It's a poorly kept secret that Gabriella Robin is Yoko Kanno's pseudonym/alter ego. She used it whenever she sang on a project for over a decade.

She is truly a genius. Yoko Kanno is a musical God

Dude the hell??? I‘ve started listening to jazz due to the cowboy bebop a few saxophones, basses and years later I discovered rudy van gelder recordings. Now you are telling me Van Gelder recorded the Seatbelts?? This absolutely blew my mind and goes to show how important and impactful every single cog in music production can be from composing, to the musicians themselves to the instruments and naturally the engineers/producers.

She is so inhumanly talented that she inspired me to learn jazz composition

Yoko Kanno + Shinichiro Watanabe = Genius bomb ;) Also there is a little ommision to the Dreamcast game Napple Tale which also has Yoko Kanno and Maaya Sakamoto contribution. And I think Maaya Sakamoto and Yoko Kanno collaborations started way back since they did The Legend of Escaflowne.

As soon as Wolf's Rain was brought up I had to hold back heavy sobs. What an amazing woman, she's worked on so much!

My first exposure to her was Vision of Escaflowne. Around episode 2 I realized the music was elevating the show beyond what it probably deserved. When I watched Cowboy Bebop that same year and learned it was the same composer, I was stunned. Unbelievably talented!

One thing that can't be stressed enough is her talent for musical arrangement. All the jazz, rock, pop, ethnic music of all styles was arranged by her and also all the symphonic music was orchestred by her as well. There is no music style created that she can't compose and arrange/orchestrate. It is truly magnificent. Sometimes is truly hard to believe that all the composition and arrangement is actually done by just one person. And she also writes lyrics and sings as Gabriela Robin. There is nothing she can't do.

Stand Alone Complex quite possibly have my favourite soundtrack out of all tv series, movies or games I've seen/played.

This mini-documentary is beautiful - but not gonna lie, would have loved for you to focus more on her work for Escaflowne. It shows how she can handle so many different kinds of genres - especially something that sounds to the grand and cinematic level of John Williams and James Hornor.

escaflowne OST is amazing

Yoko Kanno is probably one of the biggest reasons I got into making music myself, and I never even knew it. Her work on Ghost in the Shell was my first experience with electronic music, I believe, and it made a very strong and lasting impression. Not only have most of the anime she's worked on (Cowboy bebop, GiTS SAC, Terror in Resonance) been some of my favorites of all time, but they've made a very strong and lasting impression with their soundtracks. She's just incredible, and I'm very thankful to have experienced the stuff she has worked on. Truly an underappreciated genius.

Yoko Kanno was involved in Oban Star Racers Macross Plus Cowboy Bebop Rahxephon A majority of shows I love

if i ever get the chance to meet this woman or watanabe i might legit break down and cry lol

Please do one of YUKI KAJIURA. She is such an amazing composer. One of the best and unique composers. Please?? ♥

Kids on the slope is easily one of the most impactful Kanno OSTs for me artistically and personally. It was the first time everything about jazz that was so exciting to me was audibly represented in a way I could conceptualize. It's contemplative, energetic, cathartic... I was absolutely floored

The old era of anime was something else entirely. just feels so tangible.

She released a solo record in 1998 called "Songs to Fly." I can't recommend it enough.

Her music is still ahead of our time. Just amazing GITS and Bebop and Escaflowne sound tracks are so good.

Yoko Kanno + Bjork. We Can only imagine What they might have Created.

Kids in the slope is very very underrated..i hope many people would experience the show...plus the music is soooo good thank U yoko

I find it interesting that Please Save My Earth and her work with Akino Arai hasn't been mentioned in The Red Bull Music Academy interview or this video.

Loved her works, my favourite came from Zankyou no Terror tho. Yoko Kanno + Arnor Dan = 💜

Thanks for doing this! When Macross Plus first came out here, I was mesmerized by her genius. Escaflowne completely blew me away all over again. And her collaborations with Maaya Sakamoto, Steve Conte, Mai Yamane, etc, introduced me to a host of other wonderful musicians. As far as I'm concerned, Kanno's orchestral work is second to none (including Williams, Zimmer, etc), and she crosses genre like nobody's business.

Thank you for existing Yoko Kanno. My life is better for it

Wow!!! This is the best video essay I have seen on youtube. Like ever. Such a smooth audio and video editing. I can feel the love

Discovered Kanno's amazing music through Wolf's Rain and ever since I've been searching every bit of her music on the internet! Thank you for this great video, keep up the good work!

I've tried to watch every anime that involves the work of Yoko Kanno! And i think that her choice of Anime type and people to work with is incredibly awesome, cause all those anime are deep in meaning and speechless sometimes.

Macross Plus is the legend. Yoko Kanno is genius, absolutely.

I never new it. But all my favourite anime share this one thing. All music was composed by Yoko Kanno.

Re SAC 2nd GiG - The chamber classical parts are sufficient to build a 'Dejima Quartet' in the style of Toru Takemitsu. There's also - magnificently- sufficient material for a 'Dejima Symphony' of four movements. Genius of the best sort ... Happy that of my top 4 are there - GiTS, Cowboy Bebop (I live in it - Auckland, that is), Macross Plus, and Macross Frontier.

Macross Plus is my absolute favorite score of hers. I was blown away first time I watched the OVA.

Fish-silent cruise is one of my favorites from her. From the stand alone complex ost, another great one is Crystallize from the Zankyou no terror ost. She truly is a genius.

Amazing! I've been waiting for someone to articulate the great story of Yoko Kanno justly. This is the closest I've seen hitting many key aspects of this great composer. To me, What always stood out for me is how she's unapologetic in utilizing the human voice in a language understood and sometimes made up. All in the pursuit of channeling a feeling that was felt by the listeners, as intended. The strongest point that got me to explore her music more was the unparalleled amount of fusion, and perhaps parody (?) for the lack of a better word. She would use any genre and any influence blatantly if it serves her goal. Which made experiencing her compositions such a luxury that knows no boredom.

Spotter is my favorite Yoko Kanno track. I was looking for it for a good ten years before I finally found it.

What a great look at. I have loved her music since macross plus. I have most of her works. Such great music she has compsed over the years. Thanks you for doing such a great video.

Whilst Yoko is a musical genius, props to Marc for this short and very professionally done documentary. Just Wow. I am sure her career and talent provides an endless amount of content to comment on, remember, discuss, and envy. Well done.

The osts of macross frontier are so good and yet hidden gem songs like Oban Star Racer is so underrated as the opening and ending sequence TT ^ TT

Early in her life, Yoko never heard the drums and once she seen the drums played by her friend while in school - she thought of him as a god! Thats why she decided to stick with music. I'm believed she told this story while she worked for newtype mag.

This is such good insight to one of my all time favorite musicians. Yoko Kanno has always been a favorite since I first watched Ghost in the Shell long before I could really comprehend it's deeper philosophies. I have always wanted to learn more, but never got there. Thank you so much for this deep dive into one of our great human treasures of the millennium.

Just getting to know this immensely talented and prolific musical maestro. Yoko is an inspiration and I am glad about how her quite strict initial background in Classical music gave her the tools to fully explore and break down all the musical styles she was eventually exposed to in her musical journey. Her quite unique ability to blend styles and genres is just amazing. It's basically an expression of her own personality - calm and composed outside, but in continual creative and philosophical flux inside. I wish her a long life and many more awesome compositions to share with the world.

I'd kill for an interview that's done by a musician/composer focusing on music theory and composing, what's her approach to music as she'd answer for another musician etc... She's a giant and I'd want to learn everything I can from her to be better as a composer.

I really enjoyed this. Thank you so much for making it.

Thank you for this video, it was awesome.

I've discovered her in Earth Girl Arjuna and listened to the soundtrack almost non-stop for years before discovering more from her. I'm now set to watch all animes that she composed for, and I knew most of the ones you cited! All I miss now are the oldest ones (Macross, GitS...) Every new music presentation of one you threw sent shivers down my spines. Thank you for this overview of the greatest composer in the world.

Have you ever heard earth girl arjuna? Impossible to not put it there man…It's her best ost by far. No downer, non stop.

Absolutely love this video and I'm checking out the rest of your videos great work

Excellent work here creating this piece!

Thank you for making this video!

Thank you for this spotlight. A composer we should never forget.

Awesome!!! Thanks for Producing This!!

Loved her take on all the songs she gets “inspiration” from. One might call her the led zeppelin of good music

Thank you for the upload... her music will always be apart of my life

simply the best of all time, no one else amazes me like she does!!!

Amazing video

This video made me subscribe. I still haven’t even finished it. Currently still watching actually. Thank you so much for taking the time to make such quality content.

I just came across this channel and what a beautiful video essay about Yoko Kanno's work.

This was great. I am suprised you dont have more views. Keep up the good work.

I like your videos they are very informative in relation with anime. Until now was absent minded about. What amazes me is the fact you don't have many subscribers. I think you deserve more.

Great video. Would love to see more in-depth videos on various anime creators!

Fantastic.

This video was fantastic. Sorry I found it so late - but it holds up years later so hats off to you. I love Yoko and this video is an amazing tribute to her.

i started bugging out when 11:12 hit and I heard Spotter(GITS sound track obv made by Yoko) start to play. I've been listening to it like all day and i cant stop.

Absolutely wonderful video. I can’t imagine how much time and effort went into it, wish you got more views for such hard work. +1 from me, keep it up!!!

I love the high quality production! You got a new subscriber! Can't wait to check out new content of yours!

She is the greatest, period.There, you don't need to decide anymore.

Great video, I just discovered via youtube sugestions, thank you for the passion and admiration for her.

amazing！

Wow. You did her justice. Subscribed.

Great video

Exceptional editing

Great effort on the video dude. Though it only has 11k views at the moment it is greatly appreciated. Glad I stumbled upon it, she no doubt is the mastermind behind some of my favorite anime soundtracks. The OST Darker Than Black - Total Eclipse is worth a listen to anyone reading this.

FAM, this video is honestly amazing. The level of passion and care that went into this comes out in the extremly high quality of the video. I love how its been edited to feel like it flows seamlessly with the music. From start to finish it felt like you allowed the music to guide the edit in a rhythmic way that let me experience Yoko's diverse body of work^^ Big upps to you bro!

She literally invented chill hop and space jazz. An artist and legend.

Nice job my man!

Good work

Nice work bro

When Gravity started I almost cry...

This was splendid. I would love one on Michiru Oshima. Maybe I could try msking it myself.

mai yamane was on macross plus too!!! god damn that place was like a bebop training ground lol

Got lucky enough to come across Macross Plus VHS in highschool. Connecting dots on why I'm so picky with my anime.

This is absolutely wonderful. You did such a great job and paid such a respect to Yoko Kanno and her work, you made me cry. The only thing I want to add is that when you mention Bebop as a genre, you have to mention Charlie Parker, John Birks (Dizzy) Gillespie, and Charlie Christian. Thelonious Monk is definitely part of the beginning of the movement in the early 40s. Miles Davis actually left Juilliard School in New-York to go and find Charlier Parker in a club to play with him, he's therefore part of the movement also, but his mentor was Bird (Charlie Parker). John Coltrane definitely played Bebop music, but he's not as much of a pioneer of the movement as Charlie, Dizzy, Thelonious Monk, and Charlie Christian. Coltrane would be more associated with the Free jazz movement of the 60s, with the likes of Pharoah Sanders and Ornette Coleman. Anyways, like your video, I could go on and on about jazz for hours. Thank you so much for this video, your narration, the images, and the music from Yoko Kanno that you used, are all in synchronicity with what she is as an artist, a human being.

I was hooked with Kano-san during Macross Plus. I have all of the Escflowne CD's and 2 of the Macross Plus CD's still , and I got the Macross Plus CD's autographed by her as well when I met her at Otakon.

what an underrated channel and video

you did your thing here my friend.

YK only works on animation projects with profiund philosophical themes. If you see her name on a series, It's often show and never tell,

ever since final fantasy I loved Yoko Kanno.

She is amazing & full honesty I'd love to see her work with cafe tacvba

This is an incredible piece, please do more detailed videos on her different eras! She's so incredible!

A piece of heaven on earth.

she is da queen

I would just call her a great composer. Love the range and breadth of her work!

Amazing video! This channel is so underrated.

kanno speaks to my soul ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

Actually, the first time I heard Yoko Kanno's stuff was the Magnetic Rose part of Memories. Course, I didn't know it was her stuff until years later when she became popular, but even then the music stood out.

It’s difficult to squeeze any more into this video, but one of my favorite works by her is “Rhapsody” from Mind Game (2004). She just absolutely demolishes a variation on Liszt’s “Hungarian Rhapsody”, pretty much proving no genre is off limits, no piece too impossible for Kanno.

This is an excellent video that deserves many more views than most popular videos covering music in the anime industry that often misinform viewers for sheer lack of musical competence. Wish it was a bit longer just to flesh Kanno out a little more, but it never falls into the trappings of discussing something out of the realm of your knowledge and gives a nice, accurate, bite-sized history of Kanno and her work.

This was an amazing video. I'd love to see a review of any of the following composers! Hiroyuki Sawano Taku Iwasaki Yuki Kajiura

There are no other artists quite like Yoko Kanno. At 11:50, a lot of the time when you hear from the composer that the character of the story is taken as the inspiration for the soundtracks, it's bs because the music sounds like generic synth pop but in all of her work it's very apparent that it's true. It's most apparent in her Macross work and Ghost in the Shell, you can easily tell who the point of view is in each sound track.

Her music probably saved or at least carried all the anime her music is on