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The Very Best of Japanese Music

The Very Best of Japanese Music (2004) more music like this

by Various Artists

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Song of the Seashore & Other Melodies of Japan

Song of the Seashore & Other Melodies of Japan (1979) more music like this

by James Galway

It has been said that James Galway's appeal crosses all musical boundaries. In this album, the Belfast-born Galway successfully crosses into Japanese music. But while Galway's talent with his flute is evident, like some others of Galway's non-classical albums, this music lacks technical challenges that might make one sit up and listen. These ...

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The Best of Kodo

The Best of Kodo (1994) more music like this

by Kodo

To the uninitiated, all songs on a given Kodo album sound the same. To the initiated, though, subtle differences, as well as broad ones, can be noted. On Best of Kodo, the band cuts loose on a journey through their own history, piecing together a compilation of some of the best tracks in current Japanese music, further still, music in general. The ...

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Mondo Head

Mondo Head (2002) more music like this

by Kodo

Produced by world music scholar (and former Grateful Dead percussionist) Mickey Hart, Mondo Head documents a series of performances by Japanese taiko ensemble Kodo. Recorded in California and Japan across the spring and summer of 2001, the album features an airy reproduction of Kodo's massive sound. Though taiko music is comprised predominantly of ...

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Tataku: The Best of Kodo, Vol. 2 (1994-1999)

Tataku: The Best of Kodo, Vol. 2 (1994-1999) (2001) more music like this

by Kodo

While the drum-based Japanese group Kodo are at their most thrilling in live performance, where one can fully experience the mastery of rhythm and stage dynamics, this compilation should be a treat for fans of their particular genius. While the drum jams may overstay their welcome on record, one can still appreciate their power and energy. Tim ...

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Explorer Series East Asia/Japan: Shakuhachi Music - A Bell Ringing in the Empty Sky

Explorer Series East Asia/Japan: Shakuhachi Music - A Bell Ringing in the Empty Sky (2007) more music like this

by Various Artists

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Ibuki

Ibuki (1997) more music like this

by Kodo

On Ibuki, Kodo worked with Bill Laswell to pump out an album of intense Taiko drumming, as usual. This time around, they reworked a few pieces that had been done on previous albums, including a piece from the soundtrack to The Hunted and "Zoku" by Leonard Eto, which shows up here and there in the Kodo collection. The driving force behind Kodo is ...

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Beyond

Beyond (2004) more music like this

by Agatsuma

Agatsuma's second album largely duplicates what he did on his first -- he plays his shamisen like ringing a bell over programmed backing tracks. The difference is that, this time around, there's more care and thought in at least some of those programmed tracks. So while something like "Dawnlight" can come across as bland in the very worst new age ...

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Drums of Tokyo

Drums of Tokyo (1998) more music like this

by Oedo Sukeroku Taiko

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Sai-So: The Remix Project

Sai-So: The Remix Project (1999) more music like this

by Kodo

The Kodo group is Japan's global ambassador of Taiko drumming. This fanatical group arose in 1981 from an island colony of traditional Taiko drummers that sought nothing else but perfection of their art. The religious intensity and single-mindedness of this small (population 40) thorp clearly comes across on the mighty percussion forays contained ...

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Live at the Acropolis (1995) more music like this

by Kodo

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Beams (2003) more music like this

by Agatsuma

Hiromitsu Agatsuma is a truly gifted player of the shamisen, the traditional three-string Japanese instrument. However, he's taken it in a very new direction, putting his fingerwork on top of programmed tracks that run the gamut from ambient to almost-pounding techno. While Agatsuma has a deep grounding in traditional Japanese music, here he gives ...

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The Voice of Geisha Doll (2006) more music like this

by Umekichi

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Eternal Songs (2005) more music like this

by Agatsuma

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Shakuhachi: The Japanese Flute (1994) more music like this

by Clive Bell

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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Kodo Vs. Yosuke Yamashita In Live (1986) more music like this

by Kodo/Yosuke Yamashita

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Water Spirits (1997) more music like this

by Honoka

The shortest of these four compositions for the Japanese instruments shakuhachi (bamboo flute) and koto (zither) is nearly ten minutes. These pieces stream with tidal grace. It is a very understated, suggested style. Composer Satsuki Odamura knows this in her native tongue as ma . Music to transport you to an oceanic headspace. Thomas Schulte, ...

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Ichi on Buttsu (1997) more music like this

by Ronnie Nyogetsu Seldon

In Japan, there are many schools and style of playing the shakuhachi. Ronnie Nyogetsu Seldin comes from the Jin Nyodo school and is one of the greatest Japanese shakuhachi masters of the 20th century who died almost 40 years ago. He proposes seven pieces of that tradition, plus one of his own compositions. What strikes with Seldin's playing is the ...

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Samurai Collection (2004) more music like this

by Various Artists

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Zen Shakuhachi (Hollow Bell) (1995) more music like this

by Ray Brooks

This is Ray Brooks' first solo CD, and he is thus a newcomer among the Westerners taking on this Japanese instrument. He is one of the few Canadians to produce a CD of Japanese shakuhachi music, and quite possibly the only one to record an entire CD of traditional honkyoku solo pieces (i.e., the music of the Japanese Zen Buddhist monks). The ...

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Kurokami (1988) more music like this

by Clive Bell & Rié Yanagisawa

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 ...

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Komuso: The Healing Art of Zen (2000) more music like this

by Ronnie Nyogetsu Seldon

Ronnie Nyogetsu Seldin's third album Komuso: The Healing Art of Zen focuses on the subtle, contemplative aspects of the shakuhachi flute, using its winding melodies as a focus for meditation and healing. Pieces like "Shizukesa," "Yamato-Choshi," "Sogei No Kyoku," and "Mujusin-Kyoko" are soothing and refreshing glimpses into Japanese musical ...

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Unbridled (2006) more music like this

by Lantana

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Prayer (1999) more music like this

by Uttara-Kuru

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Shingetsu (1991) more music like this

by Tadashi Tajima

Shingetsu assembles eight solo performances spotlighting Tajima's prowess on the shakuhachi, the notched bamboo flute which is the key wind instrument in Japanese musical culture; contemplative and relaxing, the music is also a testament to Tajima's masterful phrasing, and ranks among his strongest work. Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide

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