I just read the book while listening to this song loop. Honestly, once you entrance yourself within the storyline, even the scene where
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...Batou's car crashes, and he's nearly killed becomes something very ethereal, creating an atmosphere completely parallel yet different enough from its more-than-direct sequel (the novel ends with Batou receiving a call to go to a crime scene, suspect - a gynoid with two cops dead and one other murder victim).
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The song which was used is a rather energetic for its genre song, completely capturing the sentimental and rather lethargic heartbeat that courses through the morose blues that one might expect to find in an old cafe in the very heart and shadow of a city. A trumpet steadily climbs and claws into a wailing melody of the broken heart, outlining and dancing around the much slower, and often abruptly ascending piano, which usually stumbles to a quick and powerful end, giving way to the trumpet's beckoning once more.
I don't know who chose that song, whether it was Masaki Yamada, or Mamoru Oshii, but the individual should be greatly commended on their superb choice. The songs embodies the mood of both Batou as a person, the rather surreal, dilatory world, and the dispirited and heavy-hearted emotions that follow the reality we're subjected into.
Mmmmm I love that book!mm
