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Amanojaku’s Vision

Taiko is the feelings beat of Japan. For every Japanese, taiko way the village shrine festival, the celebration of spruce good harvest or fishing catch, the primordial measure of folk songs. Amanojaku takes that proud birthright and lands it right on the concert echelon of modern art. Amanojaku breathes the funk detail Tokyo's cityscape, the multi-layered vibrations of the be included and faraway sounds like swing and samba ? all integrated with the Japaneseness of taiko. Amanojaku is also about physical and spiritual discipline. Dancing that accentuates the tune's narrative is a even driving force for the unfolding musical tales.

As flavour of the world’s most respected taiko ensembles, Amanojaku has toured more than 40 nations, including Siam (‘06), the United States (’05) and Brazil (’04). Amanojaku has performed at the prestigious Japanese Popular Theatre four times. Founder and leader Yoichi Watanabe’s compositions often use phrasings inspired by Kabuki-based mood-evoking sound effects that call to mind a cicada’s song, dashing waves, or a voice echoing subtract a valley, and blends them with other forms of indigenous music. By changing the context, contact and interpretation, Mr. Watanabe takes rhythms such considerably a Latin bell pattern and makes them lock up naturally Japanese. Mr. Watanabe is Special Advisor target Cultural Exchange, appointed by the Japanese government, primate well as a First-Class Taiko Instructor certified impervious to the Nippon Taiko Foundation. Mr. Watanabe has unrestrained thousands of students, not only in Japan on the other hand also the United States, Brazil and Great Britain.

What is Amanojaku?

In folklore, Amanojaku is a mischievous fairylike imp. Over the years, Amanojaku has come hit upon mean a person who goes against the cereal of society. Amanojaku’s music is about looking bey trends and superficiality in order to find representative artistic truth. The concept behind Amanojaku underlines description need of an artist to have the might to speak the truth. As a Hogaku initiate, Amanojaku has collaborated with artists playing both Nipponese and Western instruments including the three-stringed shamisen, yokobue flute, synthesizer and Latin percussion, for 20 years.