Jeff Danna And Akira Yamaoka - Silent Hill (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2019)

Jeff Danna
A hand injury ended the performance career of pianist/guitarist Jeff Danna but his dream was kept alive with his transition to soundtrack composing. Using his score for the Warner Brothers television revival of Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, which he composed shortly after moving to Los Angeles in 1991, as a springboard, Danna became one of the top composers of television soundtracks. His resume includes composing the scores of more than one hundred and fifty shows including Beverly Hills 90210, Sweating Bullets, and A&E Biography and made-for-TV films including the Matthew Shepard Story and Baby.
Beginning with his score for the Tim Blake Nelson-directed movie, O, in 2000, Danna has focused on film composition. His film credits include the soundtracks of The Kid Stays in the Picture, Green Dragon, The Boondock Saints, Lions Gate's Uncorked, and My Own Country. He reunited with Nelson when he composed the score of the Lions Gate World War II film The Grey Zone. Other scores include both animated and live-action features, with such divergent projects as All Saints Day, Fracture, Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Miss Spider, Silent Hill, Richard Attenborough’s Closing the Ring, and Neil Labute’s Lakeview Terrace.
Danna has remained active as a musician, recording traditional and original Celtic music with his brother and keyboardist, Mychael. The brothers, who have received three BMI/SOCAN awards for scoring excellence, collaborated on albums including A Celtic Tale: The Legend of Deirdre, A Celtic Romance: The Legend of Lladain and Curithur and a second version of A Celtic Tale: The Legend of Deirdre, featuring narration by Fiona Ritchie of National Public Radio show, Thistle and Shamrock.

Akira Yamaoka
Master of aural gloom and suspense, the Japanese musician and composer Akira Yamaoka is best-known for his work on the soundtrack for the Silent Hill video game series, where he used a mixture of ambient, trip-hop, rock, and industrial to chilling effect. The Niigata-born Yamaoka, who names Depeche Mode, Metallica, and Angelo Badalamenti as his influences, initially wanted to be a designer, and graduated from Tokyo Art College, but fell under the sway of artists such as Mick Karn of Japan and Steve Strange of Visage, who, in Yamaoka's words, "combined the notions of Art and Music with their own new style." He debuted in 1991 with the soundtrack to Smart Ball game, done with Yasuhiko Fukuda and Manabu Saito; in 1993, he joined Konami and continued to work on game soundtracks, keeping a relatively low profile through most of the ‘90s. His big break came in 1999, when he convinced the producers that he was the man to score the first Silent Hill game. It was a best-seller, and Yamaoka became the main composer for the whole franchise (excluding two minor spin-offs), adding duties as the producer of the game after Silent Hill 3 (2003); since the third installment of the series he also began working with vocalists Mary Elizabeth McGlynn and Joe Romersa. Music from Silent Hill 2 was performed at the Symphonic Game Music Concert in Leipzig in 2005, and in 2006, some compositions from the series were included in the "Play! A Video Game Symphony" live performance, Yamaoka with a seven-string guitar sharing the stage with an orchestra at its world premiere in Chicago. His music for the games was used in the 2006 movie adaptation of Silent Hill, which also included work by Jeff Danna; the same year Yamaoka released his debut album, the electronica-leaning iFUTURELIST, and then did soudntracks for the two next Silent Hill games, Origins and Homecoming, which followed in 2007 and 2008 respectively.

Tracklist:
01. Jeff Danna And Akira Yamaoka - Nightmare
02. Jeff Danna And Akira Yamaoka - The Real World
03. Jeff Danna And Akira Yamaoka - Night Drive
04. Jeff Danna And Akira Yamaoka - Silent Hill
05. Jeff Danna And Akira Yamaoka - The Accident
06. Jeff Danna And Akira Yamaoka - She's Gone
07. Jeff Danna And Akira Yamaoka - Into The Mist
08. Jeff Danna And Akira Yamaoka - Police Help
09. Jeff Danna And Akira Yamaoka - Something's Wrong
10. Jeff Danna And Akira Yamaoka - Enter The Nightmare
11. Jeff Danna And Akira Yamaoka - Red Siren
12. Jeff Danna And Akira Yamaoka - Escape The Unknown
13. Jeff Danna And Akira Yamaoka - Sarah
14. Jeff Danna And Akira Yamaoka - Another Dimension
15. Jeff Danna And Akira Yamaoka - Assault
16. Jeff Danna And Akira Yamaoka - Pretty Much Dead
17. Jeff Danna And Akira Yamaoka - Summon The Horror
18. Jeff Danna And Akira Yamaoka - She's The Key
19. Jeff Danna And Akira Yamaoka - My Daughter
20. Jeff Danna And Akira Yamaoka - Evil Unleashed
21. Jeff Danna And Akira Yamaoka - The Dark Forces
22. Jeff Danna And Akira Yamaoka - Sanity
23. Jeff Danna And Akira Yamaoka - Triangle Head
24. Jeff Danna And Akira Yamaoka - Not Safe Anymore
25. Jeff Danna And Akira Yamaoka - The Evil Within
26. Jeff Danna And Akira Yamaoka - The Church
27. Jeff Danna And Akira Yamaoka - The Gates Of Hell
28. Jeff Danna And Akira Yamaoka - Sacrifice
29. Jeff Danna And Akira Yamaoka - Finding Home…Or Not
30. Jeff Danna And Akira Yamaoka - End Credits