Yoko Kanno - Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
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Free Music Review: Worth buying for the song "Inner Universe" alone
Hit: 5 Stars
Having being a fan of the TV series, I found my way into the music from Ghost in the Shell. Both the animation and the music are first class.
The music is a very agreeable mix of styles - world, blues, techno and something that can't be easily defined.
"Inner Universe" is a piece of music I listen to over and over again. It impressed me a lot and I am sometimes very hard to impress! ;-)) (check out my other reviews)
The Japanese do marvellous things with music and even when they tackle familiar musical styles, there is always a very beguiling "sense of otherness" in the results. Always great to hear Western musical styles absorbed and then presented in a new, fresh and slightly "alien" manner.
Full marks to Ms Yoko Yanno - composer and pianist. I will be searching for and enjoying more of this lady's music in the future.
Free Music Review: Music Good Enough For A Great Series
Hit: 4 Stars
The music in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex is superb and the soundtrack doesn't fail to capture that. I love the cd and am very happy that I ordered it. It arrived earlier than planned and has not left my cd player since.Free Music Review: Stand Alone Complex Rocks!
Hit: 5 Stars
If you haven't seen SAC then you're missing some of the best anime to come out of Japan since GTS.The soundtrack has most of the riffs and beats from the TV series as well as the opening / closing themes. Yoko Kanno's work is some of the best I've heard from an anime show since her work on Cowboy Bebop, and that was a blast.
If you have seen the show, get the soundtrack!
Free Music Review: more excellence from Yoko Kanno
Hit: 4 Stars
Yoko Kanno is an amazingly versatile composer, and although she sometimes borrows rather obviously from previously existing material, she seldom duplicates herself. Hence, this disc is not like the blues-jazz-themed Cowboy Bebop soundtrack, the latin-tinged "Wolf's Rain" score, or her more classical album "Songs to Fly." I suppose it most resembles the Sharon Apple pop numbers from "Macross Plus," but even that's a bit of a leap. This album is much more built on heavy metal guitars, dominating synthesizers and much more overstated, grandiose arrangements, the sort that sometimes fall on their face but in this case work to splendidly dramatic effect. The content is engaging, diverse, and often in-your-face. Unfortunately, one trait that is held over from "Wolf's Rain" is that some of the English vocal tracks feature some embarrassingly overdramatic lyrics ("Beauty is Within Us" is the most egregiously unlistenable example) and leave me pining for the quiet beauty of "Is It Real?" from the Bebop movie score. But with 19 tracks at your disposal, one or two duds won't set you back. Another mild gripe is that "Where Does This Ocean Go?" is a flagrant ripoff of Bjork's "Hyperballad," but fortunately it might be better than the original song so all is forgiven. Bottom line, this is another solid and original release that should only fuel the popularity of anime soundtrack music around the world.
P.S. I've never seen a second of Stand Alone Complex and this music is great anyway, so if you're not familiar with the show, don't let that hold you back.
Free Music Review: Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Hit: 5 Stars
well i like it sounds cool and go,s with the moive too