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Arise Young Lions

Arise Young Lions! - Mishima Record

Arise Young Lions! - Mishima Record

Just found this listing for the ultra-rare Mishima record. Out of my price range, but someone who reads this site should own it…

ARISE YOUNG LIONS ! – Yukio Mishima & Tatenokai

GolgathaSeveral songs on the German ritual-folk band Golgatha’s  2005 “Kydos – Reflections on Heroism” album were dedicated to Yukio Mishima. The songs “Icarus” and “World Serpent” were particularly inspired by Mishima and his “Sun and Steel,” according to Chris from the band.

http://www.ikonenmagazin.de/golgatha/

“Icarus” can be heard on MySpace at:

http://www.myspace.com/schaedelstaette

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Hugo Red Rose

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http://www.silvanusslaughter.com/

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Featuring a familiar Mishima sample.

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Song dedicated to Yukio Mishima, from The Stranglers, circa 1978.

The Stranglers on MySpace. Still going…

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Disk drive with drive pinion Mercury Bergbahn in Baden-Baden - Photographed by Martin Dürrschnabel

A headlessgod.com reader passed along a link to a Mishima tribute by Latvian heavy noise electronic band ZAHNRAD.

ZAHNRAD Mishima tribute

http://www.archive.org/details/Zahnrad-YukioMishima.Tribute

ZAHNRAD on MySpace

http://www.myspace.com/totalmachinery

MISCELLANY: “Zahnrad” apparently means “gear” in German. I found the image above on the Wikipedia site for “zahnrad.”

The gear reminded me of the wheel in the Tatenokai flag.

Tatenokai Flag (black and white)

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Philip Glass Wishes He Had Time to Take a Four-Hour Hike
by Greta Stetson, http://www.telluridewatch.com/

Glass discussed the challenges of composing for Mishima – which he calls a personal musical turning point – during a presentation on Friday night. Writing themes for the film’s complicated narrative developed his “technique of film scoring in a very special way.”

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Dark Zen

Ambient Swiss group Ouraken also seems to have created a Mishima/” Patriotism” inspired track.

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Mishima’ s version of “ Patriotism” or “Yukoko, A Rite of Love and Death” was a silent film, set to Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde.”

Aaron Embry of the group Amnion has recently re-scored the film with his own composition, and made it available for download here, free of charge.

I really enjoyed the haunting main theme. I downloaded it and listened to it in my truck on the way to work this morning and it worked in the rain, though while the old lp effect makes sense with the film, it might be reduced in the mix a bit for use as a stand alone track–it can be kinda distracting.  And one thought-and this is just my own thought–I had was that it might be nice to have some sort of metallic sound over Mishima’s the officer’s suicide.

In the story that the film is based on, Mishima wrote this:

“Was this seppuku?–he was thinking. It was a sensation of utter chaos, as if the sky had fallen on his head and the world was reeling drunkenly. His will power and courage, which had seemed so robust before he made the  incision, had now dwindled to something like a single hairlike thread of steel, and he was assailed by the uneasy feeling that he must advance along this thread, clinging to it with desperation.”

It would be interesting to hear some musical evocation of that thread, which I mentally picture as being something like a silver wire…Sun & Steel reference I suppose…

All in all it is an excellent effort and I always like to see creative work inspired by Mishima.

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