The long awaited Anime music soundtrack from the great Shunsuke Kikuchi compilations will be released this year.
Title: Arabian Nights: The Adventures of Sindbad
Original Soundtrack Vol.1
Number of Discs: 2
Music Composer: Shunsuke Kikuchi
Song Theme Collection Performed by: Mitsuko Horie
CD Cover Illustrated by: Shuichi Seki, Kazusuke Yoshihara
Story
It's in Baghdad during the Arabian dynastic period around the 8th century. Sindbad, a boy with full of curiosity is fascinated by the story of his sailor uncle and sets off on an adventurous journey away from his parents. On a journey full of mysteries, he meets Aladdin, a devoted wise old man, and Ali Baba, a fearless young man, and together they confront the enemies that stand in their way. What awaits Sinbad, who armed with his wisdom and courage, and won the battles with the evil wizard Satyajit, demons, monsters, and thieves? This is a fun adventure story arranged from an episode of "Arabian Nights" which is popular all around the world.
Shunsuke Kikuchi
The music composer of Arabian Nights: The Adventures of Sindbad is a very popular iconic figure in Japan and worldwide who composed several popular Anime titles, Japanese films, and TV shows. He is well known for his musical-dramatic touch. Back in the 1970s and 1980s, Kikuchi made a huge influence on the audience that made them look at Anime music differently.
In the 1970s, Shunsuke Kikuchi was in his prime when he composed the music for Arabian Nights: The Adventures of Sindbad among several Anime titles. In Sindbad, he used orchestrated music style including enthusiasm and emotional music themes that touch and move the feelings of the audience.
As for the music soundtrack of Sindbad, it is one of the rarest music soundtracks of Kikuchi. This is the first time ever the music Soundtrack of Sindbad will get a release.
Mitsuko Horie
a.k.a. Micchi in public appearances is the theme song vocalist of Arabian Nights: The Adventures of Sindbad. She is a very popular Anime singer and a voice actress who participated in several titles and is well noticed and loved by her audience in Japan and worldwide.
In The Adventures of Sindbad Original music CD Soundtrack, all of the song themes performed by Mitsuko Horie are included along with the versions of karaoke, melody for the first time ever as well as the short TV size of the opening and ending song themes.
Shuichi Seki
The original character designer of Arabian Nights: The Adventures of Sindbad is back to reviving the Anime of Sindbad with his magical touch. The music CD soundtrack Vol.1 is full of artwork designed and illustrated by Seki himself. The illustrations are exclusively made for the CD jacket and for several pages inside the CD booklet.
Kazusuke Yoshihara
The original art director of Arabian Nights: The Adventures of Sindbad participates creatively in the exclusive illustrations of Shuichi Seki. His style of the illustrated background sweetened the Anime of Sindbad as sweetened the background used for the exclusive illustrations of the 1st volume of the music CD soundtrack.
Kazuhiro Ochi
Character designer, key animator, and director of Anime. He was not involved in the Anime of Sindbad originally. However, his outstanding style in drawing characters in dynamic poses is extraordinary. He solely created exclusive illustrations for the 2nd volume of the Sindbad music CD soundtrack. Ochi was eager to do his magic to create exclusive illustrations for both external and internal CD jackets, CD labels as well as the booklet cover.
Arabian Nights: The Adventures of Sindbad Original music CD Soundtrack is a must-have product for the fans of the Anime series itself and for the fans who like to collect the work of Shunsuke Kikuchi, Mitsuko Horie, Shuichi Seki, Kazusuke Yoshihara, and Kazuhiro Ochi.