BUKIMISHA: FRANKENSTEIN CONQUERS THE GARGANTUAS

BSXDG9230 includes Digital BookletClick Here for CD Release BSX Records presents a thrilling 2-album set featuring Bukimisha’s “a Capella” recreations the Akira Ifukube scores to both FRANKENSTEIN CONQUERS THE WORLD and its loose sequel, WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS! During the mid-1960s, Toho Studios partnered with film producer Henry Saperstein to create several films starring American actor Nick Adams. The first release resurrected Frankenstein’s monster, now a giant-sized protagonist, created after the creature’s immortal heart, irradiated during the bombing of Hiroshima, is eaten by a starving child survivor. Unlike his compositions for previous genre epics, this film offered Ifukube a unique opportunity to create several poignant melodies. Rubber-suited monsters featured in earlier projects were replaced with the anguished, human-like, face of a mutated vagrant. This allowed the maestro recall the pathos of the Hiroshima survivors. Even before the release of the first film, Toho and Sap