Cowboy Bebop OST: What genre is it ?
 

Hey guys :wave:

This is the very first time that I visit this forum, so I'm sorry if this is not the appropriated category to ask what genre is this song :

Felt tip pen . Since I'm new here, I can't post URLs, so you can find the song by searching on youtube : Cowboy Bebop OST 1 - Felt Tip Pen

It sounds like blues/ country music. But I can't find any artist doing this beautiful kind of stuff. :banghead:

Thank you for helping me.

Let me help you out



Sounds like country to me. Off the top of my head i can't think of any country artist that sounds like that cause i don't listen to country alot but ive heard tons of country songs that sound like that song with the slidding guitars and everything.

Try this..



It's not country but it's instrumental and it has a beautiful melody.

Are you interested in similar compositions or in slide guitar music especially?

Thank you Black Francis. Actually Django Reinhardt played gypsy jazz. Up to me, it is very different from what I'm searching for ahah ^^

Grindy, I'm interested in similar type of music, even if it i not slide guitar. But it will be better if it has some slide licks.

Has a Ry Cooder vibe goin on. Love Cowboy Bebop by the way! Read the manga, watched the show, watched the movie, listened to the soundtrack album, all great stuff.

Oh yes, this guy has maybe inspired that OST :) ! as you said, it has a Cooder vibe, that's true.

I've always wondered what the opening theme was. Before I became vaguely aware of what bebop jazz actually was, I just assumed that's what it was, but now it sounds more like swing mixed with ol' school R'n'B/rock'n'roll energy, and maybe a touch of jazz jazz.





Those conga drums just scream swing though. Or maybe mambo. I don't know. I think once mambo got big in the... 40's or 50's (?) the two kind of became intertwined. Or maybe they always were. I don't know. I never listened to much of that stuff unless I was playing Fallout 3.

Still, even if the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack was a kind of lobotomized jazz (along with quite a few other genres), it was still an excellent simplification. Yoko Kanno seems to only be known in anime nerd circles, but she's pretty amazing at composing music that might otherwise be inaccessible to most people (such as jazz and classical) and giving it an immediacy that complements the shows she scores, while also being enjoyable on their own.

Think I might go make a thread about her or search for a pre-existing one.

^ likewise but unlike you i learned it was bebop from a tribe called quest song.



"Back in the days when I was a teenager
Before I had status and before I had a pager
You could find the Abstract listening to hip hop
My pops used to say, it reminded him of Bebop"

Through that simple reference i learned that Bebop was more than just a funny sounding word, it was actually a jazz genre.

Cowboy bb ost 1 when did it come out late 90's I def like in the top 10 albums of the 9o's IMO