Paprika Original Soundtrack

Paprika Original Soundtrack
Soundtrack album by Susumu Hirasawa
Released	November 23, 2006
Length	43:31
Label	CHAOS UNION/TESLAKITE (Japan) Milan Entertainment (USA)
Producer	Susumu Hirasawa
Susumu Hirasawa soundtrack chronology
Paranoia Agent Original Soundtrack (2004) Paprika Original Soundtrack (2006) Free Music for Free-Lance Journalists and Independent Media (2011)

Paprika Original Soundtrack is the soundtrack for the 2006 film, Paprika and was released on November 23, 2006 under the TESLAKITE label. It was composed by Susumu Hirasawa. A bonus movie was included on the CD, using the closing theme to Paprika.

The last track, "The Girl in Byakkoya", features three spoken lines in Vietnamese.

The soundtrack is significant for being the first made for a film to use a Vocaloid (Lola as the "voicebank") for some vocals.^[1][2] It's also the last of Hirasawa' albums where an Amiga computer was used, all MIDI was sequenced through an Amiga 4000 running the Bars'n'Pipes program.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Susumu Hirasawa. 

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Parade" (パレード Parēdo)	5:45
2.	"Mediational Field" (媒介野 Baikaiya)	4:59
3.	"A Blind Spot in a Corridor" (回廊の死角 Kairō no Shikaku)	1:59
4.	"Welcome to the Circus" (サーカスへようこそ Sākasu e Yōkoso)	1:00
5.	"A Tree in the Dark" (暗がりの木 Kuragari no Ki)	1:26
6.	"Escapee" (逃げる者 Nigeru Mono)	3:14
7.	"Lounge"	2:05
8.	"The Shadow" (その影 Sono Kage)	3:19
9.	"A Drop Filled with Memories" (滴いっぱいの記憶 Shizuku Ippai no Kioku)	4:39
10.	"Chaser" (追う者 Ō Mono)	3:03
11.	"Prediction" (予期 Yoki)	1:44
12.	"Parade" (パレード Parēdo) (instrumental)	5:51
13.	"The Girl in Byakkoya - White Tiger Field (Paprika Ending Theme)" (白虎野の娘（パプリカ・エンディングテーマ） Byakkoya no Musume (Papurika Endingu Tēma))	4:47
14.	"The Girl in Byakkoya - White Tiger Field" (白虎野の娘 Byakkoya no Musume) (short movie) (extra track)	2:35

downloadable outtake
No.	Title	Length
2.	"Runner" (走る者 Hashiru Mono)	3:03

Personnel

• Susumu Hirasawa - Voice, Electronic keyboard, Amiga, Personal computer, Digital audio workstation, Synthesizers, Vocaloid, Sampler, Sequencer, Programming, Production
• Masanori Chinzei - Recording, Mixing, Mastering
• Rihito Yumoto and Mika Hirano (Chaos Union) - A&R
• Kiyoshi Inagaki - Design
• Jodi Tack - Album Art Direction (US release)
• Hideki Namai - Photography
• Satoshi Kon - Art (movie stills on US release)
• Syotaro Takami and Nicholas D. Kent - Translation
• Dave Plisky - Translation (US release)
• Masaru Owaku - VideoClip direction
• Thanks: UK Nakagaw, Usagi Tanaka

References

1. "お姉さんを磨け" [Refining the Elder Sister]. NO ROOM. HIRASAWA三行log [Hirasawa Three-Line log] (in Japanese). Chaos Union. August 23, 2008. Retrieved July 15, 2010.
2. Hirasawa, Susumu; Tomita, Akihiro (December 12, 2008). バーチャルな「女性」への欲望とは何か [What is the Desire for a Virtual "Woman"]. Eureka Comprehensive Special Issue ♪ Hatsune Miku — an angel that landed on the net (in Japanese). Vol. 40 no. 15 (Seidosha). p. 60. ISBN 978-4-7917-0187-2.

External links

• Paprika Original Soundtrack at NO ROOM