Shibuya

2005-10-31 02:06:00
There is a track that makes me collapse. Yet I cannot not listen to it, it's very emotional. Brian Reitzell & Roger J. Manning Jr's Shibuya.

Especially when it comes to an end and you hear shinkansen announcement. Ambient music is great, it can bring recollections, so strong that they will hurt or uplift... I was there and I still remember how it smells, how it looks and so on - when you hear announcements in JR. And I know the best place in the world to buy music - Shunjuku Tower Records. On my last day in Tokyo I was walking along Shinjuku subway stations and recorded an hour of Shinjuku sounds. Never heard it since then and probably will never do, so emotional it is.

Who are those Brian Reitzell and Roger J. Manning at all? They are session drummer and keyboardists or Air, as much as I know. They delivered two wonderful tracks on Lost in Translation OST but I never heard anything else from them.