The title of this album (Kurokami) refers to a traditional classical Japanese composition with that name (also the second song on the CD), meaning black hair (referring to the beautiful long dark hair of Japanese ladies). Clive Bell plays the shakuhachi while Rié Yanagisawa plays the koto, the shamisen, and sings. This CD offers us traditional and ...
Beauty can be a controversial topic, especially when it comes to avant-garde music. Hitting too directly, it can be perceived as sickly sentimental or vapid -- avatars of popular music and its recipes to make the common denominator sigh. Too mannered or buried under the processes of an elaborate artistic approach, it loses its characteristics to ...
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Adiemus Wind and Brass, Bryn Terfel (bass baritone), Catrin Finch (harp), Clive Bell (shakuhachi), Dave Hassell (percussion), Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Frank Ricotti (percussion), Gary Kettel (percussion), Gavin Horsley (bass), Guy Johnson
Clive Bell is a well-known British shakuhachi player as well as a multi-instrumentalist. He studied the shakuhachi in Japan with Kohachiro Miyata, one of today's greatest Japanese shakuhachi masters. He also plays with Japanese koto player Rie Yanagisawa. Bell proposes here a solo CD for the shakuhachi, mixing well-known solo shakuhachi pieces ...
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