Yasushi ishii is a composer mostly known for his soundtrack work which are hellsing, drifters and darker then black. His style is jazz/rock and uses many samples and he also is a devout buddhist which most his songs preach, he quite obscure so i wish to share him to the board so please enjoy
1. World without logos
https://youtu.be/FLeF5RxBNh0?si=xjyl5oEJREXeuieEThe song is used for the opening of hellsing, the lyrics are made of English sounding, according to ishii it is called world without logos due to logos meaning logic in greek so it could be roughly translated to as world without logic which explains the gibberish lyrics it also means a world without god.
2. When going to war fight with arrows, spears and swords
https://youtu.be/C9HOPc76LQE?si=Oa9roHkg8Ac4_OUbThe song is about ishii lamenting over modern greed/capitalism and someone who only chases that in life, the songs name meaning is derived from ishii’s belief that we should not use guns in warfare since they are too easy to use and we should fight with tools/martial art that improve focus.
3. Blues of forever
https://youtu.be/W2dJxoKIbUQ?si=RNLK8qpsp4AFCKi0This is a jazz song and is a remake of one of his hellsing compositions and is about reflecting about his life.
4. Gypsy of atonement
https://youtu.be/tFCYkQ_b-B4?si=Cmd43eNKq47v8bX5This is another one of his hellsing compositions and is about if you truly look back on your own actions you will reach atonement.
5. radio illusion
https://youtu.be/L6qoEVjm3p4?si=I9RFV8USyGVBiea5The song if i remember is about corrupt organizations like the cia.
6. Nehan pose
https://youtu.be/n8TKihsW23A?si=x8QCDr_kwiSJzaCiThis song is about buddha, quite like its sax and suggest listening to it at night.
7. BONUS ISHII Minami Karasuyama 6th Street
Production
https://youtu.be/6sBlFbF6fzQ?si=6vCF2yKOSfJrPEAIThis is his album from 1996 and was composed by him and hidetoshi nakamura and is where he gets his signature style and was his first independent album not for any band since in the 90s he was a hip hop star in a band named boyo bozo, he also composed for Lazy Knack, Tomoe Shinohara, Masayuki Suzuki, uwave and V6.
He also has a blog in which every month he posts a song.
Forgive me if this post is to long or has any grammatical errors this is my first time posting on /music so any ways to format better would be useful, I also am not a native Japanese speaker and am getting the meanings from google translating his blog posts and from lyrics videos so some of the meanings may only get the gist of the songs intent but I came to this board to show more people him I really hoped you enjoyed him hes one of my favorite composers.
