“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.
Archive for the ‘Music’ Category
Nobuyuki Tsujii (Pianist)
July 26, 2009
Maaya Sakamoto Live Tour 2009
July 4, 2009
We Are Kazeyomi
Maaya really puts her soul into her singing – she even shed tears while performing some songs.
Kenji Kawai Concert
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)
Joe Hisaishi: Greatest Hits
March 29, 2009
Joe Hisaishi’s music was often featured in Ghibli films, but he also composed music for many live-action movies. This is a selection of some of his best soundtracks.
Kōhaku Uta Gassen 2008
January 2, 2009
Kōhaku Uta Gassen (紅白歌合戦, Kōhaku Uta Gassen), more commonly known as simply Kōhaku, is an annual music show on the New Year’s Eve. Literally “Red and White Song Battle,” the program divides the most popular music artists of the year into competing teams of red and white. The “red” team or akagumi (赤組, 紅組, akagumi?) is composed of all female artists (or groups with female vocals), while the “white” team or shirogumi (白組, shirogumi?) is all male (or groups with male vocals). Read the rest of this entry ?
“Kuzunoha no Kowakare” by Tsukioka Yukiko
January 2, 2009
Goze (瞽女) is a Japanese historic term referring to visually impaired Japanese women, of whom most worked as musicians. A part of recording “Kuzunoha’s Child Separation” was used in Sara’s performance in Samurai Champloo. It is sung by Tsukioka Yukiko, who studied the recordings of the “last of the Goze’”, Haru Kobayashi and Shizu Sugimoto, and even walked a pilgrimage of all 88 temples of Shikoku island to understand the harsh life of these traveling performers. Read the rest of this entry ?
Denki Groove: Fake It (Hideyuki Tanaka)
November 1, 2008
This is much more fun that the Olympics 
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