Yoko Kanno – Yin no Piano
17th September, 2007 by Chewbacca
Yoko Kanno, as I’m sure you can now gather from numerous previous featurings – is a firm favourite of mine: coupled with the ability to produce great music in such a variety of different styles, she’s also linked with a lot of great projects. Today’s track comes from the Darker than Black – a science-fiction anime show about paranormal beings with special powers (and its far more complicated than that) – but there is a gentler side to the show to prove its not all scifi, and today’s track, I hope, will exemplify this quality. It is a piano piece played by “Yin” (literally meaning Silver, for her silver hair) who is supposedly an “emotionless doll” – one of the themes explored by the show. The music is touching and of real quality – as both the show and the soundtrack are. Here is “Yin no Piano”:
- Darker than Black article on Wikipedia
- The Yoko Kanno Project – a fan-run website about the composer
- Buy the album on Yes-Asia
lovely. this piece quickly got stuck into my head while watching that particular episode.indeed a perfect choice to describe yin.
hey. i was wondering if you know where i can get a piano piece of this song?
thanks much!
Hi, you might find this useful:
http://josh.agarrado.net/music/anime/get.php?file=darker-than-black-yin-no-piano.pdf
wow. i love this song so much xDDD it kinda reminds me of Beethoven’s Moonlight Piano music….
THANKS so much for the sheet music link!
Are you serious? Does no one in the world hear Debussy’s Claire de Lune all over this? I thought it was until I finally got the soundtrack to compare them. Debussy wins, but nice imitation by Kanno!
Dude your totally right, it is pretty much like Claire de Lune, but like a different feeling, I reckon both songs are aimed at different meanings too, if you know what i mean.
Kanno did very well though, i dont play piano but i want to learn it so badly!
I love Darker than Black too! The Whole soundtrack is amazing!
Its the same atmosphere, but totally different. I’d never think of Claite d Lune while listening to Yin no Piano
i LOVE this song it really has depth to it and should be a classic in life. I also think that yin has such a tramatic past and this song lets out all those feelings of hers. PLEASE LISTEN TO THIS SONG!!!!!!!!!!! I listen to it at school and at home…..wish i could download it on my IPod