I'm now going over all the discography of Hisaishi and here is the song I like the most of all the Hisaishi stuff I've heard.
It's from the album My lost City: "Drifting in the city"
http://two.xthost.info/katchum3/05_-_pr ... e_city.mp3
=> The modulation to that far away chord is really something.
=> The sequence + nice melody is memorable.
Other honorable mentions are:
- Oriental Wind: Instrumentation is very nice, especially the youtube version with the chinese violin.
- Les Aventuriers: I like gypsy music
- Friends: Very nice melody, full of emotion
- Angel Springs: One of the best songs I have heard, Hisaishi uses modulations that flow into each other in eternity, ever growing in climax. Never ending climax!
- Tasmania Monogatari: Hisaishi is a master in sequences.
(I'm surprised that my harmony sounds a lot like Hisaishi, and I've never heard of him before!)