57 Responses to “Sakamichi no Apollon OST Release”

1. random Says:
   February 25th, 2012 at 9:24 pm

   That seems way too early. Are you sure they aren’t confusing it with the manga soundtrack?

2. Yyrkoon Says:
   February 25th, 2012 at 10:37 pm

   On Twitter (http://twitter.com/#!/apollon_anime), they say that a soundtrack will be released soon, but that is not the anime soudntrack but a compilation of original songs heard by the manga characters.

3. Xard Says:
   February 26th, 2012 at 5:56 am

   so we already get OST release but no info on possible OP/ED single release dates yet…

   this just deepens my impression of instrumental OP and ED as likely possibilities.

4. mai Says:
   February 26th, 2012 at 8:11 am

   The JazzJapan magazine apparently says it’s the anime. Maybe talking about different things? Miscommunication?

   http://twitter.com/#!/YK_utahime_Info/status/173312813232697344

5. mai Says:
   February 26th, 2012 at 9:15 am

   cdjapan lists the compilation only cd (not anime) as to be released on April 11. No April 25 entry yet…

   http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/aff/click.cgi/PytJTGW7Lok/385/A819366/detailview.html?KEY=TOCJ-66523

   The plot thickens… :p

6. grunty Says:
   February 26th, 2012 at 11:36 pm

   That’s actually a reissue of an old CD. 3 years old, I think.

7. Ezra Says:
   February 27th, 2012 at 3:46 am

   Where the the Aquarion Evol OST date ?

8. mai Says:
   February 27th, 2012 at 7:09 am

   I’ll just wait for confirmation if there was really a miscommunication. Some say that the April 11 release and the April 25 release are different things.

9. Dalow Says:
   February 27th, 2012 at 1:36 pm

   it’s definitely not the anime OST, almost impossible for it to be

10. random Says:
    February 28th, 2012 at 10:44 am

    Rakuten is listing it with Yoko Kanno as the composer: http://books.rakuten.co.jp/rb/4988010027766/item/11579612/

    This might actually be legit. If it is, I’m going to be very surprised.

11. mai Says:
    February 28th, 2012 at 12:24 pm

    Okay, now we have a catalog number: ESCL-3874

    Essentially, here’s what we have:

    Non-anime, re-release:
    TOCJ-66523
    Re-release Date: April 11

    (claimed to be) Anime, new release:
    ESCL-3874
    Release Date: April 25

    Different prices too – the non-anime is priced much much cheaper (even during its first release in 2009). The one that’s said to be the anime OST is the standard price for anime OSTs.

12. mai Says:
    February 28th, 2012 at 12:28 pm

    And there.

    Amazon Japan has it too, listing Kanno as the composer.

13. sc Says:
    February 29th, 2012 at 7:44 am

    http://www.hmv.co.jp/product/detail/4979161

    2009年「この漫画がすごい オンナ編」1位の「坂道のアポロン」。
    今年小学館漫画賞を受賞。「のだめカンタービレ」以来の本格音楽アニメとしてノイタミナに登場。
    監督：渡辺信一郎×音楽：菅野よう子（カウボーイ・ビバップ）という黄金タッグで制作。
    青春STORYにのるJAZZの名曲たちには否が応でも期待が高まります。
    劇中曲には、STORYを意識したJAZZとしての側面も抜かりはなく、
    Pfに松永貴志、Drsには若干18歳の石若駿を起用。菅野よう子による緊迫感あふれるセッションで収録。
    ※ゲストヴォーカルに手嶌葵を起用も話題に。

    ＜収録予定曲目＞
    ●劇中登場楽曲「モーニン」「バードランド」「いつか王子様が」「マイフェイバリットシングス」「バット ノット フォー ミー」「フォー」「マイルストーン」
    など、数々のJAZZ名曲
    ●菅野よう子書き下ろしによる、オリジナル・サウンドトラック
    ・プロデュース：菅野よう子
    ・ピアノ：松永貴志
    ・ドラム：石若駿
    ほか
    ※ゲストヴォーカル：手島（島は異なります）葵、古川昌義、南里侑香
    （メーカー資料より）

14. sisterm Says:
    February 29th, 2012 at 7:40 pm

    I am also looking forward to the release!
    I´m not sure, did anyone here mention the new cover CD of Rasmus Faber?
    It will contain gravity and platinum, both originally composed by Kanno.

    http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%97%E3%83%AC%E3%82%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%84%E3%83%BB%E3%83%97%E3%83%A9%E3%83%81%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%82%BA/e/B002R8A1IY/ref=ntt_art_dp_pel_1

15. Yyrkoon Says:
    February 29th, 2012 at 8:45 pm

    Finally some info… So there will be only covers in this album? I hope there will be original songs composed for the anime though. I can’t wait for a new PV.

    Besides, Teshima Aoi seems to participate, that’s really great, she must be one of the most beautiful voices in the world today! \o/
    The pianist Takashi Matsunaga seems to be quite famous, I’m a bit disappointed Kanno doesn’t play herself though, but if this is about covers that’s okay for me
    And Masayoshi Furukawa was the guitarist from the Seatbelts in Cowboy Bebop, it’s weird that he’s listed in the guest vocals… Maybe that’s a typo.
    Finally I don’t know Yuuka Nanri, what famous works has she made so far?

16. mai Says:
    March 1st, 2012 at 7:15 am

    Yuuka Nanri is one of Yuki Kajiura’s vocalists. Didn’t Furukawa sing in Bebop?

17. mai Says:
    March 1st, 2012 at 7:17 am

    No, Furukawa sang Perfect World from Escaflowne

18. mai Says:
    March 1st, 2012 at 7:28 am

    Oh, but I remembered right – he also sang ibn Bebop for You Make Me Cool.

19. Ryan Says:
    March 2nd, 2012 at 4:32 am

    Furukawa is a Seatbelts vocalist and guitarist, yeah.

    Kinda sucks that there’s nothing mentioned about Steve Conte or Mai Yamane or any of the other Seatbelt vocalists (at least yet. I’m still hoping!). You’d think they’d be back for a project like this.

20. Dalow Says:
    March 2nd, 2012 at 1:38 pm

    @Ryan: I was thinking the same thing!

    I hope we see a bunch of the Seatbelts work with Kanno on this.

21. Xard Says:
    March 3rd, 2012 at 5:31 am

    I never cared much for most of Escaflowne’s songs but I absolutely love You Make Me Cool and always throught it had best male vocals out of Bebop OSTs. The classic crooning and English pronounciation was so convincing I was really surprised to find out singer was.

    Never would’ve thought it was Seatbelt guitarist though!

    Really cool to have confirmation for DELICIOUS VOCAL SONGS through this. I’ve liked Aoi Teshima’s voice since Earthsea (Because was sweet subdued piece too) and Furukawa being listed as singer hopefully means I get crooners on You Make Me Cool’s level (originals and I find idea of Kanno arranging eg. Summertime attractive idea!)

    Yuuki Nanri is pretty interesting. She’s one of Kajiura’s girls and member of FictionJunction and I wonder how they’re going to use her voice because she really isn’t jazz vocalist at all based on Kajiura material.

    I guess this is first time a vocalist of one of the two big female composers has been used by other…?

    Steve Conte’s vocals don’t have much to do with the style of music I presume this series is going to have.

    I’d give pretty much anything for more Mai Yamane songs though.

22. Xard Says:
    March 3rd, 2012 at 5:33 am

    *I was really surprised to find out singer was japanese.

23. Cadentia Says:
    March 3rd, 2012 at 6:33 am

    So in the end these are just covers? Aw, well. Still excited to see what Kanno does with them.

24. mai Says:
    March 3rd, 2012 at 7:48 am

    @Cadentia – Well the songs are heard in the manga, so they had to be just covers. I think Kanno will still be there to compose for BGM.

25. mai Says:
    March 3rd, 2012 at 7:52 am

    @Xard – Well they have both worked with Emily Bindiger, that’s the only instance I could think of.

    I also thought that Conte won’t be in this because he’s more a rock guy.

26. PerdeskiCloyn Says:
    March 3rd, 2012 at 9:46 am

    Yuuka Nanri is also voicing the main female character on the anime, so I’m guessing she’ll do mostly insert songs (I only read the first 2 chapters of the manga so I’m not really sure). I really liked her work with Yuki Kajiura and can’t wait to see some Kanno magic around her voice.

27. dude Says:
    March 16th, 2012 at 1:50 pm

    Rather than covers, think of them as jazz standards. Part of jazz tradition is taking what’s come before and leaving your personal mark on it.

28. Xard Says:
    April 1st, 2012 at 3:18 am

    So, basically this whole OST is nothing but jazz standards. As I suspected from the start Kanno really is taking a backseat role as a composer on this project.

    What a repertoire though!

    Art Blakey – Moanin’

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKXsnDvILmI

    Weather Report – Birdland

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae0nwSv6cTU

    Miles Davis – Some Day My Prince Will Come

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBq87dbKyHQ

    John Coltrane – My Favourite Things

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQsvMf8X0FY

    George Gershwin – But Not For Me

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnfUN6bBAg4 (Fitzgerald ver)

    With all due respect for Aoi Teshima (who I suspect will be singing this) there’s no way she’ll top a rendition by who was probably 20th Century’s most talented vocalist (at least outside classical music)

    Miles Davis – Four

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPyJLRFk_UY

    Miles Davis – Milestones

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeZomqLM7BQ

    “Wow” is all I can say about this…oh, and rest of the album consists of covers/jazz standards too. The remaining bunch (from cdjapan):

    Horace Silver- Blowing the Blues Away

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7YWmNsKJZ0

    Dizzy Gillespie – A Night in Tunisia

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSau8dhpWqw&feature=related

    Horace Parlan – Us Three

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXwPv2Sqa_k

    Cole Porter – Love For Sale

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll1Z-Z9anpU (Fitzgerald ver)

    Again I’m suspecting Aoi Teshima

    Cole Porter – (You’d Be So) Easy to Love

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izaZR89BJBo (Holiday ver)

    Miles Davis – Bag’s Groove

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkkMX2IWnb8

    John Coltrane – Blue Train

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1GrP6thz-k

    Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart – My Funny Valentine

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqjKOalcI10 (Fitzgerald ver)

    I’m pretty psyched to say the least!

    As far as Kanno’s original compositions go “outtakes” compilation will be safest bet though I suspect even there focus is on improvisational material

29. Xard Says:
    April 1st, 2012 at 3:20 am

    ps. “Yuuka Nanri” still feels out of place with such material as far as the songs by her I know go. Aoi Teshima I can see but….ehh, we’ll see

30. Xard Says:
    April 1st, 2012 at 11:04 pm

    Wait a moment, now the cdjapan link leads to the OST proper with no track list released so far. All those covers are from the “manga OST”

    http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=TOCJ-66523

    Confusing…

31. mai Says:
    April 2nd, 2012 at 10:39 pm

    That’s a different release, the one for the anime has the Kids on the Slope subtitle.

32. random Says:
    April 7th, 2012 at 3:53 pm

    The tracklist and artist info is out. Here it is on VGMdb: http://vgmdb.net/album/31856

33. random Says:
    April 7th, 2012 at 3:55 pm

    And if you want a Japanese source: http://www.yodobashi.com/アニメ「坂道のアポロン」オリジナル・サウンドトラック/pd/100000009000899722/

34. mai Says:
    April 7th, 2012 at 4:01 pm

    Wow, thanks for that!

35. Yyrkoon Says:
    April 7th, 2012 at 4:44 pm

    Great, there ARE original musics, and I like those particular titles:
    14. Equinox 2:40
    15. A Piece Of Blue 1:27
    22. Apollon Blue 2:43

    I’m really waiting for the first ep to air next week!

36. Yyrkoon Says:
    April 7th, 2012 at 4:45 pm

    Also, on a side note, I wonder if there won’t be a new OP for Aquarion tomorrow since the last episode was the number 14 (out of 26) and it didn’t have any opening.

37. Xard Says:
    April 8th, 2012 at 2:01 am

    “That’s a different release, the one for the anime has the Kids on the Slope subtitle.”

    Well yeah, but the original list of upcoming covers you had here where from that “manga ost” by accident I guess…

    Looks like I got My Favourite Things and Lullaby for Birdland (to be fair cdjapan only had “Birdland” in there) wrong: more vocal songs over instrumental compositions makes sense I guess.

    I hope Nanri’s english pronounciation is good for MFT…lol.

    Well, as I suspected there isn’t all that much Kanno original material here (probably no insert songs at all barring OP and ED) but I’m more than eager to hear how she’s arranged these classics

    Aoi Teshima for Lullaby for Birdland makes sense.

38. Fuducky Says:
    April 8th, 2012 at 3:52 am

    M-18, 21
    Composer: Miles Davis
    Arranger: Yoko Kanno

    Very cool. Never thought I’d see that in a track listing.

39. PerdeskiCloyn Says:
    April 8th, 2012 at 8:28 am

    Still unrelated, but I don’t think Go Tight! (the original Aquarion’s second opening) premiered right at the middle point of the series, so it’s anyone’s guess if they’re gonna change it or not in the upcoming episodes of Aquarion Evol.

    But I agree that a new opening is unlikely mostly because we haven’t heard any news about a new single.

    Now, back on topic…

    I can’t wait to listen to her new compositions. For the covers, it’ll probably be more fun to listen how they’re used in the story.

    A little worried about how Yuuka Nanri will handle English lyrics… but I guess her accent won’t really matter on the show since her character is japanese (duh).

40. mai Says:
    April 8th, 2012 at 8:48 am

    The original list of songs that I posted were from various Japanese cd publishers. That it coincides with the manga ones is because the anime holds true to the manga, I guess.

41. Dalow Says:
    April 11th, 2012 at 6:57 am

    2 weeks left, guys! ;D

42. anonarg Says:
    April 13th, 2012 at 9:11 am

    1st episode is already out!

43. mai Says:
    April 13th, 2012 at 11:43 am

    Yep, just watched it, maybe I’ll post my comments later.

44. jason Says:
    April 16th, 2012 at 11:15 pm

    Ep 1 was excellent, I’ve watched it three times already! I had high expectations going into the show, and ep 1 surpassed them. That anime is just that good.

45. Dalow Says:
    April 17th, 2012 at 11:54 am

    I’m a little disappointment in the lack of original content from Kanno on this OST… I was hoping for much more

46. anonarg Says:
    April 20th, 2012 at 11:55 am

    episode 2 music is awesome, piano ending is lovely http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4YsYr89x7k&feature=related

47. mai Says:
    April 25th, 2012 at 8:24 pm

    Aaaw, the cd didn’t chart in the Oricon top 30, but I sort of expected that. I think the Aquarion album should do better. What with a more popular animation, singer and more new songs.

48. Cadentia Says:
    April 25th, 2012 at 9:59 pm

    IMO, they should have waited a bit more before releasing the OST. I feel this was too fast. I hope the OP single makes it, though.

    I’ve listened to the cd a few times already. So far the opinion is very positive. Aoi Teshima’s track is one of my favourite ones.

49. Yyrkoon Says:
    April 26th, 2012 at 2:53 am

    Is that Gabriela Robin singing on the Rosario track??? If that’s her, that was long since her last record!!!

50. Yyrkoon Says:
    April 26th, 2012 at 3:22 am

    I love the piano and the arrangement in My Favorite Things, that’s Yoko Kanno’s touch for sure! I hope a “better” singer (who speaks a good English and has a great voice) would have sung that instead of Yuuka Nanri.

51. Yyrkoon Says:
    April 26th, 2012 at 3:31 am

    As expected, Lullaby of Birdland is superb!
    Totally different from the Ella Fitzgerald version which I love a lot also.

    Hopefully Aoi Teshima will keep on working with Yoko Kanno in the future!

52. Yyrkoon Says:
    April 26th, 2012 at 3:34 am

    Mai, here’s the piece you liked: Easy Waltz!

53. Yyrkoon Says:
    April 26th, 2012 at 3:41 am

    Apollon Blue is a beautiful ending music!
    (A Piece of Blue is a short acoustic guitar version of it)

54. Yyrkoon Says:
    April 26th, 2012 at 5:35 pm

    @Mai: I just realized “Easy Waltz” is not by Yoko Kanno though…

55. mai Says:
    April 26th, 2012 at 6:03 pm

    Yeah, I commented about it in the other post. Still a great piece though. I liked Moanin’ among the standards best, Rosario for Kanno’s originals.

56. Valkyria Says:
    April 27th, 2012 at 3:53 am

    Someday My Prince Will come was fantastic. Used so well in the episode.

57. mai Says:
    April 27th, 2012 at 11:05 pm

    I just saw the third episode. Had me laughing and crying! Can’t wait until next week!

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