What has Yoko Kanno been up to?

[isamu]

Haven't been keeping up with YK news lately so just wondering what she's been up to? Has she done any soundtracks lately? If so are they any good? I still insist that Macross Plus is by far her best work. Still holds up to this day and my God, the instrumental Voices is still simply breathtaking!!!

[Tochiro]

-Aquarion Evol

-Kids on the Slope

-Collaboration with SMAP

-A lot of tv CM music

[isamu]

Thanks for the reply. The first three that you listed....are those TV shows, anime, or what?

[Tochiro]

First two are anime. Kids on the Slope is mostly covers or jazz classics. Its been licensed by Funimation last I checked.

[EXO]

One of our members, Mike6, has a fan site dedicated solely to Yoko Kanno.

http://gabrielarobin.com/

[isamu]

Thanks

[Marzan]

I came across this really good interview with Yoko Kanno, where she among other things she discusses some of her creative process when making the music for Macross Plus and Frontier. If do apologize if someone else has posted it before.

http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2014/11/yoko-kanno-interview

[Renato]

Don't forget last year's two Shinichiro Watanabe animes -- Zankyou no Terror (Terror in Resonance), which she scored, as well as Space Dandy, which she composed the ending theme for, featuring Etsuko Yakushimaru on vocals.

The last thing she has done AFAIK is the opening for Aquarion Logos, sung by May'n, which is airing now.

[Tochiro]

May J and Yoko Kanno on tv tonight covering Kanno's 3/11 tsunami tribute song 'Hana wa saku,'