Looky looky what I have!

You can read me fanboying all over the Promise CD on twitter, if you choose, but yeah, the CD has some very good "reimagings" of some very familiar music.

The 5 Centimeters Per Second Blu-ray was something I've planned to get for some time, and the Sora no Woto OST CD was the trigger for me to make the order off of cdjapan.

Sora no Woto music

I've been making this claim elsewhere, and it might just be me, but parts of the Sora no Woto soundtrack really reminded me of George Gershwin's An American in Paris. I'm no music expert, but compare the following:

Sora no Woto OST - Track 2 - Ciel bleu

and
Sora no Woto OST - Track 3 - Flànerie

with Gershwin: American in Paris (I) (Rattle, Berlin Phil)

This was too amusing not to pass up:

Shamelessly stolen from the AnimeSuki forums.

In any case, I'm enjoying Sora no Woto so far. Despite how people are comparing the designs to K-ON!, I am with some others seeing some hints of Haibane Renmei and Now and Then, Here and There in the first couple episodes. Hopefully, Sora no Woto lives up to those hints, but even at two episodes in Haibane Renmei was basically still a slice-of-life series with some vague hints of darker things to come.