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Yoko Kanno

Yoko Kanno Trivia and Quotes

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Trivia

  • For her work on Escaflowne, she used a tonal language that many people assumed was Latin. However, in an interview discussing the matter, she revealed that it isn't Latin but an "image of Latin". []
  • Although she uses a variety of languages in her compositions, she confesses that she can't read nor speak them very well. []
  • Ms. Kanno's current team includes Steve Conte, Tim Jensen, Scott Matthew, Ilaria Graziano and Origa. []
  • Ms. Kanno scored the music for Koei's online game Uncharted Waters. []
  • She is credited for composing some of the music for the PC game Nobunaga's Ambition. []
  • In her earlier works, Yoko Kanno teamed with composers Hajime Mizoguchi and Akino Arai when working on the soundtracks for "Please Save My Earth" and "Voices". []
  • Although famous in the West for her Anime compositions, she is
    known in Japan for her TV drama and commercial compositions. Recent TV commercial composition credits include Cocoa-Cola and Master Card International's "Priceless" campaign (song: "25nenme no Bike"). []
  • To relax and relieve stress, Ms. Kanno will go to the zoo instead of listening to music. []
  • Credits for video game music includes Napple Tale: Arsia in Daydream and Macross Plus -Game Edition- for the PlayStation. []
  • Ms. Kanno has appeared in two American Anime conventions: Otakon in 1999 and the New York Anime Expo in 2002. []
  • She was nominated for an Annie for her work in "Wolf's Rain" for "Music in an Animated Television Production" (2004). []
  • Toshihiro Kawamoto, the character designer for the both "Cowboy Bebop" and "Wolf's Rain", said that the character of "Ed" from "Cowboy Bebop" was based on composer Yoko Kanno. []
  • She began composing music in early childhood by writing a song for a boy she liked. Her main musical influences growing up were Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy. []

Quotes

  • (On her approach to creating the music for "Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex")

    Yoko Kanno: I had this image of a formal and rigid "manly" world for the original comic. So I tried to think of ways to destroy that world. []

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