After Yang (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

KEY FEATURES 1xLP pressed on 180-Gram Black Vinyl Includes 12-Page Booklet Liner notes by David Sims Housed in a Gatefold Jacket with OBI strip RELEASE DESCRIPTION Very few films have had opening credit sequences as disarming as AFTER YANG - "Welcome to Family of 4" is at once an introduction to all of the key and incidental players of the chamber play that the film becomes, but also acts as the film's central theme in action - how disruptive grief can be on the family unit. What follows is a patience and sensitive portrayal, both sonically and visually, of the confusion, and occasional clarity that come from unexpected loss. Matsumiya's score is also meta in many ways - using an AI plugin as a tool to sequence a few tracks - teaching it the themes she had written for the film and asking the AI to perform an interpolation of sorts. What it produces is a refracted, strange but poetic reinterpretation of ongoing melodies from the score, mirroring the film's narrative of seeing the fam