YAMANAIAME (Album)

This album holds the original songs Hiroyuki Sawano composed for Attack on Titan Part 1: Guren no Yumiya, the first theatrical recap of the anime. Pony Canyon released it on November 19, 2014 with a running time of 30:10.

In the franchise's release order it sits between the "Attack on Titan" Original Soundtrack II and the Guren no Yumiya original soundtrack that followed the film itself.

Seven tracks fill the disc. The title song YAMANAIAME opens it, sung by Mica Caldito, mpi, and Mika Kobayashi with lyrics by Benjamin and mpi. So ist es Immer comes second, performed by Benjamin with words from Rie, Benjamin, and mpi, followed by The Reluctant Heroes MODv, a Mica Caldito vocal with lyrics by mpi.

A movie edit of YAMANAIAME occupies the fourth slot, and the record closes with instrumental renditions of all three vocal songs in the same order they first appeared.

Sawano produced the album, with Yasushi Horiguchi of Legendoor co-producing and directing. Mitsunori Aizawa of SIGN SOUND served as recording and mixing engineer and Pro Tools operator, and Yuji Chinone mastered the release at Sony Music Studios Tokyo.

Recording took place at Studio Sound Valley and Bunkamura Studios, with mixing at Studio Sound Valley and assistant engineering from Sho Suzuki and Masayuki Tsuruta.