YOKO KANNO WITH SEATBELTS

Fasten your seatbelts. The original crew is on board. For decades, the music of Seatbelts crossed borders without ever crossing the ocean. Heard, shared, and woven into the lives of listeners around the world, their sound reshaped the very idea of what anime music could be.

Raw, unbound by genre, and free, the music continues to live on as the soundtrack to countless lives. Now, at last, Seatbelts arrives in the United States for the very first time, performed as it was meant to be by the original members who created it.

This is Seatbelts as it truly is. The guest vocalist is the original voice himself, Steve Conte, an essential part of the Seatbelts legacy. The songs that defined an era will be performed by the very musicians who brought them into existence. This is not a tribute. This is the night the real thing finally lands in America. No destination, just the real sound.

About Yoko Kanno

Yoko Kanno is a lyricist, songwriter, arranger, and music producer whose work spans film, television, animation, commercials, and video games. Her notable compositions include Cowboy Bebop, Genesis of Aquarion, Macross Frontier, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, the film Our Little Sister, and the NHK historical drama Naotora: The Lady Warlord, among many others.

She composed the recovery support song for the Great East Japan Earthquake, Flowers Will Bloom (Hana wa Saku), creating several arrangements of the piece. In the first year of the Reiwa era, she composed Ray of Water, a celebratory work for the Japanese Emperor’s enthronement, which was performed in honor of the Emperor and Empress at the Imperial Palace. Her recent work includes music for the Netflix adaptation of Cowboy Bebop and The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House. For Expo 2025 in Osaka, she composed music for a large fountain art installation and contributed to additional pavilion projects, including an extended reality production combining immersive digital visuals with live performance and a haptics based installation utilizing advanced touch feedback technology.