Minamata
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Milan Records today releases Minamata (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) with music by Academy Award®-, Golden Globe®- and GRAMMY®-Award winning composer and musician Ryuichi Sakamoto.

Milan Records today releases Minamata (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) with music by Academy Award®-, Golden Globe®- and GRAMMY®-Award winning composer and musician Ryuichi Sakamoto.

Available everywhere july 30, 2021, the album features music written by Sakamoto for the Andrew Levitas-directed film based on true events, which follows an American photographer as he documents the effects of mercury poisoning on a coastal town in Japan.

Also included within the 22-track album is the film’s end credit song “One Single Voice,” which is performed by Welsh mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins.

Also available beginning today is a vinyl edition of the soundtrack pressed on a pair of 180-gram black vinyl discs and housed in gatefold packaging with a 12” photo insert, credits and liner notes from director Andrew Levitas.

Of the score and working with Sakamoto, Minamata director Andrew Levitas says, “Ryuichi was my dream collaborator – he would be on any film – but on this mission in particular, there could be no one else…The music quite literally needed to represent both the absolute best of humanity as well as the worst…In my opinion, Ryuichi was able to elegantly ride this razor’s edge and deliver on this concept entirely.”
“It was an honor to be a part of Ryuichi’s beautiful Minamata score,” adds Katherine Jenkins of her inclusion on the soundtrack. “Collaborating with this master with the goal to bring voice to the Minamata patients and the countless others affected by industrial pollution was an inspiring experience which I will always cherish.'

About Minamata:
Based on the book by the same name, Minamata tells the story of reclusive war photographer Eugene Smith as he travels Japan to document the devastating effect of mercury poisoning among coastal communities. Armed with only his trusted camera, Smith’s images from the toxic village give the disaster a heartbreaking human dimension, and his initial assignment turns into a life-changing experience.

About Katherine JenkinsCherished as one of Britain’s all-time favorite singers, in 2017 Katherine was officially crowned the Number 1 selling 'Classical Music Artist of the Last 25 Years’ by Classic FM, and broke her own Classical Chart record when her latest album, Cinema Paradiso topped the Classical Albums Chart. Cinema Paradiso is Katherine’s 14th Number 1 Classical album, making her the UK's most successful classical artist in chart history. The new album also became her highest charting album in over a decade, outselling the rest of the Classical Top 50 combined.

As one of the UK’s greatest musical exports, multi-award winning Katherine has performed all over the world, for the Pope, for Presidents and is a favorite of the Royal Family, having been invited to sing 'God Save The Queen' at Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee, perform at Her Majesty's Coronation Concerts at Buckingham Palace and by special request at Her Majesty's 90th birthday celebrations at Windsor Castle.
She has embarked upon numerous sold-out tours and duetted with such names as Andrea Bocelli, José Carreras, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Bryn Terfel, Rolando Villazon, and Il Divo, amongst others. Katherine was awarded an OBE at the 2014 New Year’s Honours List for her services to music and charity and wowed audiences and critics alike with her stellar performance as Julie Jordan in Lonny Price’s semi-staged production of Carousel at the London Coliseum in 2017.

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