XHM #766 - "Warlording over us" (2025 December 01)

Actor Tatsuya Nakadai (1932-2025) recently passed away so as he reflect on his life, we dive into perhaps his most iconic role in Akira Kurosawa's 1985 epic Ran with a score by another icon: Toru Takemitsu. 01. Masaru Satoh: Unosuke [The Gunman] (Yojimbo OST [extended], 1961) MGM 02. DJ Koze: Brushcutter (Music Can Hear Us, 2025) Pampa 03. Toru Takemitsu: Music from "Woman in the Dunes" (Film Music by Toru Takemitsu 4: Hiroshi Teshigahara's Films, 1991) JVC 04. Daphni: Clap Your Hands (Josephine single, 2025) Jiaolong 05. C Circo: Genus [Socool remix] (kind:Music, 2025) self-released 06. Blawan: SickElixir (SickElixir, 2025) XL 07. Takuya Nakamura: BonJah (Caged Bird Flying EP, 2024) Deer Trap 08. Pacific Spirit: Bleak Affirmation (Canada House EP, 2025) Pacific Rhythm 09. Soccer96: Crystal Pyramid (Inner Worlds, 2022) Moshi Moshi 10. Dawn to Dawn: Yours to Know (2024) Ssurroundss 11. Neko Furēku: Watashi no Kokoro o Hikisaku [Tearing My Heart Out] (Kanojo No Shi, 2019) self-released 12. CR Gillespie: Enigmarelle (Tracings in Honey, 2021) Séance Centre 13. UKO: Taimutoraberā [Time Traveller] (Saturday Boogie Holiday, 2016) Para de Casa 14. Claude Lavender: Judy's Bottom Drawer (After Lunch, 2022) self-released 15. Susumu Yokota: Weave (Magic Thread [remastered], 2025) Lo 16. Tigerbalm: Tokyo Business [Ben Gomori’s 5.5 Minutes in a Shibuya Love Hotel] (2025) Uibquity 17. Seekersinternational & Juwanstockston: Kugatsu Blue (Wareta Kokoro ni Kintsugi, 2024) Riddim Chango 18. Nicolas Ferron Trio: Shiitake (Multiverse, 2024) Dièse Onze 19. Teke::Teke: Gotoku Lemon (Hagata, 2023) Kill Rock Stars 20. Go: Surfspin (Go, 1976) Island 21. Colin Stetson: The Eye Follows the Pattern (Uzumaki OST, 2024) Milan 22. Akira Ifukube: To the Lunar World [from Samurai Saga] (100th Anniversary: Toho Film Music File, 1959) Toho 23. OKI: Cup Kamuy Ho [w.Umeko Ando] (Tonkori in the Moonlight 1996-2006, 2022) Mais Um Discos 24. Momo Kodama: Takemitsu's Rain Tree Sketch (La Vallée des Cloches, 2013) ECM 25. Toru Takemitsu: Vocalism A-1 (Works of Toru Takemitsu: Volume 2, 1966) Victor 26. John Adams & the London Sinfonietta: Waltz [from The Face of Another] (The Film Music of Toru Takemitsu, 1966) Nonesuch 27. Toru Takemitsu: Kwaidan, 4th Movement "Bunraku" (The World of Toru Takemitsu, 1965) Victor 28. Toru Takemitsu & the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra: The Last 10 000 & Hidetora [conductor: Hiroyuki Iwaki] (Ran OST, 1985) Toho 29. Toru Takemitsu & the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra: The Crimson Citadel (Ran OST, 1985) Toho 30. Toru Takemitsu & the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra: Tension in Yahatabara (Ran OST, 1985) Toho 31. Toru Takemitsu & the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra: Battle of Yawatano Pt II (Ran OST, 1985) Toho 32. Toru Takemitsu & the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra: Flute of Darkness (Ran OST, 1985) Toho 33. Yuzo Toyama & Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra: A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden (Orchestral Works IV, 1998) Denon 34. Kudo, Tanaka, Kobayashi, Hirao, Umezu, Togawa, Edo, Takahashi & Wakasugi: Le Son Calligraphié Pt III (Takemitsu: Garden Rain, 2005) Deutsche Grammophon radiofreegak@gmail.com www.citr.ca/exploding-head-movies https://mas.to/@100aire