[1980] Teo Macero - Impressions Of VIRUS (Full Album)

Additional info can be found on Discogs under entry number 6297280. Tracklist: 1. ALL TO YOU [0:00] 2. WATER BED [6:26] 3. VIRUS [14:09] 4. OUR NORWAY [19:02] 5. ROUND TRIP [27:32] Music by Teo Macero CD purchased by me, ripped/scanned by squidlin Another album released based off Kadokawa's "Fukatsu no Hi" / "VIRUS" movie from 1980. Much like the soundtrack release, I also thought this was another concept album based off the movie at first... I recently happened to discover some new lore about the production of this album, and in the end—I guess it's still a concept album? It's not too complicated, but it's a weird situation. A mutual of mine (thank you Konanne for the info!) explained to me that there were separate "scoring sessions" for "VIRUS" recorded in different locations: - New York & LA—the jazz/fusion tracks from the OST (plus some orchestral cues by the New York Strings section) were recorded here - London—the orchestral tracks from the Symphonic Suite album were recorded here - Japan—Kentaro Haneda's work for the movie was recorded here The 2011 CD release of the "VIRUS" OST included some new liner notes explaining that the contents of this specific album were basically extra material taken from the New York sessions. Mentions of previous Kadokawa films like "The Inugami Family" and "Proof of the Man" were also brought up & how they featured jazz fusion music by Yuji Ohno—in the end, it would seem like those movies had some sort of influence in Kadokawa deciding to hire Macero for making fusion music for "VIRUS", even if the movie ultimately didn't utilize any of the fusion music in the movie's original audio mixes. Enough lore talk for now—having said that... what do I think of the music here? Honestly, this is just me being truthfully picky—I don't hate this album, and I certainly don't think the music in here is bad either. But compared to the tracks from the soundtrack album, each track on here felt a little too... I don't know, "long" for me? I'm not sure if it would be correct to label the music here as experimental (probably not) but these drag on for more than what I would have generally preferred and the compositions don't click for me the same way as the OST did, either. I did like "OUR NORWAY" and "VIRUS" though, that much I can say. Regardless, enjoy!