Yumiko Tanaka Recital 2024 ~ The Sound World of Gidayu Shamisen
Business Overview
This concert explores the unique acoustic world of the Gidayu-shamisen, its tone and musical appeal.
Performers: Tanaka Yumiko (Gidayu shamisen)
Guest: Uchihashi Kazuhisa (Guitar, Daxophone)
New Little One (Sugadairo (Piano), Hosoi Tokutaro (Guitar), Akimoto Osamu (Drums))
Adachi Kaede (DJ)
Program:
・ Fujikura Dai "Jiai (Charity/Gei)" for Gidayu shamisen (2024 Commissioned First Performance)
・ Takahashi Yuji "The Man Who Asks for Me" from Ryojin Hisho (1998) Singing and Playing the Shamisen
・ Ichinose Hibiki "The Clear One in the Heart" from Ryojin Hisho (2010) Singing and Playing the Shamisen
・ Complete Improvisation of the Shamisen with Uchihashi Kazuhisa (Guitar/Daxophone)
・Plays Thelonious Monk with New Little One
Before Start, Transition, After End: Listening Style DJ by Adachi Kaede "Listening to the Sound World"
- Period of Activity / Project
- Saturday, December 7, 2024
- Venues
- If it's sunny, throw beans in the sky (Shibuya Ward)
Profile
[Yumiko Tanaka]
She majored in musicology at the Tokyo University of the Arts and the Graduate School. He learned Gidayu-shamisen from Kinshi NOZAWA, the late Living National Treasure of Bunraku, and Gidayu-bushi from Komanosuke TAKEMOTO, a female Gidayu. 1990: Received the Minister of Education's Award for Fine Arts. In 2009, as Yumi TSURUSAWA, who was a master of the Showa period and the fourth Koshijidayu TAKEMOTO, became a member of Gidayu-bushi Preservation Society and was certified as an Important Intangible Cultural Property.
In order to bring the acoustic world of the Gidayu-shamisen to life in the same era, he performed and composed music in various music scenes in Japan and abroad, including improvisation, contemporary music, theater music, film music, and popular music, and engaged in a variety of expressive activities.