Silent Auction to Sponsor Tokyo Performance |
Silent Auction to Sponsor Tokyo Performance:Announcement (click for larger version)
We have almost 200 items so far, including nice Japanese porcelain "Arita yaki", "Kiyomizu yaki", art and photograp...
Posted by naga-uta on Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:41:00 PST |
Japanse Music for Winds (and 2 shamisen) |
You are invited this Thursday (May 29th, 08) to hear the TCC Symphonic Band perform Japanese Music for Winds (see clickable image below). The songs performed will be: Ito - On the MarchHoshina - Fu-...
Posted by naga-uta on Mon, 26 May 2008 08:12:00 PST |
Oi-Mawashi |
Here is a four minute recording of Oi-mawashi played twice around. On the first time through we play hon-de (part 1) in unison, and on the second run Sensei plays kae-de (part 2). Link to youtube post...
Posted by naga-uta on Wed, 21 May 2008 11:36:00 PST |
dandan (ni-gatus kara go-gatsu made)... |
Catching up again! I hope my last entry might explain the absent-minded "blogginess" here... which is practice, practice, practice... (not to mention some various opportunities to play those...
Posted by naga-uta on Tue, 13 May 2008 04:25:00 PST |
soy source shamisen photo |
Here's a photo that appeared in an article from the December 25th, 2007 local Japanese language paper, Soy Source.
My minimal understanding of Japanese translates this as follows, and I welcome...
Posted by naga-uta on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 06:47:00 PST |
the shamisen illustrated: kanji chart |
I'll have to re-do this, as the kanji is nearly unreadable, but this was my first attempt to locate the various kanji for the parts of the shamisen from the chart in my previous post. (Sadly, my ...
Posted by naga-uta on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 05:42:00 PST |
the shamisen illustrated |
There are no lack of drawings and photos describing the shamisen... but, here's one more... to have as reference on this naga-uta myspace..
I created this one for my original shamisen...
Posted by naga-uta on Sat, 24 Nov 2007 09:25:00 PST |
naga-uta on disc |
Since there seem to be few recordings readily available in the U.S. with little to no outside label information.... I'm adding a short list of the ones I have heard up to now that relate to Kabuk...
Posted by naga-uta on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:36:00 PST |
september to november... |
Two months since my attempted weekly entry in my shamisen blog! Please accept my many apologies, as I try to catch up on recent local shamisen events.
In personal music studies, I've spent the last t...
Posted by naga-uta on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 02:03:00 PST |
Miyako Fu-ryu |
The past couple of weeks I've begun practicing the full naga-uta number of Myikao Fu-ryu. As of this writing you can hear the latter, Novermber scene, of this number edited to follow the quiet Samidar...
Posted by naga-uta on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 12:14:00 PST |
