Artist: Yoko Kanno
Album: Collection - 8 Albums
Released: 1996-2004
Genre: Electronic, Orchestral, New Age, Modern Classical, Jazz, Progressive Rock
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Description:
Yoko Kanno, born March 19, 1964 in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, is a composer and performer of musical scores for Japanese film and television. She is best known for her work on the soundtracks for many seminal anime films and TV series, as well as a growing number of live-action movies. In addition to soundtracks Kanno occasionally composes music for JPop artists as well, the most notable being Maaya Sakamoto and Kyoko Koizumi. She is also a musician, most notably a skilled keyboardist, and is the primary composer and frontress for the band The Seatbelts, which performs many of Kanno's compositions on the various original soundtracks for which she is responsible.

 

Some of her most famous soundtrack themes include "Voices" (Macross Plus), "Tank!" (Cowboy Bebop), "Yakusoku wa Iranai" (Escaflowne), "Gravity" (Wolf's Rain), "Inner Universe" (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex) and Stand Alone Complex O.S.T . She was the lead member of a band called The Seatbelts, which regrouped in the year of 2004 to compose the soundtrack of the Cowboy Bebop game, scheduled for a 2006 US release. It was also rumored that Yoko Kanno will be making the opening theme for the live-action series Kamen Rider Kabuto, with the song being titled "FIRE", but this rumor has been proven false, as the Kabuto opening is "NEXT LEVEL" by YU-KI; however, this rumor is not dead as indicated by past shows. Many of the Rider shows change their openings midway through the series, and since the series is almost midway through its season, there is a possibility that the show will change its opening.

 

She has composed for many Koei games released during the late 1980s to early 1990s and for a Dreamcast game. Due to her close involvement in the Cowboy Bebop anime, the game released by Bandai also features her work. Apart from anime and games, Kanno also composes for live-action films and CMs (television advertisements or commercials) for all sorts of brands. Grand Funk Inc. is her recording studio of choice in producing for these two media. Contributions to films started in the 90s but only since 2002 has there been a trend towards the medium. Most of the latter were shown in international film festivals. She is married to fellow composer Hajime Mizoguchi, with whom she collaborated on the soundtracks for Please Save My Earth and Escaflowne. She has attended Otakon and Anime Expo in 1999, as well as Anime Expo New York in 2002. On September 13, 2005, GameSpot reported Kanno has been hired by Gravity Corp. to do the scoring for their in-development MMORPG, Ragnarok Online 2.

 

On some of Kanno's albums, a singer-songwriter named "Gabriela Robin" is credited, and is often featured singing gibberish-like lyrics on a number of songs. There is wide speculation and belief that Robin is actually Kanno herself under a different name. Although Kanno has maintained that Robin is a different person than her, the booklet of the Macross Plus-soundtrack names Gabriela Robin as the composer of Santi-U, while Kanno claims this honor in a Newtype interview for herself.

 

Albums:
01. Arjuna --into the another world-- (2001)
02. Escaflowne Movie OST (2000)
03. The Vision of Escaflowne -Lovers Only- (1997)
04. The Vision of Escaflowne OST 1 -Over The Sky- (1996)
05. The Vision of Escaflowne OST 2 (1996)
06. The Vision of Escaflowne OST 3 (1996)
07. Wolf's Rain Original Soundtrack 1 (2003)
08. Wolf's Rain Original Soundtrack 2 (2004)

Artist: Jean Michel Jarre
Album: Hong Kong
Released: 1994
Genre: Electronic
Format: eac-ape-cue-log

 

Description:
Celebrated as the European electronic music community's premier ambassador, composer Jean-Michel Jarre elevated the synthesizer to new peaks of popularity during the 1970s, in the process emerging as an international superstar renowned for his dazzling concert spectacles. The son of the famed film composer Maurice Jarre, he was born August 24, 1948, in Lyon, France, and began studying piano at the age of five. Abandoning classical music as a youth, Jarre became enamored of jazz before forming a rock band called Mystere IV; in 1968, he became a pupil of the musique concrete pioneer Pierre Schaeffer, joining Groupe de Recherches Musicales. His early experiments in electro-acoustic music yielded the 1971 single "La Cage"; the full-length Deserted Palace followed a year later.

 

Jarre's early works were largely unsuccessful, and gave little indication of the work to follow. As he struggled to find his own voice, he wrote for a variety of singers, including Françoise Hardy, and also composed for films. Seeking to push electronic music away from its minimalist foundations as well as the formal abstractions of its most experimental practitioners, he slowly developed the orchestrated melodicism of his 1977 breakthrough effort, Oxygene, an enormous commercial hit that reached the number two spot on the U.K. pop charts. The follow-up, 1978's Equinoxe, was also a smash, and a year later Jarre held the first in a series of massive open-air concerts at the Place de la Concorde in Paris, the estimated one million spectators on hand earning him a place in The Guinness Book of World Records.

 

Only in the wake of 1981's Les Chants Magnétiques (Magnetic Fields) did Jarre mount a proper tour, traveling to China with a staggering amount of stage equipment in tow; the five performances, performed backed by some 35 traditional instrumentalists, later generated the LP Concerts in China. Released in 1983, Music for Supermarkets instantly became one of the most collectible albums in history — recorded for an art exhibit, only one copy was ever pressed, selling at a charity auction for close to $10,000. The master was then incinerated, guaranteeing the record's rarity. Jarre's next proper release was 1984's Zoolook, which failed to connect with audiences with the same success as its predecessors.

 

A two-year hiatus followed before he resurfaced on April 5, 1986, with an extravagant live performance in Houston celebrating NASA's silver anniversary; in addition to the over one million in attendance, it was also broadcast on global television. Rendez-Vous appeared a few weeks later, and after another highly visual live date in Lyon, France, Jarre assembled the best material from the two events as the 1987 concert LP Cities in Concert: Houston/Lyon. Revolutions, featuring the legendary Shadows guitarist Hank B. Marvin, followed in 1988, and a year later a third concert LP, dubbed simply Jarre Live, hit stores. After 1990's En Attendant Cousteau (Waiting for Cousteau), Jarre mounted his biggest live experience yet, with an attendance of over two and a half million fans converging on Paris to see him perform in honor of Bastille Day.

 

The decade to follow proved surprisingly quiet, however, and apart from the occasional live appearance Jarre was largely removed from the limelight; finally, in 1997 he issued Oxygene 7-13, updating his concepts for a new musical era.

 

Tracklist:
01. Countdown
02. Chronologie 2
03. Chronologie 3
04. How old are you?
05. Equinoxe 4
06. Souvernir of China
07. Qu'est-ce-que l'amour?
08. Chronologie 6
09. Chronologie 8
10. Where are you going?
11. Oxygene 4
12. Fishing Junks at Sunset
13. Sale of the Century
14. Digi Sequencer
15. Magnetic Fields 2
16. Band in the Rain (unplugged version)
17. Rendez-Vous 4
18. Chronologie 4

Artist: Jean Michel Jarre
Album: Images
Released: 1991
Genre: Electronic
Format: eac-wavpack-cue-log

 

Description:
Putting together Jarre's best tracks over 12 albums, Images is a superb collection of his greatest electronic feats and atmospheric pieces, displaying his supreme instrumental prowess. With 20 tracks spanning the same number of years, this compilation serves as an enjoyable guide through electronic transition. Beginning with the keyboard gurgling of "Oxygene" and "Equinoxe," Jarre delves into three different eras; the '70s, '80s and '90s, showcasing how electronics, instrumentation, and Jarre himself has changed by way of modernization. Each of the tracks on this compilation reflect a certain mood and concept sketched splendidly from numerous synthesizers, sequencers, and computerized instruments. For example, "Moon Machine" captivates the chill of deep space with its icy synth layering, while "Orient Express" uses electric string imitations to transform the listener into the mystique of the Far East. Surprisingly, the tracks do not lose any resilience by being taken out of their conceptual domain and hold their own wonderfully as contributing pieces to the set. The most astounding factor to the album is the beautiful sound of this disc, digitally remastered in 24-bit technology, making every cut of synthesizer sound even sharper. Jarre helped change the feel and the image of new age music, which is firmly proven on this amazing compilation.

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