It has been called some of the most riveting 59 seconds of music ever recorded for Japanese animation; the cornerstone representative of jazz in anime. Brutally bald-faced in its dense complexity and awe-inspiring in its effortless virtuosity, these 68 measures have become nigh-legendary in the tangential overlap of the jazz and anime communities. I’m talking, [...]
Tag Archives: Cowboy Bebop
Cowboy Bebop: Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door OST- Future Blues – Review
Album Title: Cowboy Bebop: Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door OST Future Blues Anime Title: Cowboy Bebop: Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door Artist: Yoko Kanno, The Seatbelts, Mai Yamane, Steve Conte, Hideyuki Takahashi, Hassan Bohmide, Aoi Tada, Mayu Jensen, Tim Jensen, Mataro Misawa, Gabriela Robin Catalog Number: VICL-60756 Release Type: Soundtrack Release Date: August 29, 2001 Purchase at: CDJapan
Posted in Soundtrack Reviews Also tagged Cowboy Bebop Movie, Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door, Jazz, Jazz Rock, Review, Rock, Soundtrack, The Seatbelts, Yoko Kanno 4 Comments
Composer of the Month – Yoko Kanno
Overview: Among the most prolific of anime composers, Yoko Kanno stands as one of the most loved and sought-after songwriters in the industry. Her works are particularly notable for covering a huge swath of genres; from the pumping synth-techno of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex to the sweeping spiritual chanting of Earth Girl [...]
Posted in Composer Profiles Also tagged Composer Profile, Earth Girl Arjuna, Escaflowne, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Jazz, Maaya Sakamoto, Macross Frontier, Macross Plus, Magnetic Rose, orchestral, Please Save My Earth, Porco Rosso, Rock, Sousei no Aquarion, Turn A Gundam, Wolf's Rain, Yoko Kanno 17 Comments
Cowboy Bebop (Soundtrack) – Review
Album Title: Cowboy Bebop Anime Title: Cowboy Bebop Artist: Yoko Kanno and The Seatbelts Catalog Number: VICL-60201 Release Type: Soundtrack Release Date: May 21, 1998 Purchase at: CDJapan
English Lyric Anime Songs – Serious Songs for Serious Anime
English language theme songs are rare in anime, but it recently occurred to me that some of them rank among the best I’ve heard used in the medium. If there’s a tendency in the use of songs sung by native English speakers, especially those that appear on this list, it’s that they’re more somber and [...]
Posted in Editorials Also tagged Ally Kerr, Boa, David Sylvian, Editorial, Gankutsuou, Gunslinger Girl, Jean-Jacques Burnel, monster, Mushishi, Serial Experiments Lain, the delgados, The Seatbelts 17 Comments
