Over 40 Artists Joined in this Awesome ‘Cowboy Bebop’ Music Collaboration for COVID-19 Relief!

May 12, 20 at 8:50pm

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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been a common trend for artists and musicians to sing or play their instruments and record them in their own homes. Now wouldn’t be awesome if a lot if these performers all come together to pay tribute to an awesome anime series….say, Cowboy Bebop?

Now, Cowboy Bebop is seriously considered a classic to millions of anime fans around the world. Recently, Animelab made the most awesome collaboration possible as they did a star-studded tribute to the music of Yoko Kanno and Cowboy Bebop. This is, of course, to benefit COVID-19 relief. Anime has definitely given back to its ever-loyal fans! You can watch this awesome collab here.

Animelab have teamed up with Funimation, Sunrise and Mason Lieberman in order to make this awesome musical performance happen. This collaboration features over forth special guests including Yoko Kanno himself (how awesome!), and some notable artists and performers from both the anime and game industries.

All the proceeds from this track will be donated to the CDC Foundation and Doctors without Border (MSF) in support of the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

In relation to COVID-19, we advise everyone to stay at home, regularly wash your hands, and follow all the necessary health and safety protocols so we can all flatten the curve.

You can listen to this awesome collab track on Bandcamp and Spotify. If you want to get the vinyl, you can check it out here.

Below shows more information about the people behind this awesome collab. Congratulations and we are sure that this is definitely going a long way:

Music Direction/Arrangement - Mason Lieberman (Senior Game Audio Coordinator @ Tencent. Composer/Recording Artist on projects like RWBY, Beyblade Burst, Rising of the Shield Hero, League of Legends, Super Smash Bros, and more)

Featuring:

Special Guest Band: The Seatbelts (The original band led by Yoko Kanno that featured on the OST of Cowboy Bebop)

Band Arrangement and Direction for The Seatbelts: Yoko Kanno

Trumpet: Koji Nishimura

Trumpet: Eric Miyashiro

Trombone: Yoichi Murata

Vocals: A-sha Mai Yamane

Percussion: MATARO

Upright Bass: Hitoshi Watanabe

Drums: Yasuo Sano

Electric Guitar: Tsuneo Imahori

And Special Guest

Vocals: A-sha Mai Yamane

Mix / Additional Guitar: Masahiro Aoki (Legendary former composer at Capcom with credits on Megaman, Street Fighter V, Astral Chain, and more)

Organ: Robbie Benson (Band leader, Super Soul Bros)

Keys: Ed Goldfarb (Series Composer, Pokémon: The Animated Series)

Guitar: David McLean (Guitarist on Beyblade Burst, One Minute Melee, host of Animyze)

Synth/Additional Sound Design: Jason Walsh (Senior composer and sound designer at Hexany Audio with recent credits including Overwatch Contenders, PUBG Mobile, and League of Legends)

Bass: Matthew Hines (Touring bassist with recent gigs including the Jonas Brothers, Ledisi, Summer Walker, Kiana Lede, Bazzi, and more)

Drums: Kevin Brown (Touring drummer with recent gigs including Jason Hawk Harris, the Southern California Brass Consortium, and more)

Saxophone: Zac Zinger (Composer and woodwind player for Street Fighter V, Jump Force, Mobile Suit Gundam: Side stories, and more)

Flute: Kevin Penkin (Series composer, Made in Abyss, Rising of the Shield Hero, more)

Lead Vox 1: Shihori (J-pop singer and song-writer on shows like Fairy Tail, Macross Frontier, Irregular at Magic Highschool, and more.)

Lead Vox 2: Úyanga Bold (Lead vocals on things like Mulan (2020), League of Legends, and multiple projects with Hans Zimmer/Pinar Toprak etc.)

Lead Vox 3: Raj Ramayya (Lead vocals on Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, Wolf’s Rain, Made in Abyss, and more)

Backing Vox 1: Dale North (Composer for Dreamscaper, Wizard of Legend, Sparklight, Nintendo Minute, and more)

Backing Vox 2: Dawn M. Bennett (Voice actress for anime and game series like Dragon Ball Super, Fairy Tail, RWBY, Borderlands 3, and more)

Backing Vox 3: Kaitlyn Fae (Filipino-American singer, actor, writer, director, co-host on the nerd video podcast, PanGeekery)

Rap 1: Substantial (Legendary jazz-hop rapper, Nujabes’ collaborator, with dozens of major placements and projects)

Rap 2: Mega Ran (Critically-acclaimed nerdcore legend)

Rap 3: Red Rapper AKA Zaid Tabani (Rapper with credits on Street Fighter, the EVO worldwide fighting tournament’s main theme, and Rooster Teeth’s Red VS. Blue)

Poem: D.B. Cooper (Voice Actress and director on Hearthstone, Bioshock 2, The Amazing Spiderman 2, Ghostbusters (2016), DC Universe Online, and more)

Spoken word: Beau Billingslea (Voice actor from Cowboy Bebop - Jet Black)

Ending Tag: Steve Blum (Voice actor from Cowboy Bebop - Spike Spiegel)

String Director/String Arranger/Orchestrator/Disco slide king: Lance Treviño (Film composer for titles like Beyblade Burst God, Hanazuki, Chef’s Table, and more!)

String Copyist/Orchestrator/String Mockup: Dallas Crane (Multimedia composer and personal assistant to Austin Wintory)

Strings: Our string section is composed of brilliant artists whose individual credits include Grammy nominations, tours with artists like Eminem, Sting, and Hans Zimmer, and recordings for soundtracks like Steven Universe, God of War, The Lion King (2019), and many, many more.

Violins - Molly Rogers, David Morales Boroff, Felicia Rojas, Jeff Ball

Violas - Joe Chen, Molly Rogers, Isaac Schutz, Jeff Ball

Cellos - Andrew Dunn, David Tangney

Upright Bass - Travis Kindred

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From the artists: We are tremendously grateful to Sunrise, Sunrise Music and Funimation for their generous support in allowing us the opportunity to create this.

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Lyrics by Yuho Iwasato

Composed by Yoko Kanno

Arranged by Mason Lieberman

About Cowboy Bebop

In the year 2071, humanity has colonized several of the planets and moons of the solar system leaving the now uninhabitable surface of planet Earth behind. The Inter Solar System Police attempts to keep peace in the galaxy, aided in part by outlaw bounty hunters, referred to as "Cowboys." The ragtag team aboard the spaceship Bebop are two such individuals.

Mellow and carefree Spike Spiegel is balanced by his boisterous, pragmatic partner Jet Black as the pair makes a living chasing bounties and collecting rewards. Thrown off course by the addition of new members that they meet in their travels—Ein, a genetically engineered, highly intelligent Welsh Corgi; femme fatale Faye Valentine, an enigmatic trickster with memory loss; and the strange computer whiz kid Edward Wong—the crew embarks on thrilling adventures that unravel each member's dark and mysterious past little by little.

Well-balanced with high density action and light-hearted comedy, Cowboy Bebop is a space Western classic and an homage to the smooth and improvised music it is named after.

Source: AnimeLab (Youtube), with Synopsis from MAL

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