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信州小谷太鼓
#japanese traditional music#japanese drummer#japanese taiko drum#otaridaiko#loincloth#native japanese#太鼓#六尺褌#ふんどし#褌#japanese national costume#japanese traditional wear
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Sunny morning shamisen practice 🌞
#alpha chrome yayo#shamisen#toryanse#japanese music#japanese traditional music#japanese folk music#folk music#world music#musical instruments#sunny#comfycore#cottage vibes#cottagecore#cottage aesthetic#cozycore#cottage core
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Japanese Traditional Music Shigin xiè [siːe]
What is xiè?
xiè is a unit comprising the poetry reciter and dancer, Keisei, and the sound designer, Hagi. Keisei’s superb recitation techniques and expressive ability are made one with sound through Hagi’s meticulous programming, creating a vast and highly detailed soundscape. Poetry recitation is a traditional Japanese art, known as shigin. Shigin is usually performed accompanied only by the koto (zither) and shakuhachi (bamboo flute).
xiè’s fusing the voice with computer programming-generated ethnic and ambient sounds is therefore a first, giving rise to a new style of the art.
Also, while shigin is based mainly on Chinese poems (kanshi), and Japanese poems (waka and haiku), which are intoned according to Japan’s native musical scale, with Keisei’s ideas xiè expresses a poetic world unbound by conventions.
The name “xiè” is derived from the legendary creature of Chinese fable, the xièzhì, which is said to be able to discern the good and the bad in all. Likewise, xiè seeks to convey the very heartbeat of music, and make it felt profoundly in all who listen.
CONCEPT
Reviving shigin poetry recitation - the rarely heard echoes of Japan.
Not even many Japanese are aware anymore of shigin and its tonal colors.Hagi, Xiè's sound creator, himself began knowing little of it. But on first encountering the sigin recithed by Keisei, his notion of shigin as drab and monotonous was completely turned on its head.
In fact, he was moved to tears by the power, beauty and evocativeness of their very Japanese tones and echoes.Keisei's desire is to bring the beauty of shigin to as many people as she can, Hagi's desire is to bring this evocative art to people in new, exciting forms. And from there, Xiè came into being.
The new sounds of Xiè will surprise home audiences, and stir those new to things Japanese.In 2013, the shakuhachi player, Soh Tanomura, joined Xiè, further enriching the unit's sound. And Xiè's sound is set to evolve further as more artists join, growing in beauty and power.
Shigin Unit xie
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夢の輪 / Yume no Wa
Roughly translates to “dream of the ring” or maybe “a circular dream”? I’m not sure.
this song is so cool!! the SOEMON ensemble is one of my favorites.
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So beautiful!! ❤
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和楽器バンド*WagakkiBand / "月下美人" MUSIC VIDEO (Queen of the Night)
This band is like a Japanese version of Nightwish, which combines the elements of traditional musical instruments and modern rock music, which is awesome. Would be epic if they do a crossover with Nightwish, the same way they did with Evanescene. I’m glad to have found this band after listening to the opening song of Sengoku Musou, which is an underrated anime based and inspired by actual history. It centers around a samurai named, Yukimura Sanada, who is caught in the warring period of feudal Japan, during the fall of Toyotomi and the rise of Tokugawa.
#wagakki band#japanese music#sengoku musou#japanese traditional music#japanese band#japan#nightwish#evanescence#japanese rock
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mood today
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じょんがら女節 - 長山洋子
What we’re listening to...
“... my shamisen strumming is erratic, because the man confuses me ... “
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Japanese Music - Traditional Bamboo Flute, Koto, Shamisen - Zen Music
#music#japanese traditional music#folk instruments#ethnic#bamboo flute#koto#japan#culture#zen#relaxing
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Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven-Japanese Cover-Nijugen-Koto-NHK Blends
It’s amazing, check it out!
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大太鼓 和太鼓
信州小谷太鼓 おたりだいこ
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A cover song of EAGLES' famous song "Hotel California"!
Collaboration with Japanese traditional music Shigin "Kojo no Tsuki"! I added sound to the shakuhachi and shot it in a traditional townscape from the Edo period.
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An amazing video of traditional Japanese music with a few modern instruments
“a tale of six trillion years and one night“
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