Last Train Home “Song composed by the guitarist Pat Metheny and which is included as the ending of the Anime JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Stardust Crusader. Arc that narrates the journey of Kujo Jotaro with his grandfather Joseph Joestar and his friends, to Cairo (Egypt) to save his mother.
Above all, we must highlight the tremendous concept of the composition where the percussion creates an atmosphere that makes us feel the movement of the locomotive, feel that typical rattle, that movement of the train journey, it is a really sensational and precious theme at the same time. One could use a locomotive sound in the background without adjusting it to the tempo of the song and still create a symbiosis related to how we really perceive reality (the beauty of perceiving the perfect in an imperfect way).
The harmony of the work is in the key of Bb and continues like this:
Bb | C / Bb | Ab | Bb | % | Dm | Gm | Eb |
F7sus4 | % | F7 | Gm | D / F # | Gm7 / F | Eb | % |
Dm | Gm | Dm | Gm | % | Eb6 (9) (# 11) | % | % |
F | Bb | F / Bb | Gm | F / G | Bb | F / Bb | Gm | F / G |
It is worth mentioning the concept of “train travel” as the bridge between life and death, as described by Kenji Miyasawa in his novel “Night on the Galactic Railroad.” And that gives a lot of sense to this ending, due to the events that occurred in the final chapters of the arc.
Finally, to mention that part of the style of all the seasons of JoJo’s Bisarre adventures choose as ending Master songs of various bands (Yes, Bangles, Savage Garden, Jodeci), which I like since it invites the listener (basically the young audience ) to enjoy this music that has marked previous generations.
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