I am a huge Yoko Kanno fan. I think she’s absolutely fantastic.
So I was delighted to find this detailed interview with her in Forbes by Ollie Barber.
It goes into more depth about her background and specific projects (Macross Plus, Cowboy Bebop) than I’ve read before. Enjoy!
What a weird photo of her out in the field. Looks like a stalker POV.
She was one of the few female composers that I knew of at the time Shirley Walker and not sure if there were other female composers at that time, but Cowboy Bebop drew me back into Anime at the time it was so different for Anime, music so many different styles of music she did in anything she composed for.