Milan Records today releases BELLE (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK – ENGLISH EDITION), an English language version of the Original Soundtrack to Oscar®-nominated filmmaker Mamoru Hosoda’s latest feature.
Available everywhere now, the album features both score and vocal tracks written by a team of composers led by Taisei Iwasaki and including Ludvig Forssell and Yuta Bandoh. Originally written and performed in Japanese, the album’s vocal tracks have been newly recorded in English by Kylie McNeill, who voices ‘Belle’ in the English dubbed version of the film. Today’s album follows the massive success of the original Japanese Edition of the soundtrack, which has garnered over 20 million streams globally since its July 2021 release. Also premiering alongside today’s album are official music videos for English vocal tracks “U,” “Lend Me Your Voice” and “A Million Miles Away” featuring lyrics and footage from the film – watch here.
BELLE follows shy, everyday high school student Suzu as she escapes into a virtual world, becoming a globally-beloved popstar named Belle and setting out on an emotional and epic quest to find herself. Ranging from anthemic pop ballads to emotionally-laden instrumentals, the soundtrack includes original vocal songs written and arranged by Taisei Iwasaki, Ludvig Forssell and Yuta Bandoh as performed in the film by both Suzu and her virtual persona Belle, as well as original score music also written by the trio and Grammy-nominated composer Miho Hazama. The film’s main theme and album opener “U” was written and performed by groundbreaking Japanese act millennium parade led by Daiki Tsuneta, and two of the vocal tracks and recurring themes throughout the film, “Lend Me Your Voice” and “A Million Miles Away” also feature lyrics co-written by Mamoru Hosoda. The English album was produced by Taisei Iwasaki and supervised by Taka Chiyo alongside the team of composers and in collaboration with GKIDS and NYAV Post.
The album’s arrival coincides with the US debut of the Studio Chizu film, which is set to open theatrically and on IMAX screens in both its original Japanese language and English dubbed version on Friday, January 14 via GKIDS, the acclaimed producer and distributor of animation for adult and family audiences.
BELLE (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK – ENGLISH EDITION)
TRACKLISTING –
- U – millennium parade, Belle*
- Whispers – Kylie McNeill*
- Slingshot – Miho Hazama, Taisei Iwasaki
- Memories of a Sound – Taisei Iwasaki
- Blunt Words – ermhoi*
- Gales of Song – Belle*
- Fleeting Days – Ludvig Forssell
- Swarms of Song – Belle*
- Alle Psallite Cum Luya – Ryoko Moriyama, Sachiyo Nakao, Fuyumi Sakamoto, Yoshimi Iwasaki, Michiko Shimizu, Kaho Nakamura
- Fama Destinata – Belle*
- Dragon – Yuta Bandoh
- Justin – Yuta Bandoh
- Unveil – Yuta Bandoh
- Digital Ripples – Ludvig Forssell
- Dragon’s Lair – Yuta Bandoh
- Lend Me Your Voice (draft) – Kylie McNeill*
- Social Warfare – Ludvig Forssell
- Assault – Yuta Bandoh
- Lend Me Your Voice – Belle*
- #UnveilTheBeast – Ludvig Forssell
- Authority and Arrogance – Ludvig Forssell
- Scorching the Façade – Yuta Bandoh
- The Truth Obscured – Ludvig Forssell
- Lend Me Your Voice (humming) – Bentley Griffin
- Distrust – Ludvig Forssell
- A Million Miles Away – Belle*
- Pieces of the Puzzle – Ludvig Forssell
- Faces in the Rain – Kylie McNeill*
- Skies of Song – Ludvig Forssell, Kylie McNeill*
- A Million Miles Away (reprise) – Belle*
*Denotes vocal track
Source: Press Release
