Did the Air(tv) anime get a second season? Cause this is it’s OST. Ken Muramatsu’s jazz shaded classical compositions
infuse a backdrop of drum machines and synthetic lower bottom bass sounds with
crisp keys to form Green Thoughts, an anonymity of a sound at times imitating
summer days or tree bark through the longings of major 7 and minor 9 voicings straightly
laid out.
Alternatively,
Green Thoughts = Plantasia? Either way,
we are blessed with such masterpiece.
1. 緑のささやく島
A radiant mid-morning at an anime park; Misuzu’s
hidden Summer. Flippant bold blocked
rising sun spirals happiness throughout the Air while faceless strangers blend
into the living painting. The day is
healthy. The day is filled with major 7’s
and minor 9’s, but we are groovy.
Chord progression includes lots of
diatonic jazz stuff in C major. Lots of
D-7, G13, G
(b13), E-7, F maj 7.
Key change to Db major towards end
of jam.
2. 出逢いと別れ
Misuzu’s
Stoll. A déjà-vu of a moment that has
been tinted with foreshadow unknowingly because the future hasn’t happened
yet. Light and breezy.
Lots of
chill jazz 7th chords. D maj7
, B – 7, F# - 7, A -7 D7, G maj…etc. etc.
3. 陽だまり
The
pre-tragedy, Misuzu’s confession. Night
time, deeply threaded conversation of care and emotion between two.
4. いつか森の中で
WOW
screech of the midnight Bats, minor.
Misuzu’s lively night. Maybe it’s
Potato’s disappearance. Ya silly pup
where you off to?
Ends
like a track on Budd’s Avalon Sutra.
5. グリーン・シャワー
Misuzu’s
rainbow. A dazzling morning spirits us
with rainbow. We are invigorated in the
same way of a plant’s posture. Echo baby!
“You
know I’m jokin’, babe?”
6. 晴れた午後には
Misuzu’s
puppet show. Wonky donky button nosed
puppets sloppily perform Greek tragedy.
We are doofuses, we are comedic. Or,
some sort of argumentative conversation.
7. 哀しみは喜びとともに
Misuzu’s
nightmare. The bizarre, stressful kind
of nightmare, not gory or monster types.
The verse has the tone, “and that is
what happens to the boy who cries ‘wolf’”, describing a moral to the story
after a negative outcome. Tan brown, Walsh
faerie tale-ish.
8. 水平線の見える部屋
Misuzu’s
horizon. Sun peeps through blinds and we
have a morning.
Do a lot
of these anime inspired jazz/classical soundtracks tend to be in non-jazz keys
(Bb, Eb, F)?? Does this album beckon a
resurgence of Key anime releases? The
world may never know. Green Thoughts is a digitally drawn upbeat chillax wonderland of the paradox of Summer day anime land where it never feels too hot. Keeping it cool Mr. Muramatsu.
