Will Power is a 1987 album

Album

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 by Joe Jackson

Joe Jackson (musician)

Joe Jackson is an English musician and singer-songwriter now living in Berlin, whose five Grammy Award nominations span from 1979 to 2001...

. It is his first experiment with classical music

Classical music

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, continued in later albums including Night Music

Night Music (album)

Night Music is an 1994 album by Joe Jackson.With Night Music and the subsequent effort, Heaven and Hell , his retirement from the mainstream seemed permanent. Night Music attempted to fuse his pop and classical tastes, including instrumentals and guest vocals by Máire Brennan of Clannad, but it did...

, Heaven and Hell

Heaven and Hell (Joe Jackson album)

Heaven & Hell is a 1997 album by Joe Jackson, a musical interpretation and song cycle representing the seven deadly sins.Billed to Joe Jackson & Friends; the friends included vocalists Dawn Upshaw , Joy Askew , Suzanne Vega , Brad Roberts from the Crash Test Dummies , Jane Siberry Heaven & Hell is...

, and Symphony No. 1

Symphony No. 1 (album)

Symphony No. 1 is a 1999 album by Joe Jackson. Jackson received a Grammy for Best Pop Instrumental Album in 2001, after several unsuccessful nominations for previous work. Symphony No...

.

In the winter of 1985, Jackson had been commissioned to write a 20 minute score for a Japan

Japan

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ese film

Film

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, Shijin No Ie (House of the Poet), and the orchestra

Orchestra

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l piece was recorded

Sound recording and reproduction

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 with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra

Tokyo Symphony Orchestra

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. Jackson adapted it into "Symphony in One Movement" and added other instrumental

Instrumental

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pieces, which set the stage for things to come later.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Joe Jackson.

1. "No Pasaran" – 6:07
2. "Solitude" – 9:37
3. "Will Power" – 5:52
4. "Nocturne" – 4:25
5. "Symphony in One Movement" – 16:14