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
October 22nd, 2007 at 6:13 pm
lovely. this piece quickly got stuck into my head while watching that particular episode.indeed a perfect choice to describe yin.
February 17th, 2008 at 9:04 am
hey. i was wondering if you know where i can get a piano piece of this song?
thanks much!
February 17th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Hi, you might find this useful:
http://josh.agarrado.net/music/anime/get.php?file=darker-than-black-yin-no-piano.pdf
April 2nd, 2008 at 4:31 am
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!
June 5th, 2008 at 3:45 am
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!