Frontiers are actually the center of our world. The songs sung there help people living in urban communities to recall feelings that they had begun to forget, appealing to a primitive sensibility that humans have doubtless held since time immemorial.
Spirits that call to each other across national borders. Sensibilities that resonate in harmony with each other. It’s a great, wide world. But it’s also a small one.
Namgar performs the traditional songs of Lake Baikal – the world’s oldest lake – for contemporary audiences. Nanook sings the songs that hearten the people of the Arctic. And Mio Matsuda journeys through the “memories of songs” passed down through the generations in the Ogasawara Islands and other regions of Japan. Interspersed with interviews with the performers and videos and photographs from each area, Songs from Frontiers is a concert that will evoke thoughts of all four corners of the earth.