Colin Stetson’s Uzumaki Soundtrack Now Out
Colin Stetson’s soundtrack for the upcoming Uzumaki anime is now out, courtesy of Milan Records. The soundtrack is available digitallyjust in time for the anime’s premiere on September 28. Commenting on the album, Stetson said:
“I absolutely adored my time making this music and inhabiting the strange, gorgeous, horrifying, and spectacular spiral world that Ito-Sensei created.”
This is Stetson’s first anime title, but he has experience with horror as he’s previously worked on scores for movies such as Hereditary and The Menu. He often collaborates with Arcade Fire and Bon Iver. The tracklist for the Uzumaki anime soundtrack, which will be available also be available to order in a 180-gram black and white spiral-bound vinyl edition, includes:
- Uzumaki
- Join me in the spiral
- The eye follows the pattern
- Obsession
- For a split second, the drifting smoke
- Kirie and Shuichi
- Ruins Alive
- The Labyrinth
- Eerily in the dark
- Hey! Are you trying to escape?!
- The Eternal Spiral
- Twisted souls
- Medusa
The highly anticipated adaptation of Junji Ito’s manga is produced by Production I.G (USA) and Adult Swim. Studio Drive is in charge of the animation and Hiroshi Nagahama is directing. It will premiere on Adult Swim this Saturday with next-day streaming on Max.
The cast includes:
- Uki Satake / Abby Trott as Kirie Goshima
- Shin-ichiro Miki / Robbie Daymond as Shuichi Saito
- Mariya Ise / Christina Vee as Azami Kurotani
- Toshio Furukawa / Doug Stone as Kirie’s Dad
- Mika Doi / Mona Marshall as Shuichi’s Mom
- Takashi Matsuyama / Aaron LaPlante as Shuichi’s Dad
- Katsutoshi Matsuzaki / Max Mittleman as Katayama
- Ami Fukushima as Shiho
- Wataru Hatano as Okada
Source: Press Release
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