Out now: Soundtrack album from NHK drama series Ima Koko ni Aru Kiki to Boku no Kokando ni Tsuite, music courtesy Yasuaki Shimizu

A stinging black comedy set at a purported top-flight Japanese university, NHK’s Ima Koko in Aru Kiki... aired in spring as a five-part series satirizing the paradoxes of the academic sociosphere.

 

Accompanying scandal after thorny scandal, soundtrack gems include Bach’s “Sleepers Awake” on solo piano and contempo arrangement of that same piece complete with original English lyrics, “Sleepers Awake Now.”

 

Shimizu explains, "Peppering it with the Bach arrangements, I floated that texture throughout the drama, composing a soundtrack in which ‘static’ and ‘dynamic’ shift dramatically."

 

Yasuaki Shimizu – tenor saxophone, piano, keyboard, programming

 

Ima Koko ni Aru Kiki to Boku no Kokando ni Tsuite
Released 8 September by Suzak Musik/Ideal Music

Available in CD and digital formats from

Amazon, Tower Records, iTunes, Spotify

Also available in hi-resolution audio from OTOTOY, e-onkyo, mora , and other music download sites.

 

NHK TV drama Ima Koko ni Aru Kiki to Boku no Kokando ni Tsuite website

https://www.nhk.jp/p/ts/J94YJZG3V6/