Joe Hisaishi – Kiki’s Delivery Service: Image Album LP (First Vinyl Edition, Studio Ghibli Records, Japan Import TJJA-10020)

About the album As he did on Nausicaä, Castle in the Sky and Totoro, Joe Hisaishi began Kiki's Delivery Service with an image album: music written before the film was finished, to capture its world and characters. Miyazaki's brief was a seaside town "somewhere in Europe, around the Mediterranean," and Hisaishi answered with sunny, European-flavored pieces for Kiki's mother's broom, the town at night, Tombo, Jiji and Lily, and the bakery window where Kiki finds her place. Released in April 1989, three months before the film, it captures the score in its earliest form. In 2020, Studio Ghibli Records remastered it and released it on vinyl for the first time, alongside the Kiki soundtrack and the Porco Rosso albums. Tracklist Side A Mother's Broom (かあさんのホウキ) Pickup Street (ナンパ通り) The Town at Night (町の夜) I Think I'll Be Fine (元気になれそう) A Date by the Sea (渚のデイト) Windy Hill (風の丘) Side B Tombo (トンボさん) Lily and Jiji (リリーとジジ) The World Is So Big (世界って広いわ) The Bakery Window (パン屋さんの窓) A Gust of Wind (突風) A Sunlit Alley (木洩れ陽の路地) Release details Composer Joe Hisaishi (久石譲) Title Kiki's Delivery Service: Image Album (魔女の宅急便 イメージアルバム) Label Studio Ghibli Records / Tokuma Japan Catalog No. TJJA-10020 Barcode 4988008087215 Format 12" LP, 33⅓ RPM, new mastering, new jacket artwork Country Japan (import) Released March 2020, first vinyl edition (original album: April 10, 1989) Film Kiki's Delivery Service (魔女の宅急便), 1989, dir. Hayao Miyazaki Genre Film Score, Anime Soundtrack, Instrumental Condition New More of Hisaishi's image albums for Miyazaki: Nausicaä Image Album and My Neighbor Totoro Image Song Album. Why buy from STOKYO STOKYO is run by DJs and vinyl heads, and we've been importing Japanese records and analog gear since 2004. This LP comes straight from Japan and ships from Los Angeles.