Mr Skunk's fantastical music thread!

[astro_mcfly]

I very much liked that song! Thanks!

[mr skunk]

No prob! Another one will be up tomorrow.

[astro_mcfly]

Great! I look forward to that!

[Latu]

I'll listen to it later.

[mr skunk]

Title: "Cloe"
Artist: Gabriela Robin
Composer: Yoko Kanno
Album: Arjuna into the Another World

Before I begin, I would like to point out that Yoko Kanno and Gabriela Robin are the same person. Kanno just uses this alias so people won't know it's her singing, but we know better, right?

You will see a lot of Kanno's work up here, some songs she sings, others she just composes. Her songs have an air to them that can rarely be explained, and if you've never heard one of her songs, I urge you to now. "Cloe" is, and always will be, my favorite song composed by Kanno. The entire cd, in fact, is something to be admired. Music from Arjuna tends to lean on the cult side, with big choruses and drums, chanting voices in all. Kanno is amazing at capturing this powerful presence in her music, a greater being. While the entire cd is powerful in that sense, "Cloe" goes for a different approach.

"Cloe" is soft and sounds.... lost. Kanno's voice has always been strange, and it compliments the music nicely, sounding almost like a small child. A change in notes during the song creates a disturbing quality, almost music box-ish, but a little more frightening. Like most of the songs Kanno/Robin sings, the lyrics are nothing but gibberish. Kanno will do that often, for as she quotes, "I tend to use languages that portray the feelings I'm trying to express. If a certain language doesn't do that for me, I try another one, and if that still doesn't work, I make up my own." Wise words indeed. It certainly worked wonders for this song. I can't recommend it enough.

Download "Cloe" http://rapidshare.de/files/24463086/03_Cl_e.m4a.html

[mr skunk]

The lyrics to "Cloe," incase anyone wanted them...

http://www.geocities.com/gabriella_robin/lyrics.html#Cloe

[LynnyM]

FIRST POST EVER

This is a genius idea. I shall mention again that non-original soundtracks to Tezuka works sounds like a super idea.

I mean, really.

[Latu]

Welcome to the the Astroboy Online Forums!

[mr skunk]

I really wish more people would listen to the songs.... or at least comment on them. It's hard work to upload the songs, the cd covers, and write detailed explanations to help people out. I would love to get some feedback.

[LynnyM]

Thanks, Latu. I hope to learn a lot here.

Mr Skunk, about these two songs (even though this is a little redundant, as we've already disscussed these somewhat on the outside):


"Cloe" Was, I think, the first song I heard by Kanno. That and Diving, anyway. What I like about it, other than the beautiful craftmanship, is how versitile is is.

This song used to remind me of an original character. Then, as my tastes changed, so did my meaning for the song. I began to see Tezuka characters (big surprise there!) like Tima from the Metropolis movie, and recently...though I don't like to talk about it much...Pinoco from Black Jack. Innocent children exploring life's small joys kinda deal.

What does this mean? It's a good song that's good at everything it does. Even cooking. It can cook.

"Pale People" I just heard today, for the first time, through you, and I must say it is quite beautiful. And who knows? I'll probably find many more uses for it (I'm trying very hard not to use it for a depressing Pinoco fic in which she smokes cigarettes, mops the floor, and ponders life outside her iodine-soaked, ocean-edge home.)


I love this lady's voice. Very beautiful.


Huzzah!