The soundtrack Tempest is a dramatic musical work produced by Stomu Yamashita. As its title suggests, the piece takes the “tempest” as its central motif, portraying the clash between natural forces and human emotion through sound. The work moves from silence to rising wind, to the arrival of a storm, and finally back into calm. The musical structure itself functions like a meteorological experience, allowing the listener to “weather” the phenomenon in real time.

Dense synthesizers, percussion, and strings create a ritualistic and focused sound typical of Yamashita’s compositional language, oscillating between tension and release on a cinematic scale.

Takashi Kokubo also contributes to the work, supporting the acoustic design through transparent synthesizer tones and spatial processing, helping to form a three-dimensional sonic environment. The stillness after the storm suggests not destruction but renewal and healing, expanding the work beyond natural depiction into the terrain of the inner, psychological “storm.”

Tempest stands as an ambitious project that unifies emotional energy and the scale of natural phenomena into a coherent sonic experience.

1.Tempest Fantasia

2.Nature

3.Tango

4.Theme From Tempest (Show Me The Magic)

5.Wind Words

6.Epilogue

7.Manhattan

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