菅野よう子 / Yoko Kanno

Now is your chance to party with Spike, Jet, Faye, Ed, and Ein at this celebration of all things Cowboy Bebop! The orchestra will lay down the tracks and tear up the starways with live scored screening of four full episodes from the Anime, symphonic renditions of Yoko Kannos classics, and more big surprises including a special appearance by Yoko Kanno herself!  The Japanese anime TV series Cowboy Bebop has been hailed as a breakthrough animated television series and championed as "a new genre unto itself." A critical and commercial success, it has been praised as a landmark anime and credited with introducing the genre to a wider audience of Western viewers. A crucial part of its success was Yoko Kanno's music, a wildly imaginative and eclectic score that added context and layers of depth to the action on the screen. Nearly two generations of television fans and music lovers have come of age listening to the composer Yoko Kanno's deceptively funky, wildly eclectic soundtrack for Cowboy Bebop. Utilizing a mash-up of jazz, classical, country, reggae, prog rock, and art pop motifs, Yoko Kannos sound meshed perfectly with the masterful storytelling of Director Shinichi Watanabe. See the music and vision brought to life like never before. Episode 1: Asteroid Blues Episode 5: Ballad of Fallen Angels Episode 25: The Real Folk Blues (Part 1) Episode 26: The Real Folk Blues (Part 2)