Post by Dave WatsonPost by Hand-of-Omegahttp://youtu.be/eOy3AuB5PtI
My roommate tuned me in to this...ironically, the Harry Connick, Jr.
song he always maintained she basically stole isn't on here, but there
are three links worth of similar songs, including the "smoking gun",
Mushroom Samba.
What do you think? Coincidence, Homage, or Plagiarism? Does it change
the way you feel about her work?
"Bad artists copy. Great artists steal."--Pablo Picasso.
Words of a psychotic illustrator.
Yoko Kanno has a talent for paraphrasing the orchestral style of composers.
She is not copying. It is a standard technique used for composition
instruction in college music schools- "writing in the style of". She goes
beyond this in synthesis. She is good at it and prolific.
Mushroom Samba might be a bit close. I'm not a jazz/popular music expert.
"Exit" from Turn-A-Gundam combines Richard Strauss and Copland with only a
few notes that could have been copied. Brilliant.
That's ten year old stuff. Her best recent work is "The Target" from
Macross Frontier which strikes me as John Williams/Sibelius/Rimsky-
Korsakov, though a little bombastic - it's an action sequence.