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Browse piano sheets by Yoko Kanno on Zen Virtual Piano. Yoko Kanno is a composer whose screen music moves between musical worlds rather than staying inside one genre. Her scores include The Vision of Escaflowne, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex and Cowboy Bebop. She first met director Shinichirō Watanabe while working on Macross Plus. When he asked for a jazz-oriented Cowboy Bebop, she thought she could make it work, even while doubting its commercial prospects. For that series, Kanno assembled The Seatbelts to perform her score. Jazz sits alongside country, blues and funk, with live recordings made in one or a few takes. She recorded the music before visual footage was available; instead of writing alongside finished images, she explained, the film adapted itself to the music. Piano Black belongs to this ensemble setting, with saxophone solos returning to a central piano motif. Kanno described her broader approach through ordinary human feeling: everyday emotions, she believed, would endure even in a future set far out in space.
Browse piano sheets by Yoko Kanno on Zen Virtual Piano.
Yoko Kanno is a composer whose screen music moves between musical worlds rather than staying inside one genre. Her scores include The Vision of Escaflowne, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex and Cowboy Bebop. She first met director Shinichirō Watanabe while working on Macross Plus. When he asked for a jazz-oriented Cowboy Bebop, she thought she could make it work, even while doubting its commercial prospects.
For that series, Kanno assembled The Seatbelts to perform her score. Jazz sits alongside country, blues and funk, with live recordings made in one or a few takes. She recorded the music before visual footage was available; instead of writing alongside finished images, she explained, the film adapted itself to the music.
Piano Black belongs to this ensemble setting, with saxophone solos returning to a central piano motif. Kanno described her broader approach through ordinary human feeling: everyday emotions, she believed, would endure even in a future set far out in space.
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They are the musicians Kanno assembled to perform the Cowboy Bebop score, rather than a name for a solo piano project.
Kanno said it was originally background music for a battle scene. Its later use as Cowboy Bebop’s opening was not its initial purpose.
She associated Spike’s elusive, detached character with jazz, while describing funk, soul and blues as fitting the antagonists’ fatalism.