Archive for the ‘Music’ Category
October 22, 2011
Posted in Culture, Japan, Music | Tagged 瞽女, Goze, Japan, Japanese, Japanese Culture, Japanese History, Japanese Music, Sakura Sōgorō, yamamoto goi, 佐倉惣五郎 | Leave a Comment »
January 18, 2011
Posted in Anime, Japan, Music | Tagged Anime, Bach Collegium Japan, Countertenor, 米良 美一, Hayao Miyazaki, Japan, Japanese Classical Music, Japanese Music, Japanese Songs, Joe Hisaishi, Mononoke Hime, Music, Opera, Princess Mononoke, Song, Yoshikazu Mera | 4 Comments »
January 7, 2011
Photo by Srta Gisa
“Everybody experienced one’s mother’s heartbeat as an embryonic music. The sound of taiko is rooted in the common memory of mankind beyond different ethnic history. I think that people are drawn to taiko because of our primitive memory of life itself.” Eitetsu Hayashi
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Posted in Culture, Japan, Music | Tagged Art, Culture, Eitetsu Hayashi, Japan, Japanese Drum, Japanese Drumming, Kodo, Music, Odaiko, Ondekoza, Sado-Ondekoza, Taiko, Za Ondekoza | 4 Comments »
December 18, 2010
Yuki Saori (由紀さおり) Scat of the Dawn (Scat in the Dark), Ta ya tan
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Posted in Japan, Music | Tagged Anime, Japan, Music, Japanese Music, 1969, Yuki Saori, Saori Yuki, 夜明けのスキャット, タ・ヤ・タン, 由紀さおり, 由紀さおり夜明けのスキャット, Yuki Saori Scat of the Dawn, Yuki Saori Scat in the Dark, Yuki Saori Scat, Yuki Saori Ta ya tan, Yuki Saori Songs, 1970s Music | 4 Comments »
November 26, 2010
KOKIA Real World Album and Oto no Tabibito Concert 2010
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Posted in Japan, Music | Tagged Anime, Japan, Japanese Music, KOKIA, KOKIA Ave Maria, KOKIA 私が見たもの, KOKIA in Europe, KOKIA Oto no Tabibito, KOKIA Real World, KOKIA Watashi ga Mita Mono, Music | 10 Comments »
July 12, 2010
Posted in Japan, Music | Tagged Akira Mitake, Best Japanese Song of All Time, Best Japanese Song of Ever, Best Song Ever, Best Song of All Time, Hibari Misora, Japan, Japanese Music, Japanese Songs, Kawa no nagare no yō ni, Like the Flow of the River, Music, Yasushi Akimoto, 川の流れのように | 7 Comments »
June 1, 2010
Posted in Japan, Music | Tagged Buddhist chants, Gagaku, Japan, Japanese Music, Music, Music Scales, Pentatonic Scale, Power of Pentatonic Scale, Sakura, Shakuhachi, Shomyo, World Science Festival | 4 Comments »
May 9, 2010
Posted in Japan, Music | Tagged Classical Guitar, Concierto de Aranjuez, Danza del Molinero, El Sombrero de Tres Picos, Enryaku-ji Temple, Guitar, Guitar Music, Invocación y Danza, Japan, Joaquín Rodrigo, Kaori Muraji, Manuel de Falla, Music, Roland Dyens, Soichi Muraji, Soshunfu, Tango en Skai, 早春譜, 村治 佳織 | 16 Comments »
July 26, 2009
“When I was a kid, I once said, ‘I’m blind,’ and my parents went quiet. So I quickly added, ‘But I’m all right because I play the piano,’ to try and console them. It’s my true feeling,” Tsujii said.
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Posted in Japan, Music | Tagged Blind Pianist, 辻井伸行, Japan, Music, Nobuyuki Tsujii, Nobuyuki Tsujii Biography, Nobuyuki Tsujii Chopin, Nobuyuki Tsujii Rachmaninov, Piano, Van Cliburn International Piano Competition | 2 Comments »
July 4, 2009
Kenji Kawai (Death Note, Eden of the East, Fate/stay night, Ghost in the Shell, Higurashi, Maison Ikkoku, Gundam, Moribito, Patlabor, Ranma ½, Vampire Princess Miyu)
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Posted in Japan, Music | Tagged Anime, Anime Music, Kenji Kawai, Kenji Kawai Concert | Leave a Comment »
