Song to Fly

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Song to Fly
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Studio album by
Yoko Kanno
ReleasedJanuary 1, 1998
(reprinted May 22, 2002)
Genre J-pop
Label Victor Entertainment
Yoko Kanno chronology
Song to Fly
(1998)		 23-Ji no Ongaku
(2002)

Song to Fly is the debut studio album by Yoko Kanno. It was released January 1, 1998. All music was written by Yoko Kanno.

Yoko Kanno Japanese musician and composer

Yoko Kanno is a Japanese composer, arranger and musician best known for her work on the soundtracks on anime films, television series, live-action films, video games, and advertisements. She was born in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. She has written scores for Cowboy Bebop, Darker than Black, Macross Plus, Turn A Gundam, The Vision of Escaflowne, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Wolf's Rain, Kids on the Slope and Terror in Resonance, and has worked with the directors Yoshiyuki Tomino, Shinichirō Watanabe and Shōji Kawamori. Kanno has also composed music for pop artists Maaya Sakamoto and Kyōko Koizumi. She is also a keyboardist, and is the frontwoman for the Seatbelts, who perform many of Kanno's compositions and soundtracks.

Contents

Track listing

Song to fly Track list
Track nameLengthContributors
1."Atomic Bird"4:52
  • Gabriela Robin – lyricist
  • Cosmic Voices from Bulgaria – performance
2."Reunion"6:18
3."Next Time"6:08
4."ABC Mouse Parade"5:08
5."This EDEN"5:08
  • Gabriela Robin – lyricist
  • Krzysztof Ciupinsky – performer (soprano)
6."Nowhere and Everywhere"4:39
7."The Man in the Desert"4:13
  • Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus – performance
8."Artisan"1:03
9."The Ship"3:34
  • Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus – performance
10."Hallelujah"2:52
  • Warsaw Chorus – performance
11."Lydia"2:56
  • Jadwiga Rappé – performance

Performers

Musical keyboard musical instrument part

A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument. Keyboards typically contain keys for playing the twelve notes of the Western musical scale, with a combination of larger, longer keys and smaller, shorter keys that repeats at the interval of an octave. Depressing a key on the keyboard makes the instrument produce sounds—either by mechanically striking a string or tine, plucking a string (harpsichord), causing air to flow through a pipe organ, striking a bell (carillon), or, on electric and electronic keyboards, completing a circuit. Since the most commonly encountered keyboard instrument is the piano, the keyboard layout is often referred to as the piano keyboard.

Piano musical instrument

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.

Orchestra large instrumental ensemble

An orchestra is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families, including bowed string instruments such as the violin, viola, cello, and double bass, brass instruments such as the horn, trumpet, trombone and tuba, woodwinds such as the flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon, and percussion instruments such as the timpani, bass drum, triangle, snare drum, cymbals, and mallet percussion instruments each grouped in sections. Other instruments such as the piano and celesta may sometimes appear in a fifth keyboard section or may stand alone, as may the concert harp and, for performances of some modern compositions, electronic instruments.

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