Yoko Kanno is the closest person to being the international face of the anime music industry, thanks to her involvement with high-profile projects such as Cowboy Bebop and Ghost in the Shell. She also wrote scores for TV series, movies, and video games, and songs for pop artists, and the list of ad jingles commissioned to her reads like a "who's who" list of the contemporary economic system. The demand for her services should be attributed to her ultimate versatility: Kanno can compose in any given style, from ambient and neoclassical music to techno and hard rock, never sounding strained or forced.
Kanno was born in 1964 in Miyagi Prefecture. She was taught music early on, and at 10 she became the youngest winner of the Yamaha piano competition. Later, she studied in the Parisian Conservatory for Music and Dance and then joined the prestigious Waseda University, where her fondness for jazz flourished, leading her to debut on the musical scene as the keyboardist and the occasional songwriter for the band Testu 100%, with which Kanno collaborated between 1986-1989. Along with that, she began her career as a professional composer, composing her first score for the Japanese video game Romance of the Three Kingdoms in 1985. She continued writing music for games by Koei up until 1994, and branched out into pop field in 1988, when she first collaborated with Chiyono Yoshino (Keiko Nakajima and Kyoko Endo followed suit).
Tracklist:
01 - The Usual Fools
02 - Tank! (Fix Mix)
03 - Kickin' Colt
04 - Cat Attack Part 1
05 - Net Rush
06 - Bye Mel
07 - Meet My Mom
08 - Rooftop Kung-Fu
09 - Milky Cheat
10 - Blood Brothers
11 - Woodcock
12 - Santo City
13 - Bad Company Blues
14 - Julia's Song
15 - The Fate Of Three
16 - Lord Of The Empty
17 - Birdcaged
18 - Waltz In High Socks
19 - Fother Muckers
20 - Chasin'
21 - Ana's At 3AM
22 - Funky Stuff
23 - Afterglow
24 - The Adventures Of Losers
25 - Whistle And Afternoon
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