Talk:Yoko Kanno/Archive 1

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Keyboard

Isn't Yoko Kanno a keyboard player, also?


I'd think that all composers are capable of using a keyboard.

Yep, Yoko Kanno knows her way around a keyboard, and I have added this. For what it's worth, her husband is primarily a cellist, although he's also an active composer; it's not clear whether he can play piano.--ByrnedHead 10:38, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)


It'd be great if somebody could pin down the exact genre of music Yoko does. And I'm not talking about "soundtrack". If they could possibly(preferably) also add in some similar artists, that would rock... Hard. ~Mopey

Tricky one. I'm not sure her music is categorisable. Is there a musical genre that she hasn't touched? Heliocentric 13:25, August 10, 2005 (UTC)


Well I was thinking along the lines of most of her Cowboy Bebop music. Is the genre Bebop? If so then looking for a genre when downloading things is a really awful way of going about finding good music. Definately going to need some similar artists. ~Mopey

In fitting in with their referring to the series, as a genre, as "Space Jazz," the genre of its soundtrack's music is Jazz. Not Bebop. I think there's a difference, but I'm not very familiar with Bebop as a genre. MasterXiam 05:31, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
Bebop is a subset of jazz, and there is some bebop in the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack, but the soundtrack also includes some classical, neo classical, zydeco, world music, retro pop and rock. And I'm sure I've forgotten something. Several somethings. Canonblack 17:53, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Kanno's genre varies from song to song. You can't place a single genre on her music. You can't even place a single genre on an entire anime series she has done, or even an album. On top of this, many of her songs blend genres or seem to be genres all their own. -Kaji

The term usually used to describe music that cannot be classified as any one genre, particularly in the case of Yoko's whirlwhind of styles, is "Art Rock." Art Rock bands typically have nothing in common except that their music defies all classification by rising above genre labels. See http://www.progarchives.com/subgenre.asp?style=3 (a better definition than the one Wikipedia uses and from a more authoritative source). -EvilNight

Kingdom Hearts

She composed for kingdom hearts? Where did you get that from?

I don't believe she worked on Kingdom Hearts at all. That was composed by Yoko Shimomura, who has had a past of game compositions for Square/Square Enix. - wongjp

Moodorama

Is Ms. Kanno also involved with 'Moodorama' ?

Link for Ashurajo

This link does not go to the movie site, rather some sort of health page. Suggest removal? KB

Plagiarism

Criticism of Yoko Kanno for plagiarizing other composers'/songwriters' works has been rather wide-spread for a while now. The article should perhaps grow a subsection that deals with this topic. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.61.133.21 (talk • contribs)

Can you attribute such criticism to a reliable source? If so, it can be mentioned in the article. (Please read the link on attribution if you're unsure about what qualifies.) rspeer / ɹəədsɹ 00:40, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Unfortunately not. There's plenty of obvious evidence around however, (for instance see http://www.hellgateguru.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3128 for a list of titles and examples). I encourage everyone to go hunting for attributable sources (japanese publications are probably the most promising places to look). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.61.139.139 (talk) 13:34, 22 February 2007 (UTC).
Well... I do not think Wikipedia takes message board threads as sources. I my self a few hours ago tried looking for a source in English online, but I could not find one and this is the first time I have ever heard of her plagiarising. Alus 17:22, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
I just looked at that message board thread. Many of the claims are clearly spurious -- "Call Me Call Me", for example, is definitely not "Bittersweet Symphony" -- and others are referring to classical pieces long out of copyright, where the references are most likely intentional. Not that this has any place in the Wikipedia article, anyway. rspeer / ɹəədsɹ 16:31, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
I agree that "Call Me Call Me" doesn't sound like Bittersweet Symphony. It does, though, sound a whole lot like Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls. And if you disregard that Bittersweet Symphony snafu, all the other ones are quite similar. I found out about this issue by hearing her song Cyberbird from Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex - it sounds very, very much like Battersea by Hooverphonic. JeffreyAtW 05:13, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
Huh? No, it's not plagiarized from Iris either. You might as well claim that Bittersweet Symphony plagiarized Iris. The songs I'm familiar with on that list have really tenuous connections -- another example is that "PAPA Plastic" is not plagiarizing "Come Together", unless the Beatles have a monopoly on the idea of a blues riff -- which makes me conclude that this doesn't amount to anything more than "OMG Yoko Kanno writes soundtracks in the style of popular/alternative music!" rspeer / ɹəədsɹ 08:05, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
All right - ignore the ones written in the first post. But do listen to the 30-second samples listed in the following posts - especially Battersea/Cyberbird on the second page. I don't think this is enough to cry plagiarism - but the article might benefit from the mention that a vast amount of Kanno's work is intentionally derivative. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by JeffreyAtW (talk • contribs) 08:17, 28 February 2007 (UTC).

Languages?

Is there any info on her speaking English or other languages? L337p4wn 03:41, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Categories

Yoko Kanno in included in Category:Cardcaptor Sakura, Category:Cowboy Bebop, Category:Ghost in the Shell, Category:RahXephon, Category:The Vision of Escaflowne ; could also be in Category:Wolf's Rain.

It could be better to have a category like Category:Anime whom music was composed by Yoko Kanno (with a better name if possible), or even Category:Works of Yoko Kanno, what do you think ? Jean-FrédéricFr 15:54, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

I second it. L337p4wn 02:56, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

Creation

Anyone have any information about the project she worked on? [1] Jeffrywith1e 05:57, 26 August 2007 (UTC)