Mai Yamane

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Mai Yamane

(山根麻衣, 山根麻以)
Born 9th October 1958
Origin Japan, Izumo (出雲市)
Genre(s) Jazz, Blues
Occupation(s) Singer-songwriter
Years active since 1980
Website http://www.futsuunouta.net/F_mai.html

Mai Yamane (山根 麻以 Yamane Mai?) is a Japanese singer, well known for her work on the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack with Yoko Kanno. Her career started at the very beginning of 80's when she participated in a young singer's contest in Japan. Six months later she finished her first album. She recorded as a solo artist until 1995, releasing albums like The Day Before Yesterday (1984), Flying Elephants (1985), Embassy (1986), Woman Tone (1988) and 1958 (1989). She has also collaborated with many artists, e.g. in 1993 she worked on project Yamane Mai Kubota Haruo Unit with Haruo Kubota. In 1995 she started playing with New Archaic Smile. At present, she has recorded 11 albums. The last time she performed abroad was on 20 Jun 2007 in Seoul, as a member of Yoko Kanno team.

[edit] New Archaic Smile

New Archaic Smile (NAS) is a Japanese band, where Mai Yamane is a vocalist. The band's philosophy is to have a smile for the 21st century world. Besides Mai, there are also two other members of the Yamane family: Mai's sister Eiko Yamane and brother Satoru Yamane. The rest of the band are Sano brothers Satoshi and Atsushi. In 1997 the Futsuu no Uta project was born in collaboration with June Chiki Chikuma. She recorded 3 more albums with New Archaic Smile: Kin no Himo in 2001, Yasashii kimochi in 2003 and Yakitori no uta in 2004.

[edit] Vocals (anime)

Cowboy Bebop OST:

  • "Want It All Back"
  • "Pushing The Sky"
  • "Rain" (Demo version)
  • "Don't Bother None"
  • "See You Space Cowboy"
  • "Mushroom Hunting" (Live version)
  • "Blue" (Last episode ending song)
  • "Gotta Knock a Little Harder"
  • "The Real Folk Blues" (Ending Song)

Black Jack OST:

  • "Invisible Love" (Starting and ending song)

Mirage of Blaze OST:

  • "Vision of Flames "
  • "Tears of Indigo" (Ending song)
  • "Blaze"
  • "Pearly Gate"
  • "Insanity"
  • "Chikai ~ Book of the Days"
  • "Lamentation" (feat. Yoko Ueno)

Macross Plus OST:

  • "After in the dark "

Vision of Escaflowne OST:

  • "If You"

Darker Than BLACK OST:

  • "ScatCat"
  • "No One's Home"

Elegant World OST:

  • "Look It Up "
  • "Bad Boyz"
  • "Time Doing Time"


Mai Yamane has also performed at the NGO Global Village during Expo 2005 in Aichi, Japan. In 2002 she had a concert in Paris.

In 2000 Yamane Mai also performed at Inochi no Matsuri, The "Festival of Life" in Nagano, Japan.

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