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01. Midori Hirano - The Juniper Tree
02. Midori Hirano - Far Above
03. Midori Hirano - Spell On You
04. Midori Hirano - Temptation
05. Midori Hirano - What Connects The Two
06. Midori Hirano - The Dead Count
07. Midori Hirano - You Can See What We Can't See
08. Midori Hirano - Take Me With You
09. Midori Hirano - Mother's Path
10. Midori Hirano - In A Glass Box
11. Midori Hirano - Midnight
12. Midori Hirano - Silencing
13. Midori Hirano - Bird Sleeping In Water
14. Midori Hirano - A Piece Of Him
15. Midori Hirano - Good Bye
16. Midori Hirano - Forever In The Sky
ARTIST
TITLE
The Juniper Tree
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
VIERNULV 019CD VIERNULV 019CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
10/2/2026

While composing the music for The Juniper Tree, Midori Hirano drew on her own memories of touring Iceland, which included a stop at a waterfall featured in the film and rendered in sound on "Mother's Path." Folktales, like the origins of The Juniper Tree, are often attempts to contend with humans' place in the natural world, with all its mysteries and intricacies, and both the film and Hirano's soundtrack draw their sense of breathless wonder in part from the sensation of being engulfed by one's environment. Margit, played by Björk, possesses a sublime sensitivity to her environment that allows her to receive messages from her mother, who was murdered for their shared inheritance of witchcraft. Hirano captures the relationship between the transcendental awe that is felt as supernatural and the private feelings of being immersed in that experience, creating a musical dialogue between the self and what lies beyond. In the final sentences of her liner notes describing the film's philosophical and feminist throughlines, Anna Bogutskaya says, "what we call Margit's witchcraft is maybe just her willingness to listen." This is the magic of music, and Hirano composes with an alchemist's pen. Just as Keene seems to break down barriers between binary poles, Hirano uses both electronic and acoustic means to communicate the film's emotive cues, uniting approaches she has explored under her own name and the alias MimiCof. There is an understanding that stillness can be understood as peaceful or foreboding, that dissonance and consonance are contextual, that efforts to protect one's own kin can lead to tragic ends. At the film's end the audience sees Margit enthralled with birdsong, understanding it as something deeper, a connection to those she has lost. Through sound, listeners understand what lies beyond sight, beyond convention, and with this new soundtrack they hear the story anew.