Milan Records today releases EXCEPTION (SOUNDTRACK FROM THE NETFLIX ANIME SERIES) by RYIUCHI SAKAMOTO. Available everywhere now, the album features original music written by Sakamato for Netflix’s upcoming sci-fi horror anime. The album was initially introduced with the series’ opening theme, “Opening for ‘Exception,’” an otherworldly orchestral piece featuring sweeping strings layered with piano and ethereal synths, and “Oxygen,” which features an extended reprisal of the opening theme. Making its debut alongside today’s album is a music video for “Oxygen” with imagery from the series – watch here. With an original story by Hirotaka Adachi (Otsuichi) and character designs by Final Fantasy’s Yoshitaka Amano, Exception debuts exclusively on Netflix today.
Of the album, composer RYUICHI SAKAMOTO says, “I wanted to make the main theme a symphonic piece—the kind that has become a staple in science fiction since Star Wars. As for the soundtrack as a whole, I worked towards keeping it darkly ambient, wanting it to feel like one piece of music rather than separated by scene. That said, I did include a degree of harsh sounds in the fighting scenes. Overall, I was able to make a soundtrack I like very much.”
ABOUT EXCEPTION
In the far future, humanity has been driven from Earth and forced to move its population to another galaxy. Members of a scouting team are sent to search for a planet suitable for terraforming. The crew was created through a biological 3D printer, but a system malfunction causes one of the crew members, Lewis, to emerge in a deformed state. As Lewis turns on his fellow crew members Nina, Mack, Patty and Oscar, a countdown to the end of the mission begins in the frightening darkness of the ship. A terrifying space horror with story by Hirotaka Adachi (Otsuichi) and character designs by Yoshitaka Amano
Source: Press Release
