Track Listing

1. Blue - Gabriela Robin
2. Words That We Couldn't Say
3. Autumn in Ganymede
4. Mushroom Hunting
5. Go Go Cactus Man
6. Chicken Bone
7. Real Man
8. N.Y. Rush
9. Adieu
10. Call Me Call Me - Steve Conte
11. Ave Maria - Anthony Inglis
12. Stella by Moor
13. Flying Teapot - Emily Bindiger
14. Wo Qui Non Coin
15. Road to the West - Steve Conte
16. Farewell Blues
17. See You Space Cowboy - Emily Bindiger

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #25495 in Music
• Released on: 2009-02-03
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Soundtrack, Import
• Original language: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Tagalog

Customer Reviews

Well let me see...
Ok, you know who Yoko Kanno is right? Wait...you don't? Ok, three things:

First Thing: I can't believe you don't know who Yoko Kanno is.

Second thing: I can't believe you don't know what Cowboy Beebop is.

Third thing: well...there isn't a third thing. But there should be.

Yoko Kanno is one of the most talented composers to come out of the anime industry since...since...well since forever! Working on scores for series such as The Vision Of Escaflowne and the newer series Raxephon, and with such artists as Maaya Sakamoto, Yoko Kanno has changed the way music is thought of as part of a series.

This particular series, Cowboy Beebop has some of her most featured works in it, from the emotional ballads Blue and Green Bird to the humourus song Chicken Bone. Kanno tracks her music through styles from all over the world, from country to jazz, pop to choiral pieces Yoko can mix anything with anything, and it will all be woven together with Yoko's magical touch that she puts into all her pieces.

Cowboy Beebop, the story of bounty hunters and space cowboys, has one of the most beautiful scores of music provided by Kanno. This particular record 'Blue' holds the final ending theme which features the same title as the album. 'Blue' is an emotional ballad that haunts you as the final scenes play and the series is concluded, the small choir accompanying the song goes perfectly and gives a chilling remembrance to the Green Birds scene, which would haunt even the toughest space cowboy.

The CD also contains 'Call Me Call Me' similar in effect to 'Blue' but has a more uplifting feel to it towards the end. The singer lends his spectacular vocals that match the power of 'Blue' and 'Want It All Back' to put feeling of searching throughout this song and finally reach a climax that Kanno beautifully composed.

'Wo Qui Non Coin' is a jazzy and sweet little tune from Kanno performed by the japanese voice actor for Ed. It's sassy and holds the cute factor of the CD, it's a perfect song for Ed's voice actress and she suits it perfectly with vocals that match the music.

The other tracks on this CD range from humourus to sweet to emotionally haunting, Yoko Kanno is the best in the business. If you ever want a soundtrack for a series or a film look to this woman as her music matched with 'The Seatbelts' music and vocals can match with the best of them. This CD offers a genre hoppers dream as it goes from style to style in Yoko's talent to dabble and produce fantastic tracks from anything she feels is nessercary.

Sorry I scolded you for not knowing who she was or knowing Cowboy Beebop, even if you don't know who they are this CD is enjoyable and deserves credit for being a very creative and beautiful CD.

BUY IT NOW!

A beautiful mix of styles
Cowboy Bebop is perhaps the ultimate anime series, a combination of different styles of story, characters, settings and technology from both East and West. The music, by Yoko Kanno, is equally ground-breaking with the Japanese Singer/Songwriter pulling off styles from Jazz to Pop, to Opera and so on. Blue features some lovely songs, including the title track which is a haunting emotional song. However, the album mixes with tone as well as styles and the humourous Chicken Bone and Mushroom Hunting get your feet tapping. The soulful Road To The West, a synth pad and saxaphone instrumental is one of the more memorable instrumental tracks, as is N.Y Rush, a re-recording of Rush from the first CD.

If you like music, dip into your pocket, you won't be disappointed.

Bad service- no biscuits
This is, without a doubt, an excellent album. The music is fun, origonal and at times, very moving. However, actually getting hold of a copy is beyond a joke. I ordered last year a copy of this album and although amazon claimed that it could be delivered in 2-4 weeks, it didn't arrive. I then received an e-mail stating that my order had been delayed. 4 More weeks passed and I then received a second e-mail stating that my order had been delayed yet again. After another month of waiting, amazon then confirmed that my order could not be fulfilled.
Moral of the story, I highly recommend buying this album, but if you order it through amazon, you might be in for a long and possibly fruitless wait, which is incredibly frustrating and a huge waste of time.