Label: Purge

遂に松本俊夫氏のサントラが登場!!お見逃し無く!!ここPurgeが積極的にサポートし音源出版を続けている、音楽家・稲垣貴士氏が手掛けたサントラ作品。これまで[Music for the Films of Takashi Ito](2019年)と、[Prisoner of Love: The Dead Dance](2024年)が音盤化されていますが、満を持して日本前衛映画の巨匠"松本俊夫"氏のサントラ集がリリース。コネクション(1981年)、リレーション(1982年)、シフト(1982年)、スウェイ(1985年)、エングラム(1987年)、5つの名作映像の音源を纏めた非常に濃い内容であり、前2作とは全く異なる作風にも挑んだ大変貴重な記録物。限定250枚ナンバリング入り、180g重量盤、BBCでラジオ番組を持つJennifer Lucy Allanによるエッセイ、稲垣氏による追悼文を掲載したブックレット付き。



250 copies. A third, extraordinary document. Purge.xxx continues its quiet, singular excavation of the work of Japanese composer Takashi Inagaki with Soundtracks for Toshio Matsumoto - five soundtracks gathered for the first time, newly transferred from the original tapes, mixed and mastered, and accompanied by an original essay by Jennifer Lucy Allan.

Toshio Matsumoto (1932-2017) was a foundational figure in Japanese experimental cinema - a film director, video artist, and theoretician best known internationally for his debut feature Funeral Parade of Roses, the audacious Oedipus Rex-derived narrative that mapped the Tokyo underground through a transvestite protagonist and left a long shadow over everything that followed. For Matsumoto, experimental filmmaking was a means of accessing what he described as the pre-logical unconscious. In the 1980s, he developed a new approach to the medium specifically directed at what he called disturbing perceptual unity. It is the soundtracks for these films that form the spine of this release.

Inagaki's entrance into Matsumoto's world came through his existing relationship with filmmaker Takashi Ito - a connection purge.xxx has documented across two essential prior releases, Music for the Films of Takashi Ito (2019) and Prisoner of Love: The Dead Dance (2024). Where those records mapped a long-running creative partnership rooted in the compact, unnerving registers of short experimental film, Soundtracks for Toshio Matsumoto finds Inagaki working against a different set of demands - the more expansive, philosophically burdened cinema of a director whose entire practice was bent toward a questioning of perception itself. The five works - Sway, Connection, Shift, Engram, Relation - confirm what those previous releases already suggested: that Inagaki is among the most singular and unjustly overlooked experimental composers of his generation.