Artist
Joe Hisaishi (久石 譲, Hisaishi Joe) was born on December 6, 1950, in Nagano. He started his career as a composer of modern music when he was still a student at the Kunitachi College of Music. At that time, he was into minimalist music. He released his first album, "Information" in 1982.
In 1983, he was recommended by a record company to create the Image Album for Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind, which was being made into a movie. Miyazaki was so impressed with the Image Album that he often played it during the movie production. Although the soundtrack of Nausicaa was to be composed by a certain "famous" composer, Isao Takahata (the producer of Nausicaa) and Miyazaki strongly recommended that Hisaishi should do the soundtrack as well. The rest is history.
Hisaishi also composed the beautiful and unforgettable music for other Miyazaki anime films; Laputa, Kiki, Porco Rosso, Mononoke Hime, Spirited Away, and Howl's Moving Castle, among other soundtracks for other directors' films. His music played a very important role in these movies. He has also released many other albums, and he worked as the executive producer at and wrote the theme song for the 1998 Nagano Paralympics.
He has composed over 40 film soundtracks. He has won many awards, including five Japanese Academy Awards for Best Music, the 48th Newcomer Award from the Ministry of Education (Public Entertainment Section), and others. Today he is regarded as one of the most influential composers in the Japanese film industry.
His name, "Hisaishi Joe" (family name first) came from "Quincy Jones". The kanji for "Hisaishi" could be read as "Kuishi", which is close to the Japanese pronunciation of "Quincy", and "Joe" of course came from "Jones". Hisaishi himself chose this name, when he needed a stage name.
Tracks
1
旅路(夢中飛行)
02:55
2
流れ星
01:37
3
カプローニ(設計家の夢)
01:45
4
旅路(決意)
01:12
5
菜穂子(出会い)
00:48
6
避難
01:20
7
恩人
00:47
8
カプローニ(幻の巨大機)
01:43
9
ときめき
00:40
10
旅路(妹)
01:43
11
旅路(初出社)
01:28
12
隼班
01:34
13
隼
01:22
14
ユンカース
01:28
15
旅路(イタリアの風)
01:45
16
旅路(カプローニの引退)
01:20
17
旅路(軽井沢の出会い)
01:45
18
菜穂子(運命)
00:46
19
菜穂子(虹)
01:09
20
カストルプ(魔の山)
01:10
21
風
00:52
22
紙飛行機
02:38
23
菜穂子(プロポーズ)
01:10
24
八試特偵
00:58
25
カストルプ(別れ)
01:49
26
菜穂子(会いたくて)
03:06
27
菜穂子(めぐりあい)
03:04
28
旅路(結婚)
01:57
29
菜穂子(眼差し)
01:04
30
旅路(別れ)
01:18
31
旅路(夢の王国)
03:36
32
ひこうき雲
03:23
Releases
Labels
Studio Ghibli Records, Nibariki
Countries
Japan, Korea, Republic of