Blue Sonnet

Kanno Yoko is a prolific Japanese songwriter and music producer under flying DOG. She also known for her composition for CM songs and popular Japanese pop artists, especially her collaboration with Sakamoto Maaya. She is currently the leader of Japanese jazz band The Seatbelts. Kanno writes lyrics under the name Gabriela Robin.

Megumi Hayashibara (林原 めぐみ, born March 30, 1967) is a Japanese voice actress, singer, radio personality, and lyricist from Tokyo. Over the course of a twenty year career, she has become one of Japan's most popular seiyuu having over 236 roles credited to her name, and she has won Animage's most popular seiyuu award twelve times.

The ensemble of the Instant Composers Pool, or ICP, improvises for 45 years now on the highest level. "These guys can swing like madmen and then all of a sudden play the most sensitive ballads" according to trumpetplayer Dave Douglas.This is really an improvisational monster with ten heads!

Andreas Scholl & Orlando - Scholl Goes Pop
Andreas Scholl / Orlando & Die Unerlösten / Nürnberger Symphoniker / Rick Stengards
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 451 MB | MP3 CBR 320: 179 MB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Sony Classical # 88697127902 | Country/Year: Germany 2007
Genre: Classical / Pop | Style: Crossover

Auf seiner neuen CD *Andreas Scholl Goes Pop* präsentiert der bekannte deutsche Countertenor Andreas Scholl zusammen mit seinem Fachkollegen, dem Counter ORLANDO alias Roland Kunz und dessen Pop-Band "Orlando und die Unerlösten" sowie den Nürnberger Symphonikern unter der Leitung von Rick Stengards eine fantasievolle Mischung aus Klassik und Pop, Barock und Folk, Mystik und Sinfonik. Die CD enthält Songs und Duette aus der Feder der beiden Countertenöre, Balladen in Arrangements von Craig Leon, Frank Zabel, Dieter Reith und Chris Walden - ein spannendes Klassik-Pop Crossoverprojekt, in dem Vergangenheit und Gegenwart engste Kontakte knüpfen.