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English Title: Goukai Na Gigan
CD Label: BKM
CD Number: G.R.F.50A12
Music Composed by: Akira Ifukube (plus 1 song by by Sekizawa Shinichi and Ogihara Tetsuaki)
Music Performed by: Bukimisha Weird Secret Society
Takeo Yahiro & Friends
Number of tracks: 32 (2 Hidden)
Running time: 57:35
Number of discs: 1
Year of release/manufacture: April 24, 2022

REVIEW

September 02, 2023

Bukimisha commemorates the 50th Anniversary of "Godzilla vs. Gigan" (1972) with an a capella recording of the film's soundtrack. What makes the soundtrack for "Gigan" unique is its usage of stock music from some of Ifukube's previous Toho scores, as well as 2 cues from Expo '70's Mitsubishi Pavilion exhibit (which Ifukube also scored). As with all of their previous recordings, Bukimisha does an amazing job of emulating the music cues with their unique vocal arrangements, and it is interesting (and great fun) to hear how they adapt the themes from some of Ifukube's non-sci-fi scores that appear in the film. As a side note, the CD insert opens to reveal a photo of the Misubishi Pavilion from Expo '70.

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  1. Main Title (M1)
  2. Children's Land Construction (M3)
  3. Monster Island (M4)
  4. Special Tape (M5)
  5. Construction Committee Chairman (M6)
  6. The Park at Night (M6A)
  7. Location of the Tape (M7)
  8. Anguirus Dispatched (M8, 1st half)
  9. Older Brother's Whereabouts (M8, 2nd half)
  10. Background Check (M9)
  11. To Yamano City (M10)
  12. Disaster One Year Ago (M11)
  13. Defense Corps Dispatched (M12, first half)
  14. Anguirus Repulsed (M12, 2nd half)
  15. Transmitter (M13)
  16. Assassination Squad Attack (M14)
  17. Signal to Space (M15)
  18. Godzilla & Anguirus Depart (M16)
  19. Godzilla Tower Infiltration (M17)
  20. M Space Species (M18)
  21. Invaders' Identity (M19)
  22. Defense Corps Dispatched II (M20)
  23. Space Monsters Attack Tokyo (M21)
  24. Fierce Battle of the Four Giant Monsters (M22)
  25. Godzilla Tower Escape Plan (M22A)
  26. Earth Monsters vs. Space Monsters (M23)
  27. Space Monsters' Onslaught (M24)
  28. Tower Destruction Operation (Mitsubishi Pavilion M2, "Storm")
  29. Earth Monsters' Counterattack (Mitsubishi Pavilion M3, "Volcano")
  30. Godzilla March (written by Sekizawa Shinichi and Ogihara Tetsuaki)
  31. [Hidden Track - Gigan Trailer]
  32. [Hidden Track]