Yoko Kanno

[Varaj]

Ok I'm digging this chippie's music
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoko_Kanno

Ex:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQZRjndfz3Y

[Bagpuss]

That's a pretty boring video. Seriously if you are going to have japanese pop/soundtrack you could at least pick something with a hot chick in the video like.

Ayumi Hamasaki
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmI5w71p7JY

or
Tamaki Nami
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKCqx032MHU

Ooooh new one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImEK6VOX4hc

[Enk]

My first real exposure to her was her work on Cowboy Bebop, with the Seatbelts. I've been in musical lurve ever since.

[Dr_Avalanche]

I'm a big fan of Yoko Kanno ever since I saw the opening theme of Cowboy Bebop:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=T6zDfxZ4NcE

And the ending theme is just as good (here performed live):

http://youtube.com/watch?v=mD83P-vn5JI

[Brynja]

I adore her work...I own several compliation CDs

[Dr. Cherry Gunn]

I marvel at the number of J-Pop fans that would gag if you asked them if they liked Bananarama or Spice Girls. :D

[Varaj]

I marvel at the number of J-Pop fans that would gag if you asked them if they liked Bananarama or Spice Girls. :D

Watch the youtube I posted, hardly J-Pop

Yoko Kanno (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, seminal anime films, TV series, live-action movies, and advertisements. She has written scores for famous animated works, including Macross Plus, Cowboy Bebop, Vision of Escaflowne and Wolf's Rain, and is the most trusted composer by veteran and new-wave directors such as Yoshiyuki Tomino, Shinichiro Watanabe and Shoji Kawamori.[1] Kanno has also composed music for JPop artists, the most notable being Maaya Sakamoto and Kyoko Koizumi. She is also a skilled keyboardist, and is the frontress for The Seatbelts, who perform many of Kanno's compositions on the various original soundtracks for which she is responsible.

[Dr. Cherry Gunn]

Watch the youtube I posted, hardly J-Pop

Quite so, although there was only sound, no video when I clicked on it.

If yours wasn't J-Pop, then I clearly wasn't talking about yours.

[Bagpuss]

I marvel at the number of J-Pop fans that would gag if you asked them if they liked Bananarama or Spice Girls. :D

Really I wouldn't be one of them.... I happily admit I have no problems with Bananarama or the Spice Girls. I'm a big fan of ABBA too. :tongue:

[Dr. Cherry Gunn]

Really I wouldn't be one of them.... I happily admit I have no problems with Bananarama or the Spice Girls. I'm a big fan of ABBA too. :tongue:

I pretty much like all three and the stuff posted above too. :D

[Northcott]

Man. 9 years since Bebop arrived to rock the world. Kanno's brilliant jazz-infused opening made me grin from ear to ear when I first saw and heard that display. It was like a minute and a half of pure, undilluted cool birthed into the world.