My review of CM Yoko by Yoko Kanno is now up at Blogcritics Magazine. Here's an excerpt:Although best known in the U.S. as a top composer for anime such as Cowboy Bebop and Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Yoko Kanno has had a lengthy and varied career. She has composed for live-action films, TV series and specials, and video games in addition to producing for other artists. However, h...
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I have just posted my review of the GITS:SAC SSS OST (I'm sorry but I can't write that incredibly long title again) on my main blog. Here's an excerpt:The Solid State Society OST is the fifth soundtrack from the GITS:SAC franchise, coming after OSTs 1-3 and Be Human. You might think that with four other albums preceding it that the SSS OST might just be the dregs. Fortunately, this is not the c...
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An honest to goodness Internet musical scavenger hunt. Hit that red button up there now. I came up with 10 questions to test your Internet searching mettle. Many of the questions will take you to specific sites on the Web. Some of the questions require you to read into the site to find the answers. So here they are and good luck. Post your answers in comments when you find them all or when you ...
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Yoko Kanno’s most recent release is OST 4 for Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex which can only be found in a new box set with all the other soundtracks (OSTs 1-3, Be Human, and Solid State Society OST ).For OST 4 , Kanno has done something interesting. The album consists of only one track, dubbed “Smooth Inside The Shell (No Break Disk),” that is a 49-minute-long compilation of unrelea
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Here's one more Yoko Kanno track for you today. It's an instrumental track from the anime Turn A Gundam. It's basically a nice, relaxed jazz tune that probably wouldn't have sounded out of place on Cowboy Bebop.Enjoy this laidback track. Oh, and isn't the title great?
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My review of CM Yoko by Yoko Kanno is now up at Blogcritics Magazine. Here's an excerpt:Although best known in the U.S. as a top composer for anime such as Cowboy Bebop and Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Yoko Kanno has had a lengthy and varied career. She has composed for live-action films, TV series and specials, and video games in addition to producing for other artists. However, h...
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I'm a big fan of composer Yoko Kanno's works and up until recently, I posted songs from her twice a week.I had noticed a couple of times that some of her work sounded uncomfortably close to the work of others. However, as other Yoko Kanno fans have dug deeper, they have found that "uncomfortably close" doesn't even begin to describe it.A Japanese site has posted some YouTube videos that are qu...
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