I am a big fan of Studio Ghibli movies, which I tried to see as many as I could.
Today they made me a beautiful surprise. Watching "Only Yesterday" I heard Romanian music. I wasn't wrong, at the end generics Gheorghe Zamfir was credited!
There's a lot of music from a Hungarian folk group called Muzsikas. Their music is absolutely stunning, and brought a transcendant beauty to Omohide Poro Poro. The music in this film is just astonishing, as is often the case in Takahata productions.
The OPP soundtrack CD has a good mixture of all the music from the movie, but unfortunately misses that wonderful choir music from the sunrise scene. You can grab the CD online.
That wonderful choir music (when they are at the field, just after she got off the car, right?) comes from my country - it's bulgarian folk music :). You can find the names of the songs in the credis:
http://img138.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bgghibli8qj.jpg
I'm also a big fan ot Stduio Ghibli and their animations. I was pleasently surprised to hear those two songs.
Those songs were wonderful: the Romanian one is a wedding song. What does the Bulgarian title mean, please? :)
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...in this neighbourhood heroes are scarce, or simply not to be found.
So what is the name of tune? The link seems to take me nowhere now. I know it's been so long but only recently did I come across this film. Thanks.
shareAre they (the Muzsikas) still making new music? It's been over 15 years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpXwPdJIOJY
Best thing ever.
I laughed out loud with delight when I heard the Romanian music! To suddenly hear something so intimately familiar in a Japanese animation movie was an incredible experience!! I loved that it was followed with the Bulgarian choir: that also brought back fond memories. When I was a child, there were only two hours of TV broadcast per day (and that mostly Ceausescu stuff), so we would watch the Bulgarian programs.
It was great to read on the credits that the Romanian song was a wedding song :) That gave me all the more the warm and fuzzy feeling, thinking about the traditional happy ending: a wedding! :)
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...in this neighbourhood heroes are scarce, or simply not to be found.
I had the same reaction. It was a little distracting, and completely lovely. The whole soundtrack of this movie was fantastic, but the Romanian tune was instantly extending the sensation of intimacy over such a far-away place; I don't find the Japanese countryside very alien to begin with, in addition with the song it felt like an extension of my backyard (metaphorically speaking, because, like the main character in this movie, I have always lived in a city and I don't have relatives in the countryside either).
I was also very thrilled when I found this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIPa11oZUN8
(although the music and the action in this scene blend in a different way)
Also - in your childhood you were watching Bulgarian programs because you must have lived in the South of Romania, I lived in the North-East and was watching two hours of Moldavian and Russian programs :).
A lovely thing to watch just before Easter. Btw Paste Fericit to you, whether you read this message or not!
there's a highway that is curling up like smoke above her shoulder
Toshio had fantastic taste in music!
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