SHOGUN ASSASSIN OST Orig LP W Michael Lewis john carpenter RZA GZA Liquid Swords

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Shogun Assassin - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Baby-Cart Productions ? CR 4148  1980

Original 1980 pressing, not the recent (bootleg) reissue!

This classic soundtrack lp of dark, menacing, minimal early '80's moog/synth awesomeness was, surprisingly, a collaboration of Mark Lindsay (of Paul Revere and the Raiders - huh?), Robert Houston (the film's producer), and W. Michael Lewis (of A.V.I. Records disco production team Rinder & Lewis - don't worry there is nothing even remotely disco-ey on this lp!). Shogun Assassin was a low-budget repackaging for the US market of two films from Toho's Lone Wolf and Cub series, in which exiled Samurai protagonist Itto Ogami roams the Japanese countryside, wheeling his infant son Daigoro in a baby cart, slicing up all bad guys who challenge him (occasionally the baby helps out!). Shogun Assassin basically takes the best parts from each original film (Ogami slicing up his adversaries in various ways- horizontal, vertical, various limbs, decapitations, etc… bright-red blood squirting all over the place), dubs it in English, and pulls the story together via a past-tense narration by Daigoro as a little boy. The film was distributed by Roger Corman's New World Pictures to the grindhouse movie circuit in the US. Parts of Shogun Assassin are sampled on GZA's classic album "Liquid Swords" (produced by RZA).

My fave track, "The Ninja", resembles the "Imperial March" theme from The Empire Strikes Back as if performed by Wendy Carlos for the A Clockwork Orange soundtrack!

Tracklist :

A1  The Legend Of Lone Wolf

A2  Daigoro's Theme

A3  Assassin With Son

A4  The Ninja

B1  Voyagers

B2  Crimson Sky

B3  Eyes Of A Demon

B4  Dune

B5  Lone Wolf's Theme

Condition:

Vinyl: VG+

Cover: VG+

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