Evil Does Not Exist (OST)

A deeply inspired synergistic exchange: music for images, visuals for sounds.

'Evil Does Not Exist' is an expansive soundtrack undertaking from Eiko Ishibashi, a stellar further display of her ability to explicate the depths of the unspoken in her music. That it is also the soundtrack to the new Ryusuke Hamaguchi feature is marvelous news for all who loved her score for his Oscar-winning 2021 film, 'Drive My Car'. That her music harmonizes effortlessly with the state of nature as depicted in his film, a nuanced tale of humans’ uneasy efforts to maintain co-existence with the delicate state of the planet, is a further profound achievement. At play here, though, is much more than fantastic new music from a powerful new film — it is evidence of a vital recomposition of the relationship of sound to narrative, and composer to filmmaker.