Best of

Artist: Kodo
Label: Sony
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 4988009273020
ASIN: B000025Y5L

Release Date: 2001-08-09

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Tracks:

Lion
Trodori
Yumi-Ga-Hama
Zoku
Kazauta
Monochrome
Yu-Karak II
Yatai-Bayashi

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

Not a musicologist.......2007-02-02

I'm not a musicologist, but like someone who visits an art museum, I know what I like. I was fascinated by the percussionists on the Mitsubishi commercials, and I called Mitsubishi to find out who they are. The company got so many phone calls, the switchboard people had the info on hand.

There's something about percussion that is both primitive and soulful. Sometimes, nothing else will satisfy. I recommend this CD, which is both primitive and modern, making the old sound new and the new sound like it is infused with history.

Best of Kodo CD.......2007-01-04

The music was great and just what I expected. There hasn't been a problem the CD.

good trumming.......2004-05-05

this is a beautiful trumming cd rigth now i whish i can have the vol 2 of the best of kodo but i have patience becouse i have the vol 1 this one is the first kodo cd and is good to begun from firts vol 1 that is for me the best trumming cd a ever have ben hear in the world music so any one that like trumm music i tell you please buy it and you will see the diference . good luck and have a good day, that it allways will be whit me whit this musik!!!

Poor Recording.......2002-09-13

The other review is correct about the dynamic range, but the actual problems go beyond that. The transfer is not smooth sounding. I think the recording perspective is often too distant and there is very little low frequency extension, and both of these factors make me reluctant to turn the volume up. Unfortunately, unless you want to gain ride, you must do this in order to hear the quiet parts. It is as though the recording engineer was just learning, or doesn't know any better. And let's not get into typical mastering and production problems. * I see the New York and New Jersey Taiko groups live once in awhile, and that's the way to do this genre, I think, even to a greater extent than with other kinds of music. Of course, Kodo's music and performance is far more advanced than Soh Daiko's...maybe Kodo's other recordings are better.

Fantastic Album.......2002-03-15

Kodo is simply the best at what they do. That's to say, Taiko with the emphasis on the music (especially drumming) and less on the festival aspect. It's true that the CD has a tremendous dynamic range, and that if you don't enjoy loud parts you'll be playing with the volume. This would be true if you bought a copy of Beethoven's Ninth, as well. Not all music is supposed to be the same volume all the time. In fact on this CD a number of tracks depend on them changing the volume of the drumbs by huge amounts.

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