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Cowboy Bebop OST #1:

With music written by Yoko Kanno the soundtrack for Cowboy Bebop has become well known
throughout the anime fandom community as being superb. Kanno herself is known as one of
the definitive musicians in the anime industry. The original Bebop soundtrack features
memorable songs such as Tank!, the opening theme music for Bebop, as well as The Real
Folk Blues, the closing theme music for the series.

The Seatbelts - Who Are They?

Keyboards-Yoko Kanno
Voices- Tim Jensen, Mai Yamane, Steve Conte, Gabriela Robin, Hassan Bohmide,
Synthesizer Manipulating- Keishi Urata Drums- Yasuo Sano
Bass- Hitoshi Watanabe
Guitar- Tsuneo Imahori
Percussion- Mataro Misawa
Saxophone- Takuo Yamamoto, Osamu Koike, Masato Honda, Shigeo Fuchino
Trumpet- Shiro Sasaki, Tatsuya Shimogami, Masanori Suzuki, Toshio Araki, Yusuke Hayashi,
Kouji Nishimura
Trombone- Satoshi Sano, Gakutaro Miyauchi, Satoshi Kawano, Hideaki Nakaji, Yoshiaki Hashimoto
Flute- Hideo Takakuwa, Kazuhiro Iwasa, Mika Hayashi
Tuba- Kiyoshi Sato

''THE SEATBELTS'' - led by the sound producer Y.K.- are a very hot, COOL, anarchy, peace,
hard, soft, potato-like band. In 2048, immediately, they got famous in The Music Scene.
It is said that the name of them came from their unique style of performance-all members
wear the seatbelts for safety while they are playing. The members of ''THE SEATBELTS'' have
the extraordinarily diverse styles of music, which gives a wide variety to their own sound.
However, personal information about them has been completely concealed. Producer Y.K. likes
to refer to the standard tunes which many ''SPACE-JAZZMEN'' in GANYMEDE use as bases for
improvisation as ''THE TRADITIONAL GLOBAL FORM''. That Y.K. is the leading interpreters of
this form is a fact which Y.K. has proven since she first attained prominence on The Solar
System Music Scene. These recordings of their First Album ''COWBOY BEBOP'' are from what
could be called Seatbelt's ''A bar of sweet-potato paste period'' I don't know what the
name of this period really means. ''Tank!'', the first tune in this Album, was ranked #1
in ''The Solar System Music Hit Chart'' in 2056. This tune really established Y.K. as a
great sound producer as well.

During the late Forties and early Fifties, ''THE SEATBELTS'' traveled around the planets for
concerts named ''Digging my POTATO tour''. In an interview Y.K. said: ''We really enjoyed
playing in large audience. We could stay safe during our play, because we all wore SEATBELTS,
as you know. Then we got relaxed and it was fun.'' She continued with laughter, ''there was
only one thing we couldn't enjoy on this tour... that's sea-rats meat in GANYMEDE.'' She is
planning to release a new album named ''Vitaminless'', ''COWBOY BEBOP-NO DISK'' in future.