Lakeshore Records is set to release The 
Silent Service—Prime Video Original Motion Picture Soundtrack digitally today, May 17, featuring music by composer Yoshihiro Ike (Shadowverse). The tension-filled orchestral score mixes eerie, mournful strings with heavy percussion to create a forbidding backdrop to the naval thriller. The film and TV series starring Takao Osawa are streaming now on Prime Video.
The Silent Service is a popular manga series written and illustrated by artist Kaiji Kawaguchi, which was published in Kodansha’s Weekly Morningmanga magazine from 1988 to 1996, and has sold a total of 32 million copies.
The story, set in Japan’s first nuclear submarine, depicts the unpredictable actions of its captain, Shiro Kaieda, as he attempts to realize his ideal world. The story makes audience think about true peace amidst the tension of the complex intermingling of the thoughts of various nations.
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Track List
- Silent Service Main Title
- Tatsunami Sail
- Crushing
- Flood
- Fukamachi’s Intuition
- Water Pressure
- The Plan Seabat
- Departure of Yamato
- Swamp
- Kaieda Rebellion
- Their Mission
- Nuclear Payload
- The Course Towards the Mariana Trench
- Departure of Tatsunami
- Deployment of the Seventh Fleet
- The Course Towards the Philippine Sea
- Broach
- The Warhead Is Not Ordinary
- Seabat vs. Ronald Reagan
- Independent State of Yamato
- The Wrath of Leviathan
- Torpedo Battle Stations, Ready
- Asroc Launch
- The Whale’s Lament
- Rough Seas
- Southern Cross Descent
- Prime Minister Takegami’s Decision
- Rough Waves
- The Whale Swimming
- Tatsunami’s Struggle
- The Abandonment of Nuclear Weapons
- Calm
- Harusame Was Hit
- The Determination of Japan
- Good or Bad
- The Will of Yamato
- Tatsunami Surfacing
- Silent Service Main Title (Short Version)
ABOUT YOSHIHIRO IKE
Yoshihiro Ike (池 頼広, Ike Yoshihiro) is a Japanese composer, music arranger, and bassist. He makes his major-label debut in 1987 as a bassist in the band Aike Band.Later, he plays the bass for renowned musicians in LA.
He is best known for scoring and composing music for film, TV dramas, anime and video games. He has worked on over 100 titles in the last 20 years. His most recognized composing works are『AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo』series (2002–present), 『Tiger & Bunny』(2011＆2022), 『Saint Seiya: Legend of Sanctuary』 (2014), 『Shadowverse』（2016- present）『B: The Beginning』 (2018), 『Dororo』(2019),『Knights of the Zodiac:Saint Seiya』(2019- present), 『Knights of the Zodiac The Beginning』(2023), and 『The Silent Service』(2023)
His score for the anime film, Blood: The Last Vampire, was nominated for the 2000 UK Music Awards under the soundtrack category, and subsequently awarded the top prize at the Japan Media Arts Festival in 2001 by the Agency for Cultural affairs. In 2018, Shadowverse original soundtracks became the highest-ranking album on iTunes, surpassing Shallow by Lady Gaga.
In 2019, He hold an orchestral concert at Anime Expo 2019. Ike’s collection of anime soundtracks from Tiger & Bunny, Saint Seiya, B: The Beginning, and Dororo as well as his works on game soundtracks from Rage of Bahamut: Genesis and Shadowverse will be performed in his first international concert with over 50 of musicians from Los Angeles and Nashville, along with a special performance by a koto harpist and a shakuhachi flutist from Japan.
In 1988, he joined David T. Walker’s solo album Ahimsa as a bassist in Los Angeles.
In 1994, he starts composing for movies, series, anime, and games.
In 2012, Ike won the 35th Japan Academy Film Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Music Award for his work on The Detective Is in the Bar.
In 2023, Ike won the 46th Japan Academy Film Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Music Award for his work on Anime Supremacy! (film).
ABOUT LAKESHORE RECORDS
Lakeshore Records is a GRAMMY-winning record label, and the soundtrack arm of the Cutting Edge Group. Lakeshore Records is the global independent leader in top line soundtrack album releases, including such popular, critically acclaimed and classic soundtracks as Bridgerton, Drive, Stranger Things, The Old Guard, Cyberpunk 2077, When They See Us, The Handmaid’s Tale, Black Mirror, Star Trek: Picard, Bojack Horseman, Les Miserables, Mandy, Narcos, Logan, The Walking Dead, Napoleon Dynamite, Bill and Ted Face the Music, Red Dead Redemption 2, Legion, the Grammy-winning Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarok, the Academy Award nominated Lady Bird and Academy Award winners Moonlight, Little Miss Sunshine, American Factory, If Beale Street Could Talk and The Hurt Locker and many, many more.
Lakeshore Records works with the most respected, award-winning artists and composers such as Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Nicholas Britell, Hans Zimmer, Grimes, Common, Jonny Greenwood, Mica Levi, Tim Hecker, Hildur Gudnadóttir, Sam Slater, Stephanie Economou, Willie Nelson, Alexandre Desplat, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, Run the Jewels, PJ Harvey, Philip Glass, Aloe Blacc, Willie Nelson, Rhiannon Ghiddens, Daniel Lanois, Nicholas Britell, Ziggy Marley, Danny Elfman, Giorgio Moroder, Aska Matsumiya, Clint Mansell, Bootsie Collins, Thomas Newman, Kris Bowers, Cliff Martinez, Randy Newman, James Horner, Gunship, Mark Isham, Kathryn Bostic, Carter Burwell, Bear McCreary, Emile Mosseri, Rolfe Kent, Josh Homme, Gustavo Santaolalla, Nina Kraviz, Dario Marianelli, Mark Mothersbaugh, The JBs, Gazelle Twin, Mary J. Blige, Christophe Beck, Rachel Portman, Amanda Jones, Jeff Russo, Henry Jackman, Marco Beltrami, Ben Lovett, Keegan Dewitt and many many more.
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