Saxophone: Zac Zinger (Composer and woodwind player for Street Fighter V, Jump Force, Mobile Suit Gundam: Side stories, and more)įlute: Kevin Penkin (Series composer, Made in Abyss, Rising of the Shield Hero, more) Synth/Additional Sound Design: Jason Walsh (Senior composer and sound designer at Hexany Audio with recent credits including Overwatch Contenders, PUBG Mobile, and League of Legends)īass: Matthew Hines (Touring bassist with recent gigs including the Jonas Brothers, Ledisi, Summer Walker, Kiana Lede, Bazzi, and more)ĭrums: Kevin Brown (Touring drummer with recent gigs including Jason Hawk Harris, the Southern California Brass Consortium, and more) Guitar: David McLean (Guitarist on Beyblade Burst, One Minute Melee, host of Animyze) Keys: Ed Goldfarb (Series Composer, Pokémon: The Animated Series) Organ: Robbie Benson (Band leader, Super Soul Bros) Mix / Additional Guitar: Masahiro Aoki (Legendary former composer at Capcom with credits on Megaman, Street Fighter V, Astral Chain, and more) Here are the complete albums, all seven of them in a single playlist. That changed in July this year, when all the Seatbelts’ (which is the name of the band that Kanno got together to produce the Bebop OST) work was finally up on Spotify. It also helped that her music, specifically the Cowboy Bebop OST was not on Spotify, my music application of choice. There is a joy to traversing half-forgotten pathways in your brain, when you find yourself being able to anticipate the harkat in an instrumental solo milliseconds before the fact, or when your body tenses at the aneurysm-inducing chorus that is about to hit. Yoko Kanno’s music never really faded from my life, but like other artistes I enjoy and have heard in depth, I would return to the fountain of her album with delicate steps, drinking lightly, trying not to let the taste get too over-familiar. Susheela Raman’s Love Trap.) Oh, lookit, I used to rave about her music so much, back in the day.

(Other names in that list, you ask? The OST of Kill Bill. It became not only as my favorite anime OST album of all time, but was high on the list of genre-bending musical works that have inspired me to keep looking for, and appreciating, new music.

The soundtrack to Cowboy Bebop was one of the foundational albums of my life.

Once upon a time, a decade and a half ago, to be precise, I was introduced to the work of composer Yoko Kanno, and spent endless hours swimming in her music.

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