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• Cowboy Bebop is a soundtrack album by The Seatbelts, released in 1998. It features music composed by Yko Kanno and performed by The Seatbelts, showcasing a mix of jazz, big band swing, bebop, blues, Latin inflections and cinematic flair. Tracks like Tank!, Rain, Space Lion, and Bad Dog No Biscuits offer a wide palettesome high-energy, some atmospheric, some mournfulso the album works as both a companion to the anime series and as a vibrant standalone jazz record.

  The arrangements are bold and dramatic, with brass, woodwinds, percussion and rhythm section weaving in and out with a sense of spontaneity. The style shifts from hard bop and Latin-touched swing to softly ambient passages and emotional balladry. Despite being created for a visual medium, the album holds when heard aloneits storytelling is musical, its performances confident and imaginative.

  Reviews

  “The soundtrack is so wonderful, so groundbreaking, and so unique everything from the story and mood, right down to the episode titles is affected by music. Sputnikmusic

  Composer and pianist Yoko Kanno has brought together a sharp band in the Seatbelts and they hit hard with thunderous opener Tank! a charging blast of hard bop but with that Latin touch via the percussion bringing it something extra. Jazz Music Archives

• Artist: The Seatbelts Label: Masterworks, Milan, Sunrise Music Inc. Format: LP Units: 2 Country: Europe Genre: Soundtracks Style: Soundtrack

• A1 Tank!
  A2 Rush
  A3 Spokey Dokey
  A4 Bad Dog No Biscuits
  A5 Cat Blues
  B1 Cosmos
  B2 Space Lion
  B3 Waltz For Zizi
  B4 Piano Black
  B5 Pot City
  C1 Too Good Too Bad
  C2 Car 24
  C3 The Egg And I
  C4 Felt Tip Pen
  C5 Rain
  C6 Digging My Potato
  C7 Memory
  D1 What Planet Is This?
  D2 Diamonds
  D3 Mushroom Hunting
  D4 Einstein Groovin
  D5 Pearls