I don't even know what it's called!
I used to have a CD of very peaceful Japanese music but I can't find it now so don't know what it was called. Most of it seemed to be played on stringed instruments, there wasn't a defined beat and there were long silences.
It was a little bit like the music to Lostwinds on the Nintendo Wii (but that's a British game).
Wikipedia has a lot about Japanese music http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Japanese_music but I don't know which of the many sorts of music it lists I'd like or what artists, labels or composers play that style.
Any ideas? Links to free music would be good :-)
― mei, Thursday, 5 June 2008 09:23 (seventeen years ago)
I think you're talking of Koto music
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 5 June 2008 09:31 (seventeen years ago)
I must have worn out this CD I got 10 years ago:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41A3PZDCMFL._SS500_.jpg
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 5 June 2008 09:39 (seventeen years ago)
Recommend anything on the ocora label.
― Frogman Henry, Thursday, 5 June 2008 09:45 (seventeen years ago)
I'd also recommend this one for starters
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000005HA7.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 5 June 2008 09:51 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.amazon.com/Koto-Music-Japan-Various-Artists/dp/B000001V42/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1212658846&sr=1-4
is this one by any chance the one you had? i think it was a very popular cd (for japanese koto music marketed to westerners anyway) a decade+ back. anyway it sounds like what you describe, it's really very easy on the ears, i always liked it.
― messiahwannabe, Thursday, 5 June 2008 09:53 (seventeen years ago)
Thanks!
The CD I had wasn't any of those, but I've just ordered 'Lullabye of the Moon' from Amazon, cos of the great title.
I may have a CDR copy of the old album I had, I'll try to find it tonight.
― mei, Thursday, 5 June 2008 10:48 (seventeen years ago)
I must have worn out this CD I got 10 years ago
what's the cd you're recommending here?
― fit and working again, Monday, 19 August 2013 03:33 (eleven years ago)
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Hey, I'm pretty sure the CD I was referring to is the one messiah linked to on Amazon
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 19 August 2013 19:45 (eleven years ago)
cool, thanks.
― fit and working again, Monday, 19 August 2013 19:53 (eleven years ago)
Tbh Lullaby for the Moon is probably an easier entry point as the compositions are shorter and somewhat more melodic, iirc
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 19 August 2013 19:59 (eleven years ago)
i've been digging this gagaku stuff: http://youtu.be/yWrvMH-sDK4
― fit and working again, Monday, 19 August 2013 20:02 (eleven years ago)
i've been digging this gagaku stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWrvMH-sDK4
― fit and working again, Monday, August 19, 2013 4:02 PM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink
!!!!!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXtez8HyUS8
― Deflatormouse, Friday, 24 November 2023 23:07 (one year ago)
I'm obsessed with the sho rn, which is a mouth organ that sounds like light shining through a window casting shadows on the wall
Subsequently, I am going down a Mayumi Miyata rabbit hole
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzwoO7DIZ0A
― Deflatormouse, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 05:11 (one year ago)
that gagaku! Awesome stuff.
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 06:29 (one year ago)
Deflatormouse, you might enjoy Park Jiha...
https://parkjiha.bandcamp.com/album/the-gleam
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 06:48 (one year ago)
I listened to some of that Park Jiha record, I def like it a lot, but it doesn't really approach what I love about this Mayumi Miyata stuff. It's a lot more 'interesting', for one thing. Lately I'm really into pieces where nothing happens for 15 or 30 or 90 minutes... It might have to do with giving the instrumental voice a lot of space
It's definitely pretty cool that she's interested in capturing light in music. I'm not getting the same cast light effect from whatever mouth organ she's playing that I get from the sho. By the way, the sound of a sho is supposed to represent Shiny Lights From The Sky, so that is an acknowledged function of the sho. I'm really into the sound of the flute she's playing that corresponds to the Hichiriki, though. The Piri, I guess. I wasn't aware of this Korean tradition of (presumably) court music with obvious correspondences to gagaku. I should revisit this Park Jiha record, for sure.
As well as Mayumi Miyata's first solo album, there's a pretty cool Toshio Hosokawa record she plays on of purportedly gagaku music, for sho and accordion... it's def not traditional gagaku, though. Like the Park Jiha album it's a modern thing that draws on the traditional music.
― Deflatormouse, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 02:02 (one year ago)
Ok the last track on the Park Jiha album is really nice <3
― Deflatormouse, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 02:04 (one year ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIerLeJ4M1Y
― Deflatormouse, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 02:31 (one year ago)
play music! after play... clean up! perfect!https://taiko-shop.com/cdn/shop/products/bkg-ws01_01_1024_1024x.jpg
https://taiko-shop.com/products/hichiriki-de-pops-book?variant=41148778118
― Deflatormouse, Sunday, 26 May 2024 04:19 (one year ago)