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菅野よう子 (Kanno Yōko), born March 19, 1964 in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, is a composer, arranger and musician best known for her work on the soundtracks for many games, anime films, TV series, live-action movies, and advertisements. She has written scores for famous animated works, including Macross Plus, Turn A Gundam, Cowboy Bebop, The Vision of Escaflowne, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Wolf’s Rain, and is the most trusted composer by veteran and new-wave directors such as Yoshiyuki Tomino, Shinichiro Watanabe and Shoji Kawamori.
Kanno has also composed music for pop artists, the most notable being 坂本真綾 (Maaya Sakamoto) and 小泉今日子 (Kyōko Koizumi). She is also a skilled keyboardist, and is the frontwoman for The Seatbelts, who perform many of Kanno’s compositions on the various original soundtracks for which she is responsible.
Some of her most famous soundtrack themes include “Voices” (Macross Plus), “The Real Folk Blues” (Cowboy Bebop), “Yakusoku wa Iranai” (Escaflowne), “Gravity” (Wolf’s Rain), and “Inner Universe” (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex). She was the lead member of the project band called The Seatbelts, which regrouped in the year of 2004 to compose the soundtrack of the PlayStation 2 Cowboy Bebop video game, released in Japan in 2005.
Her early career includes her part in the jazz band てつ100％. She has composed for many Koei games released during the late 1980s to early 1990s and for Napple Tale, a Dreamcast game. Due to her close involvement in the Cowboy Bebop anime, the game released by Bandai also features her work.
Some of her most famous soundtrack themes include “Voices” (Macross Plus), “The Real Folk Blues” (Cowboy Bebop), “Yakusoku wa Iranai” (Escaflowne), “Gravity” (Wolf’s Rain), and “Inner Universe” (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex). She was the lead member of the project band called The Seatbelts, which regrouped in the year of 2004 to compose the soundtrack of the PlayStation 2 Cowboy Bebop video game, released in Japan in 2005.
Her early career includes her part in the jazz band てつ100％. She has composed for many Koei games released during the late 1980s to early 1990s and for Napple Tale, a Dreamcast game. Due to her close involvement in the Cowboy Bebop anime, the game released by Bandai also features her work.
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TheFatChocobo wrote:
Wow, thank you for alerting me to that! Kanno working on new music is exciting enough, but what makes it 1000000x better is that Shinichiro Watanabe is finally directing another series... and with Kanno to boot. Bebop and Champloo are both among my favorites.
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porucupine wrote:
Can't fucking wait to see Sakamichi no Apollon's premiere.
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TheFatChocobo wrote:
Right on, Excrono.
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Excrono wrote:
That being said, I had originally just come to say that I didn't like the new artist picture...and it looks like I was able to do something about it, hehehe.
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Excrono wrote:
@emaskye: You know, I've been thinking a lot about this and have come to the conclusion (especially after exploring the history of Jazz music) that borrowing from compositions from others isn't really bad from a musical perspective and only encourages creativity and innovation. Most of these are songs are a step up from the source, so that has to mean something. I think the only issue people have is the legal one of whether the artists were compensated, which is kind of petty when you get right down to it. But who are we to worry out over that? I'm pretty sure that the record labels she has released under made sure everything was done legally; there would be way too much liability on their part for them not to do so. Especially if you consider that many times the director/producer signed off on wanting a Jimmy Hart version of some piece of music he/she though would be cool for a scene in their animation. We can dock points when she releases a solo album of original "stolen" material.
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pandora_uzumaki wrote:
Escaflowne <3
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miranditaG wrote:
<3
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Mixch wrote:
mmmmmm ^^
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kabi-iwaki wrote:
I updated the info n_n!
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Dethfucker wrote:
Amazing
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PedroCorvino wrote:
Yeah, this ripoff thing turns me off, but I'd like to hear what she has to say about it
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sweetjeannine wrote:
<3 Escaflowne
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mast3rjke wrote:
♥ \ (^ - ^) / ♥
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VS-1 wrote:
what the fuck is going on here
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emaskye wrote:
there's no acknowledgment on blue's liner notes, which doesn't sit quite right with me (http://tinyurl.com/btxd4my) but DJ FOOD likely knew/was compensated, having written a remix for no disc
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emaskye wrote:
i don't remember saying anything about ELO or ravel, did i? :P
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TheFatChocobo wrote:
Well, it's just your all's loss, anyway. Bummer that you can't enjoy some of our time's best music!
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emaskye wrote:
maybe i can accept her work on cowboy bebop... that show throws out enough homages as it is, the soundtrack almost makes sense in that context lol
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emaskye wrote:
(and if you think that the quality of media is better served by idly "borrowing" other people's music than by having an original voice or vision for the thing you're giving music to then i can't really argue with you, you'll fit right into most hollywood movies though i guess)
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emaskye wrote:
@TFC: there are far more links on his website than just the youtube videos (http://yokokanno.ojaru.jp/); some are a little tenuous but there are a disturbing amount that hit it nearly bang-on... try "scooters" and "mr. blue sky" (or "searching for the shadow of umbrella" and ravel's string quartet), tbh i'd rather she just post her "remakes" for free on a website and give people who know how to write music without lifting large quantities of it a chance at a living
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