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Otomo Yoshihide

Heart, Beating in the Dark: Original Soundtrack

(Office Shirous) (Japan) (CD + booklet)


  1. Heart Beating Opening Theme (1:36)
  2. Nightmare (2:59)
  3. In the Dark 1 (1:18)
  4. In the Beat (1:39)
  5. In the Dark 2 (1:10)
  6. Walkman Dance (1:39)
  7. Heart Beating Ending Theme (2:33)
  8. Heart Beating Demo (3:34)

Music by Otomo Yoshihide; lyrics by Otomo Yoshihide (6) and Kahimi Karie (7)

Midori Hara: vocal (6)
Kahimi Karie: vocal (7)
Otomo Yoshihide: guitar
Naoko Eto: organ
Yusuke Nishimura: bass
Masahiro Uemura: drums
Makoto Otsu: drum samples (8)

Music produced by Otomo Yoshihide with Naoko Eto
Recorded by Yoshiaki Kondo at GOK Sound, Tokyo
Mastered by Toshimaru Nakamura
Includes a 26 x 18 cm, 36-page booklet (Japanese language) with film stills, actor photos/profiles, personnel profiles, draft of film script, liner notes by Kazushi Hosaka, and an interview of film director Shunichi Nagasaki by Mariko Kimura

Released in April 2006