Style: Anime soundtrack
Primary Emotions/Themes: Cowboys in space!
Thoughts: Listening to some soundtracks brings back a lot of memories. Others have no significance whatsoever. I've never seen Cowboy Bebop (I know, I know), so this soundtrack needs to live on the music alone for me to enjoy it.
There is a lot going on here. Zainy melodies zigging and zaging every which way litter almost every song. If nothing else it's certainly lively. In fact the whole thing feels like a big band jazz ensemble playing some sort of greatest hits. None of this is a bad thing, in fact it's kept me intrigued to the point of wanting more.
Then things start shifting, the harmonica comes in. I was not expecting this... not one bit. Not seeing the actual anime probably put me at a huge disadvantage here, but this feels like it came out of no where. Somehow though the music still fits the overall feel of the album.
It all has a very western feel to it. Even the big band stuff feels like it could have come out of a cowboy movie from the 50's or 60's. The harmonica and other gentler tracks obviously fit with the cowboy theme as well... in short it just works.
Cowboy Bebop is one of those anime that is on my list of "things to do before I die." I'll get to watching the adventures of Spike some day, but for now I've got this fascinating record of the music to give me a glimpse of what is contained in those 26 episodes.
Written June 30th 2024
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