Japanska Muzika

Takahashi Chikuzan
Tsugaru-Shamizen


Album : Tsugaru-Shamizen
Artist : Takahashi Chikuzan
Release date : 1996
Number of discs : 1
Genre : Traditional
Total Time : 00:51:53
Total size : 118 MB

Tracks :
1. Tsugaru-Shamisen Suits
2. Jonkara bushi
3. Tsugaru jonkara bushi (secondary)
4. Tsugaru jonkara bushi
5. Yasaburo bushi
6. Tsugaru sansagari
7. Tsugaru onto
8. Tsugaru yosare bushi (Original)
9. Tsugaru yosare bushi
10. Tsugaru Oharabushi (Original)
11. Tsugaru Oharabushi
12. Ayuga sawa jinku
13. Josanno yama
14. Ringo bushi
15. Tsugaru aiya bushi

@320 Kbit/s mp3

Tsugaru-jamisen (津軽三味線) is a genre of shamisen music originating in Aomori prefecture in the northernmost area of the Japanese island of Honshū. It is today performed throughout Japan, though associations with the Tsugaru area of Aomori remain strong.

The genre is played on a large shamisen with thicker strings than those used for most other styles. The bachi (plectrum) is proportionately small. Tsugaru-jamisen is easy to recognize by its percussive quality (the plectrum striking the body of the instrument on each stroke) and the lilt of the rhythms performed. Unlike most other Japanese music, some Tsugaru-jamisen pieces are in triple time, though the three beats are not accentuated in the manner of Western music.　A technique unique to the Tsugaru-jamisen style in recent years is the tremolo played with the back of the bachi without hitting the skin.　
Chikuzan Takahashi
Real Name: 高橋定蔵 (Takahashi Sadakura)
Profile: Blind Japanese tsugaru-jamisen player. Born June 1910; died February 5, 1998.
Largely responsible for the post-war boom in tsugaru-jamisen music. Before his death, he bequeathed his professional name to one of his female students who then became Takahashi Chikuzan II.

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Yoshida Kyodai - Move


Album : Move
Artist : Yoshida Kyodai
Release date : 2000
Number of discs : 1
Label : JVC Victor
Genre : Ethnic
Total Time : 00:50:18
Total size : 69,3 MB

Tracks :
1 Ayumi
2 Tenpuu
3 Tsugaru Yosarebushi
4 Tsugaru Oharabushi
5 Wakimizu
6 Ibuki
7 Koishi
8 Tsugaru Jongarabushi

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The Yoshida Kyo-dai (吉田兄弟) are Japanese musicians and have released several albums under the Domo label internationally as the Yoshida Brothers.
They are a pair of brothers and performers of the traditional Japanese music style of Tsugaru-jamisen which originated in northern Japan. They debuted in 1999 in Japan as a duo playing the shamisen and have since attracted an international audience.
Their music has been a fusion of the rapid and percussive Tsugaru-jamisen style along with Western and other regional musical influences. In addition to performing songs that are only on the shamisen, they also use modern instruments such as drums and synthesizers

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