I was very impressed by the Miyako Odori Geisha dance when I was in Kyoto last year. The music was fascinating because of its expressiveness and sophistication, broken purposefully by exclamations that added to the feeling of restrained eloquence. It gave me the idea to post few videos of Japanese music, here they are!
The soundtrack of Akira (1988) had also parts of classical Japanese music…
There are great Japanese music concerts in Europe, I attended to one few months after my trip to Japan at the Japanese Culture Institute of Cologne (it was played then by Kikuchi Naoko and Carin Levine). There seems to be a well established practice of playing the koto in disruptive ways…
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