The Tower of Babel - Yoko Kanno

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  • Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
  • Yoko Kanno - The Creation
    ~ The tower of Babel ~
    Cet album, un des tout premiers de Yoko Kanno, a été publié en 1991.
    Le thème de The Tower of Babel a été réutilisé par Yoko en 2000 pour le thème de Sora dans l'OST de Escaflowne - The movie.

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  • @RichardHannay
    @RichardHannay 4 роки тому +817

    We have to thank the guy who bought this super rare CD and shared this song for everyone!

    • @excrono
      @excrono 3 роки тому +43

      I know, right! This album really needs a reissue. I think enough Yoko Kanno fans would purchase it to make this worthwhile for the publisher.

    • @BibtheChib
      @BibtheChib 3 роки тому +15

      I come here maybe once every two days, for the past few months. I have carefully designed a whole list of my top 100 songs with my top song being there for about 10+ years. I only came across this in 2021, and it is already my all time favourite song. It is so brilliant that I couldn't even deny it from the start.

    • @TheWickedWizardOfOz1
      @TheWickedWizardOfOz1 2 роки тому +1

      At least the whole album is on UA-cam now. I wish that I could buy the CD, though. I always try to get physical copies of my music if possible, and The Creation would be right at the top of the list for me.

    • @TheAncientMysteriesBeckon
      @TheAncientMysteriesBeckon 2 роки тому +2

      @@TheWickedWizardOfOz1 what’s the album name ?

    • @dannorwood4906
      @dannorwood4906 2 роки тому

      @@TheAncientMysteriesBeckon This is Sora's theme from the Escaflowne OST

  • @SOMeDoOD1992
    @SOMeDoOD1992 11 років тому +337

    Yoko Kanno, why do you have this inherent ability to touch my soul so deeply with your music?

    • @eemajinemirror9249
      @eemajinemirror9249 3 роки тому

      Cause Erik Satie and jazz :-) ua-cam.com/video/b9WKC5sT9Z4/v-deo.html

  • @ki1021002
    @ki1021002 5 місяців тому +13

    이 노래를 들을 때 이따금씩 가본적 없는 세계에 빠져드는 느낌이 든다.

    • @sofiaquiros7980
      @sofiaquiros7980 2 місяці тому +1

      Me too 🌌🌄

    • @The1wCr
      @The1wCr 28 днів тому +1

      Have you heard the version used in Scaflowne called Sora?

  • @supernormalperson4964
    @supernormalperson4964 2 роки тому +14

    言葉の壁は大きくて厚いけど
    この曲を聴いている人がどんな気持ちなのかは言葉を介さなくても分かる
    神様は音楽という共通言語だけは残してくれたのだ

  • @HDubstepCentral
    @HDubstepCentral 11 років тому +212

    Yoko Kanno is a genius.

  • @PlatonicPurplePanda
    @PlatonicPurplePanda 4 роки тому +43

    I've been a fan of The Vision of Escaflowne for over a decade and I didn't know there is this song which would be later added into the movie. WOW.

  • @eskimointhisworld
    @eskimointhisworld 3 роки тому +51

    So beautiful~ It sounds haunting and sad, like a beautiful lost legend that can't be clearly recalled.

    • @magoschonkers711
      @magoschonkers711 3 роки тому +8

      This comment is beautiful too, I couldn't have put it better

    • @ammarakila17
      @ammarakila17 3 роки тому +4

      Do you mind if I borrowed this description?

  • @엄성원-q7f
    @엄성원-q7f Рік тому +12

    칸노 요코가 작업했던 곡만 샀던 적도 있었죠.. 당시 한국에서 구하기 쉽지는 않았지만...몽환적이면서 가슴저미는 느낌을 얻을 수 있어서 감사한 곡이에요. 살아 있음을 느끼게 해주네요.

  • @cherryjoyAcub
    @cherryjoyAcub 6 років тому +65

    iIts somewhat sad, full of memories, traveling back in time, soul in silence searching for identity in this world..Love and simplicity Its full of emotions that touched your soul.Yoko Kanno is a brilliant composer with Maaya Sakmoto voice..Its like music in heaven and beyond.

  • @damxcv
    @damxcv 4 роки тому +13

    Music that is neither sad or happy .
    This music is truly magical, "peaceful" is the best word I could describe it from my perspective

  • @bristratostar7908
    @bristratostar7908 3 роки тому +12

    Not sure where my comment from years ago went, but this definitely Sora from Escaflowne, instrumental. Gosh, the classics really are immortal!

  • @himez123
    @himez123 9 років тому +242

    This song should play indefinitely throughout the cosmos!!

    • @Ephrones
      @Ephrones 9 років тому +9

      +himez123 Maybe it does.

    • @Tarik360
      @Tarik360 8 років тому +3

      And what, followed by a monologue from either Patrick Stewart or the narrator from Legend of the Galactic heroes?

    • @Ephrones
      @Ephrones 8 років тому +10

      “Another page in the history of the galaxy”

    • @KimCheongBRO
      @KimCheongBRO 8 років тому +16

      +himez123
      If it has ever been transmitted by radio wave, it does. Like the rest of our terrestrial transmissions.

    • @countbobula8071
      @countbobula8071 6 років тому

      its beautifuly mang

  • @lifecycle414
    @lifecycle414 10 років тому +10

    菅野さんの曲には新鮮なパワーをもらってばかりだが、この曲はひなびた感じの
    「落ち着き」をもらう。
    冷静になりたいときにはとてもいい。

  • @mayloryify
    @mayloryify 10 років тому +58

    What an amazing song!! :D and the name "The tower of Babel", makes sense with the song Sora, because Sora´s lyrics are writen in a language Yoko kanno created herself. So It reminds me the story of the tower

    • @dimitrioskakogiannos2283
      @dimitrioskakogiannos2283 9 років тому +4

      did she really create a language? can it be found somewhere??? you made me curious i just love Yokko Kanno´s music and didnt know that D:

    • @bokuwakuma554
      @bokuwakuma554 9 років тому +4

      as far as i know, "Sora" lyric is in rumanian's language

    • @AeriaIistic
      @AeriaIistic 9 років тому +6

      Dimitrios Rock her language is gibberish. Beautiful flowing gibberish. It seems like she took the smooth and "easy-to-connect" sounds/phonetics of every language and put it together. That might be a coincidence, but at least it sounds good!

    • @dimitrioskakogiannos2283
      @dimitrioskakogiannos2283 9 років тому +5

      Kawaii i see, indeed it sounds beautiful. Her songs seems just like lullabies.

  • @askingwhyisfree7436
    @askingwhyisfree7436 4 роки тому +14

    it's not the words...it's what it meant. Animals don't speak but understood. Nature can't talk but it has meaning....this tune has a message....it's not by words but by the spirit.

  • @Eoxamotl
    @Eoxamotl  12 років тому +11

    Thank you for these precisions. They have been added to the description of the video, so that everybody can be informed !

  • @zhizn_snake
    @zhizn_snake 9 років тому +135

    It's kinda creepy to think that back when I first heard Sora, I always imagined it being sung by someone locked away in a tower....

  • @ThePatsyMusic
    @ThePatsyMusic 11 років тому +4

    As a songwriter, this melody is the zenith of the art as is its author

  • @brahmabull84
    @brahmabull84 11 років тому +57

    Kind of remind me of a Joe Hisaishi composition.
    Japan has many great music composers working for anime, movie and video game industry.

  • @carbonunit9314
    @carbonunit9314 2 місяці тому +1

    Yooo finally found it again, never leave your music unbacked up guys!

  • @Gauss777
    @Gauss777 4 роки тому +28

    Essa música consegue transcender o tempo, e me levar para um passado que não existiu, mas que é realmente lindo.

  • @BibtheChib
    @BibtheChib 2 роки тому +9

    This song makes me shiver and tear up, I'm still trying to associate it with a memory I have in my head. Can't find one. Wondering if it's something I'm hoping for rather than something I've lived.

  • @onelee4236
    @onelee4236 Рік тому +3

    Music feeling never changes

  • @KeyOfTheTwilight
    @KeyOfTheTwilight 10 років тому +77

    OMG Sora from Escaflowne the MOVIE XD

    • @derHermann
      @derHermann 10 років тому +9

      This one came first (description) ;)

    • @KeyOfTheTwilight
      @KeyOfTheTwilight 10 років тому +4

      That's cool! ^_^ So they decided to use this for the movie afterwards then? :D

    • @Escarii
      @Escarii 6 років тому +2

      That was my exact reaction!

    • @chadfranklin47
      @chadfranklin47 5 років тому +5

      Yeah, I had listened to this album many times before watching the movie and it was a pleasant surprise hearing the melody again in the movie.

  • @otakuelement3306
    @otakuelement3306 7 місяців тому +2

    This remainds me of the 1999 HxH songs, heart warming

  • @glazedgamer7661
    @glazedgamer7661 9 років тому +7

    This and cloudy road are the most beautiful pieces of music

  • @ykcamseyer
    @ykcamseyer 10 років тому +36

    I haven't been able to fathom how such a beautiful and soothing melody as this be named after the Tower of Babel.

    • @Svidrigailov1
      @Svidrigailov1 10 років тому +20

      Maybe because when trying to describe the feelings it stirs in us, our words come out all jumbled

    • @togapast
      @togapast 9 років тому +7

      You should listen to the complete concert, called "The Creation". For me, it's a masterpiece.

  • @aerozchris7635
    @aerozchris7635 5 років тому +5

    underrated masterpiece of yoko kanno

  • @1337174m1
    @1337174m1 11 років тому +12

    This song is infused with the feeling of longing and nostalgia.

  • @atooss
    @atooss 4 роки тому +5

    This is a master piece

  • @levonpoe
    @levonpoe 9 років тому +13

    sweet and meditative. this is music for healing

  • @kyenkagami
    @kyenkagami 4 роки тому +2

    yoko kano... since i knew wolf rain master piece art, anime, music fall in love with this music its been soo many years ....

  • @BigTroubleD
    @BigTroubleD 7 років тому +5

    Oh my goodness how have I never heard this version of sora before!? ❤❤❤

  • @dicoandila
    @dicoandila 12 років тому +11

    I imagine being in the days of ancient Babylon while listening to this song.....wow

  • @JG-yo3ft
    @JG-yo3ft 6 років тому +2

    Escaflowne movie. song "sora". she used the melody from the first 2 min 30 sec of this song. was there when they first showed the movie at anime expo in LA back in summer of 2000. that song sora was on my mind that whole summer. both this and sora are great.

  • @xanderstuivenberg
    @xanderstuivenberg 2 роки тому +3

    Let's get 1 million views on this one guys! Yoko deserves it 😝 almost there!

  • @nsytr06
    @nsytr06 4 роки тому +13

    Makes me want to pick up sax again...
    so much emotion...

    • @auriels1451
      @auriels1451 4 роки тому +1

      IKR ITS SOOOO GOOD - I've been learning it on my sax - so nice to hear a classical sax piece (so rare in anime) ~ thanks Kanno!!!

  • @slangoftheregions
    @slangoftheregions 11 років тому +3

    this was and still is my all time favorite song. never heard the full original version before though

  • @Anianka
    @Anianka Рік тому +4

    Big Gymnopedia vibes. Love it.

  • @andreubadia6119
    @andreubadia6119 6 років тому +3

    too beautiful!! Yoko Kanno is an Earth's god, thank you!!!

  • @kk4247a
    @kk4247a Рік тому +2

    A tender lament for all - to be human is to live in the Tower of Babel. I take this song as a commission to love and understand.

  • @fantasyfanatic1995
    @fantasyfanatic1995 8 років тому +29

    so this is where the lullaby from escaflowne came from...

  • @addlass
    @addlass 12 років тому +102

    From what I have looked up, The Creation was made in 1991. The anime was made in 1996 and the movie in 2000.
    It is kind of hard to find stuff about "The Creation" because it is one of her less known and harder to find works.

    • @snowybuny
      @snowybuny 3 роки тому +4

      And have Satie's gnossienes notes too

    • @snowybuny
      @snowybuny 3 роки тому +4

      And gymnopedies

    • @akingungormus7428
      @akingungormus7428 3 роки тому

      You're probably never going to see this, but on the slim chance that you might, can you reply with the link to the anime?

    • @HowIin
      @HowIin 3 роки тому

      @@akingungormus7428 I'd love to know this too

    • @bombomos
      @bombomos 2 роки тому +4

      Isn't this Escaflowne?

  • @JRF777
    @JRF777 8 років тому +1

    Beautiful piece of music combined with dreamed melody of Satie...

  • @_c294
    @_c294 9 років тому +5

    Sounds like "Sora", beautiful !

    • @RegulaVestus
      @RegulaVestus 6 років тому +1

      The first part is the same melody. =)

  • @EnchantedSmellyWolf
    @EnchantedSmellyWolf 10 років тому +7

    Very soft comfortable music..

  • @bradliminator
    @bradliminator 11 років тому +6

    High, but not excessively so. Warm, reedy tones, breathy quality but with quick response on the tonguing.
    Ill vote for this being an alto saxophone on a classical mouthpiece.

  • @nathansnow11
    @nathansnow11 2 роки тому +1

    Long live this relic❤

  • @PhilospherDjPsychologist24
    @PhilospherDjPsychologist24 2 роки тому

    All that work
    and it amounted to nothing
    it did demonstrate the character of those who built it, that can't be disputed
    but what comfort is that knowing you have to start over again

  • @Sanji445
    @Sanji445 7 років тому +2

    Wow... Beautiful !

  • @2706mauricio
    @2706mauricio 5 років тому +1

    Una joya para los ñoños de todo el Orbe, no maduren nunca se perderan la belleza del amanecer y esto.....

  • @RRChillin
    @RRChillin 4 дні тому

    Im glad i found this

  • @TwilighMidna
    @TwilighMidna 11 років тому +3

    This song is great.

  • @emilyp8928
    @emilyp8928 8 років тому +4

    Aw this came out the year I was born!

  • @Nevesdeath
    @Nevesdeath 13 років тому +1

    Best Song Ever. Thanks so much for uploading.

  • @nomade_078
    @nomade_078 8 років тому +118

    I love music, but this is not music, this is something greater than music, this is yoko kano.

    • @jorgeamaro2686
      @jorgeamaro2686 7 років тому +12

      Nomade _0 no this is exactly what music is

    • @NGEvangeliman
      @NGEvangeliman 7 років тому +3

      yoko kanno, shiro sagisu, and nobuo uematsu are the best composers in entertainment...

    • @ukhio
      @ukhio 7 років тому +3

      I have followed Yoko for years. She is so special. I always find something new in every album I get. Damn My favourite female composer.

    • @passion_flora
      @passion_flora 6 років тому +1

      ukhio let’s be honest, she’s better than a ton of male composers. Her genius and, say, Hisaishi’s genius are insurmountably unique. At this level, it’s not even a matter of competition but of taste.

    • @ciri4kgaming7
      @ciri4kgaming7 6 років тому +1

      You forgot ur hat.

  • @Pookie1-q2w
    @Pookie1-q2w 5 років тому +2

    This music makes me feel like I'm traveling to so many places and so far away from my home

  • @mariahervas5503
    @mariahervas5503 8 років тому +4

    It's a precious version of sora's song

  • @Flowerbarrel
    @Flowerbarrel 10 років тому +4

    Oh, a remix of Sora. I really like the main instrument here. Oboe, clarinet--I admit even after I'm told over and over, I can never remember how to tell them apart. But I've heard both of them, and I like them a lot. I like that this version of Sora is quieter and more leisurely.

    • @nickcomposer
      @nickcomposer 10 років тому +22

      Actually, this came first, and Sora's theme was taken from it. The instrument is alto saxophone.

    • @Flowerbarrel
      @Flowerbarrel 10 років тому +2

      Cool. :) Thanks for explaining!

    • @auriels1451
      @auriels1451 4 роки тому +1

      Its a shame that u dont really get to hear classical-style saxophone that much in anime ;((( - But thanks to Kanno we have this amazing piece omg I love playing this on sax!!!

    • @junkyb
      @junkyb 3 роки тому +1

      I wish I knew this piece existed when I was picking my alto sax concerto piece for my senior year. I didn't watch Escaflowne til a few years later to discover the song and its origins.

  • @se7emarcelo
    @se7emarcelo 2 роки тому

    Beautiful... This melody was used in the soundtrack of an old anime, I guess was Scawflone. Delightfull to hear, thanks...

  • @JPDSIII
    @JPDSIII 7 років тому +14

    Where to purchase a physical album of The Creation by Yoko Kanno?

  • @FernandoMendoza-dw8nz
    @FernandoMendoza-dw8nz 12 років тому

    This is absolutely beautiful. Makes me think of an oasis in the middle of a barren desert.

  • @phase866
    @phase866 12 років тому +8

    I swear I can here a bit of Sora in here. Anyways, I just finished up Patricia Nell Warren's The Front Runner and I swear, this is an awesome OST to listen to while ending that book. Like, damn. I can't hold all of these feels man.

  • @Cemlorot
    @Cemlorot 8 років тому +124

    i hear some erik satie

    • @PAJA63
      @PAJA63 8 років тому +30

      It's a hallmark for her whole career, being able to touch upon some great classic or ethnic or other great music - without making it sound like a rip-off. This kind of quality gives the music of Yōko Kanno a golden lining. :-)

    • @Cemlorot
      @Cemlorot 8 років тому +3

      yeah, that's why her music so fluidly beautiful

    • @Dreamwalker44
      @Dreamwalker44 7 років тому +1

      Jazzy Adam
      ikr

    • @nihil45
      @nihil45 7 років тому +7

      Gymnopédie No.1... My favourite piece of all time.

    •  6 років тому +1

      could you name some pieces by him that sound like this please?

  • @tammy2755
    @tammy2755 4 роки тому +5

    Music is the sound of emotions

  • @tjippo8197
    @tjippo8197 6 років тому +1

    This is a true masterpiece.

  • @DME309
    @DME309 8 років тому +5

    Bitter Sweet

  • @yonotarukato8277
    @yonotarukato8277 Місяць тому +1

    My life is unfair. I want to live, but I can't. If love can save me, please do it now...

  • @theGatheringPlaceSOX
    @theGatheringPlaceSOX 11 років тому

    Simply beautiful

  • @АлексК-ф9я
    @АлексК-ф9я 10 років тому +3

    очень красиво...

  • @DjisasXIII
    @DjisasXIII 4 роки тому

    This reminds me, gotta rewatch that Escaflowne movie

  • @mariusyapo9070
    @mariusyapo9070 5 років тому +1

    Wonderful

  • @inukaiversus
    @inukaiversus 11 років тому

    Ah, thanks so much. I haven't seen this anime for so LONG. >< Thanks again for helping me.

  • @LegendoftheGalacticHero
    @LegendoftheGalacticHero 2 роки тому

    Thank you for sharing this

  • @ALegitimateYoutuber
    @ALegitimateYoutuber 11 років тому

    this is such a great and relaxing song, i love it.

  • @djefardeur7958
    @djefardeur7958 Рік тому +1

    dope

  • @smilecolorsan
    @smilecolorsan 12 років тому

    oh snap! I have this song!!! I didn't realize it was called something else! Sora! :)

  • @PoseidonKross2009
    @PoseidonKross2009 12 років тому +2

    This song sounds as good as a soft pillow feels :)

  • @solidradin4
    @solidradin4 3 роки тому +4

    im making a dnd hombrew bout the tower of babylon and im sure as heck im using this and the ending song

  • @Urcanto
    @Urcanto 2 роки тому

    Esta canción es la mejor me gusta siempre la escucho me hace llorar es como una arma de doble filo me gusta pero me lastima esta hermosa escucharla me hace recordar que perdi algo que nuca lo recupere hermosa melodía

  • @theilliad4298
    @theilliad4298 4 роки тому +2

    i recgnized that escaflowne tune anywhere,

  • @e.felthuis703
    @e.felthuis703 9 років тому +10

    I want to play this on piano, does anyone know where to find a sheet?

  • @sailormaria
    @sailormaria 11 років тому

    sora!!!! just love it

  • @lanchanoinguyen2914
    @lanchanoinguyen2914 7 років тому +2

    she is very talent,i hard to admit someone.

  • @Yamaneko81
    @Yamaneko81 8 років тому +45

    Hey its sora!

    • @SacredMovementJM
      @SacredMovementJM 8 років тому +3

      +Yamaneko81 yeah what the heck! lol

    • @aultinbarltino
      @aultinbarltino 8 років тому +5

      +Yamaneko81 i recognised it too :') haven't heard this song since witnessing an extremely emotional moment in one of my fave anime (if you've seen clannad, you'll probs know what i mean)

    • @IgnitWacom
      @IgnitWacom 8 років тому +9

      +Yamaneko81 She used this melody in Sora too, but this was the first version.

    • @marijaisai
      @marijaisai 6 років тому

      Which one you mean?

    • @rei_cirith
      @rei_cirith 5 років тому

      @@aultinbarltino I have not, but now I'm curious. Any video links?

  • @giminkim9282
    @giminkim9282 8 років тому +4

    sehr angenehm

  • @hisle9188
    @hisle9188 2 роки тому +1

    ..,...................... Tower of Babel ........................

  • @ChipLinck
    @ChipLinck 11 років тому

    Thanks, I knew I recognized it, but couldn't place it.

  • @Soloduerme93
    @Soloduerme93 13 років тому +1

    Thisss is SORA?? the theme of the movie Escaflowne : a girl in Gaea...
    wow this is the first time i listened this track...
    is soo soft and confortable
    great creation , yoko kanno :D

  • @danukah
    @danukah 11 років тому

    couldn't be this more awesome?*-*

  • @DrunkenDarkSoul
    @DrunkenDarkSoul 6 років тому +1

    at the 3:00 there is a little tune I remember from KareKano (his and her circumstances)
    "Treasure Every Moment" I think its called.

  • @g3c4c
    @g3c4c 3 роки тому

    great music

  • @theGatheringPlaceSOX
    @theGatheringPlaceSOX 11 років тому +3

    you can hear the inspiration

  • @LutherTaylor
    @LutherTaylor 3 роки тому

    absolutely in love with 2:30 to 3:30

  • @meridonmage9076
    @meridonmage9076 4 роки тому +1

    Seriousness of the Search for Transcendent lore, research in the fluctuance of frequencies, energies, geometric structures & electromagnetism.... Constructivism like Ice Chrystals grow to Sound variations & light frequencies.. as to the Harmonics of life's Renewable Algoritmes of the Algebraïsche engine like structure mechanisms of the Sea Algae..

  • @StephenPageSax
    @StephenPageSax Рік тому +2

    Another version of Yoko Kanno's music for saxophone can be heard here!! : ua-cam.com/video/TZg4wQdS_Tc/v-deo.html

  • @Eoxamotl
    @Eoxamotl  13 років тому +2

    @cycyuts Yes, it's one of her earliest album, and she reused some melodies for her next songs. I'll post other tracks from "The Creation" but I'd like to make know some other albums I love, before ;)

  • @Ardent_Imaginator_Sai
    @Ardent_Imaginator_Sai 3 роки тому +1

    WOW!

  • @ga1actic_muffin
    @ga1actic_muffin 12 років тому +1

    oh wow, what a twist in this story of life

  • @jokorea8068
    @jokorea8068 5 років тому

    정말이지 사랑하지 않을 수 없는 음율。。おちる