2008-03-12

wintergr3y: (storm)
2008-03-12 01:19 pm

Aeria Gloris: Yoko Kanno is a goddess

I finally picked up the DVD box sets of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex and GitS SAC: 2nd Gig. Good stuff. I was immediately struck by the theme song for SAC.

Then I saw the end credits, and dude! it's by Yoko Kanno! A Japanese woman composing a song with Russian, English, and Latin lyrics, and it's totally, ethereally beautiful. You can here it here.

In case you're not familiar with Yoko Kanno, she's the genius composer behind a ton of really amazing music, including my personal favorite: Tank, the theme to Cowboy Bebop.

(Thanks to [profile] unseelie23 for the link to the live Tank performance.)