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Kenji Endo

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 テクノ全盛の78年ころから、テクノの影 響を受け、80年代はシンセとシーケンサー で作曲漬けになる。90年初めネイティブア メリカンの思想、自然観に染まっていた頃、 たまたま聴いたネイティブアメリカンフルー トの音に、電子楽器では出せない響きがある ことを知って衝撃を受ける。それ以来、前か ら興味のあった民族楽器の演奏を始める。主 に呼吸系--吹きもの--を中心にした演奏スタ゠¤ãƒ«ã‚’追求している。  現在は30種類以上の自作竹笛--古典地な㠁—å°ºå…«ã€æ¨ªç¬›ã€ãƒã‚¤ãƒ†ã‚£ãƒ–ãƒ•ãƒ«ãƒ¼ãƒˆã€è±†ç¬›ã€ç «¹ãƒ‡ã‚£ã‚¸ãƒ¥ãªã©--、自作竹打楽器--スリットド ラム、ウドゥ、カリンバ、竹ベース、ジェゴ グ、水琴竹など--を使った、ソロやユニット㠁ªã©ã§ã€å¤å…¸å°ºå…«ã‚„即興を中心に演奏活動し㠁¦ã„る。また、自作詩のソロ朗読、楽曲との㠂³ãƒ©ãƒœãƒ¬ãƒ¼ã‚·ãƒ§ãƒ³ãªã©ã€å£°ã¨è¨€è‘‰ã®æ–°å¢ƒåœ°ã‚’ç  ”究中。It undergoes influence by the techno sound from around 1978 and it begins composition with the synthesizer and the sequencer. It sympathized with the thought of the Native American in 1990 and it received an impact to the sound of the Native American flute which listened then. Since then, it began the performance of the folk musical instrument to have been interested in from before. In 1995, it boils out, it met and “HOCCHIKU” of WATAZUMIDO attracted by the attractiveness of “HOCCHIKU” (jinashi-syakuhachi) It becomes a pupil and it is learning classic syakuhachi music from the Hocchiku-master, Okuda Atsuya from 1996. At present, mainly in “HOCCHIKU”, it works in the performance. It is doing the musical instrument which used a bamboo flute, a native flute, a bamboo degeridoo, a slit-drum, a kalimba, bamboo for the others, too, by hand-made.ed=4&transitionStyle=a&showCaptions=1" width="445" height="230" name="slider" align="middle"/

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Member Since: 07/11/2007
Band Website: http://www.ch-you.ne.jp/users/ajari/
Influences: 海童道祖(Watazumido-so), Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, Jon Hassell, Mercan Dede, Kevin Locke, R.Carlos Nakai, Oki, Salif Keita, Youssou N'Dour, Bob Marley, Thelonious Monk, Mal Waldron, Jason Morrn, Jaco Pastorius, James Brown, Keith Jarrett, Bill Evans, Bugge Wessel Toft, Stine Nordenstam, Robert Fripp, Velvet Underground, The Doors, Brian Eno, David Sylvian, Mick Karn, Steve Jansen, Richard Barbieri, Kraftwerk, Debussy, Erik Satie, Ravel, Toru Takemitsu, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Haruomi Hosono, Yukihiro Takahashi
Sounds Like: 法竹(古典尺八) 竹ディジュ 竹打楽器 そ㠁®ä»–自作楽器 民族楽器 朗読
Record Label: AJARI RECORD
Type of Label: Indie

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