guitar and orchestra. Usually, this sort of practice is disastrous but Kawai's arrangement and Kimiko Itoh's lush vocals make it work here.



In a departure from the original GITS soundtrack, Kawai includes several high-energy tracks which make use of percussion and electronic riffs ("Attack the Wakabayashi") along with more dark, familiar brooding tracks such as "Etorofu."



However it is on track #9, "Ballad of Puppets: The Ghost Waits in the World Beyond" that Kawai masterfully blends all his signature elements: female chorus, high energy taiko percussion, smart electronic riffs. During the movie, this track plays while Section 9 Operative Batou assaults the Gynoid Factory Ship. Kawai culminates the track by weaving in a choral theme from the original GITS Soundtrack associated with Major Motoko Kusanagi -- Batou's long lost partner. Highly recommended!"