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An audition is on-going for a male vocalist of the theme song “Merry Song” for a non-profit cultural project, in which Kanno is the composer and producer. The demo is being streamed, and the instrumental and lyrics of the songs are available in the PIANO INC. website. The final recording is possibly composed of one [...]
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Details: Release Title: Macross Plus Complete Blu-ray Box (Limited Edition) Price: Y17,000 (Y17,850yen Tax in) [approx. US$ 190.58] Format: Blu-ray (Region-free) Release Date: June 21, 2013 Description: Blu-ray release from amazing SF anime “Macross Plus” directed by Shoji Kawamori and characters designed by Masayuki (“Evangelion”)! Music made famous Yoko Kanno composer and songs were performed [...]
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Kanno during the rehearsal Last December 31, 2012, Kanno was once more involved in the Kouhaku Uta Gassen for the performance of “Hana wa Saku”. She also notably wrote the theme song for the previous year. This year, she conducted for “Hana wa Saku”, alongside the piano accompaniment of Nobuyuki Tsujii, and a chorus which [...]
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The new Oronain H Ointment CM, entitled “Mother’s hands also grows old” is composed by Kanno. The music is not yet in Grand Funk, and the credits to the composition is hard to stumble by, but it’s in the staff section of Otsuka’s site for the CM. How touching
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Last December 2012, NHK aired a piano and chorale version of Hana wa Saku where pro-figure skater Shizuka Arakawa danced to the song, along with child figure skaters from Miyagi. The chorale is composed of children from Sendai. It’s really beautiful, not sure about licenses so watch it while it’s up here at YouTube.
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According to Ken’s net, aside from Kanno’s work, Michiru Oshima‘s Horatio was also performed. I am not sure though if Ms. Oshima is an alumnus of Waseda University like Kanno. The writer describes Kanno’s piece “Song of Departure” as something that resembles her drama work, but some portions are different. He couldn’t pinpoint a specific [...]
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UPDATE (December 5, 2012): For those interested, you may purchase this song from iTunes. And here I discover that the singer is Frida Lyngstad of ABBA (!). Here is a set of videos containing the Mellsavon CM, with music by Kanno,  featuring the light, relaxing vocals of Frida. Don’t forget to check it out also [...]
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Kanno will be making the music for the movie “Petal Dance”, directed by Hiroshi Ishikawa. They have previously worked on the movie Tokyo.sora in 2002, Su-ki-da, back in 2005. The movie will air on April 30, 2013. Watch the trailer above, the music sounds ethereal.
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I was actually hoping that I was late by a week, but it seemed that the release may have just been initially buoyed by pre-orders, and it landed 6 spots lower than the debut day. Either way, 19654 units for a compilation is pretty good, in my opinion.
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