Tanabata is the Japanese star festival happening every year on July 7. For some reason Yoko Kanno chose this date in 2009 to celebrate her anime composer 15th anniversary. All the promotion and the event itself was around the number seven: the date, the ticket price, the start hour... And now let me … Continue Reading ››
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Words or music is the same when expressing something
The CPRA (Center for Performers' Rights Administration) published an interview in October 2011. I actually wrote a very incomplete translation in 2011 and I found it back recently so I thought it was time to complete it! (lol)
That was 6 months after the big earthquake that ravaged Japan's Miyagi prefecture on March 11, … Continue Reading ››
What happened in 2015
Piano Me
Yoko Kanno performed a live piano and singing concert in Baltimore on August 11, 2013.
Since the event is over, I will do a small recap starting with the teasing.
On April 20, 2013, Piano Inc. published a mysterious Youtube video showing a disguised Yoko Kanno playing Tank! and Voices on a … Continue Reading ››
“The LuLuLun Song”
Yoko Kanno wrote「ルルルンの歌」("The LuLuLun Song"), the theme of a campaign for LuLuLun face masks.
The campaign started on June 6, 2013. Short versions of the CM were broadcasted on TV while a full 2:05 version was released on LuLuLun official website and Youtube channel.
The song is labeled by Piano … Continue Reading ››