The Seatbelts

Seatbelts was the brainchild of prolific Japanese composer, performer, and arranger Yoko Kanno, a band put together to record the soundtrack for the 1998 Japanese anime series Cowboy Bebop. Created by Kanno, who had been a successful soundtrack composer since the mid-'80s, working on video games, anime series, and movies, Seatbelts were put together to record the soundtrack for the Shinichirō Watanabe-helmed anime series Cowboy Bebop, mixing jazz, blues, and rock. Debuting on Japanese television in 1998, the show was aired worldwide, with the series earned praise not only fo...