Tsugaru Shamisen

Tsugaru Shamisen Artist: Chikuzan Takahashi
Label: Jvc Victor
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 4988002359394
ASIN: B00001ZTY3


Release Date: 2003-09-30

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Tracks:

  1. Tracks In Japanese Characters

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars In the Mood For My Trip to Japan.......2001-07-05

I am about to visit Japan for three weeks, so wanted to get in the right mood. After reading about Chikuzan Takahashi in Alan Booth's book, LOOKING FOR THE LOST, I decided to order this recording. I'm happy I did. Although it took some time for my Western ears to get use to the sound of the shamisen (a 3-stringed banjo-like instrument) it soon had me fascinated. Takahashi produced complex, spellbinding magic with those three strings. He was a virtuoso of this instrument. I'm glad I opened my mind and ears to this strange and beautiful music!

5 out of 5 stars Great music!.......1999-09-20

Takahashi Chikuzan, the great player of the shamisen (a Japanese three-string banjo-like instrument) died last year, but his energetic, virtuosic music lives on. As a young man Chikuzan was a beggar, traveling the back roads of his home area (Tsugaru, the far north of Japan), but after the war he became something of a star, symbolizing Japanese folk music as a whole. This CD gives a fair sampling of Chikuzan's art. If you want to know more about the music get Gerald Groemer's new book, "The Spirit of Tsugaru," which even contains a translation of Chikuzan's autobiography.

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  2. Ondekoza ~ Ondekoza
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  6. Run An Puns ~ Les Clam's
  7. Swing All'italiana ~ Alberto Rabagliati
  8. La Voce Della Radio ~ Giorgio Consolini
  9. Mon Cerveau Dans Ma Bouche ~ Programme
  10. Soumbayo ~ Djip

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