Another Case of Mistaken Identity
MediumAtLarge.net reports that they saw Yoko Kanno’s name in the list of live performances in a piano bar in New York.
Tuesday’s concert is at 9:30 PM in Aruba, a Japanese-style piano bar inside the Peking Park Chinese restaurant at 100 Park Avenue. Honest. If you don’t believe me, check out Aruba’s website at www.hpnewyork.com/aruba/, and while you’re there, take a look at their upcoming schedule, as there’s something there that’s currently vexing both Justin and myself.
If you look through Aruba’s list of upcoming performances you’ll see a “Yoko Kanno” is set to play March 20th. Who’s Yoko Kanno? If you even tangentially like anime, you absolutely adore Yoko Kanno. Ms. Kanno is the composer to the scores to animations including Macross Plus, Cowboy Bebop, Vision of Escaflowne, and Ghost in the Shell: STAND ALONE COMPLEX.
Of course it can’t be her, it must be another Yoko Kanno. We already have the other Yoko Kanno pianist to confuse us all, they even attended the same university and are of very close age too. But of course this Aruba bar girl can’t be Kanno. Here’s the photo of the Aruba girl:
Her smile is different, her get-up is too “normal”, it can’t be her. Anyway, even if you can’t convince yourself that it doesn’t look like her, well, our Yoko Kanno won’t be playing in small bars unless she gets paid big. I can just feel it. 
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