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the kasai osharaku preservation society and others - osharaku - em records - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: World - Misc

1. Takasago (Soudai Bushi)
2. Kisarazu (Soudai Bushi)
3. Shiramasu Konaya
4. Hosoda No Kawa
5. Nichirenki
6. Tekka Bushi
7. Nen-nen Komori

The fourth release in the EM Records/Riyo Mountains Japanese folk series - featuring legendary Osharaku masters, recorded in their homes, brilliantly capturing the casual warmth and vitality characteristic of the style.

Osharaku is a traditional Japanese form of musical entertainment, featuring mainly voice, shamisen and percussion, with a repertoire of folk and popular songs, performed by farmers and fishermen for local audiences.

Osharaku is unique in its use of shamisen, originally an “uptown” urban instrument, in a “downtown” non-urban setting.

Riyo Mountains are a Japanese folk song research team formed by Mood Yama and Takumi Saito. They are resident DJs at the renowned party ''Soi48'' at Be-Wave, Tokyo, featuring music from all over the world.

They produced the Japanese folk song mix-CD series entitled ''Riyo Mountains Mix'' and also direct the reissue series of Japanese folk music on EM Records, including the releases ''Yumi-kagura'', ''Sakai Ishinage Odori”, and ''Kizaki Ondo”. Riyo Mountains have appeared as DJs at many events/programs including NTS (London) and Japanese Bon-Odori traditional dance festivals. Their articles about Japanese folk music are now published serially in the Japanese web magazine “boid''.