BellTheCat Music presents MINYO STATION

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Member Since: 07/04/2008
Band Website: www.myspace.com/MATSUTOYOKAI213
Band Members: MINYO- Folk songs point to the musical singing passed down for many generations as universal songs. While Japan had been a maritime country, it was also an agricultural country centered on rice farming. In Japan, work songs have been the mainstream of folk songs. Their lyrics often started with a prayer for a good harvest and prosperity. Folk songs have breathed in the lives of people in a free environment, with no need for special protection for a long time.

Even in a narrow country such as Japan, from ancient times people have passed on many songs that were cherished in their local land and climate. The prayers of a true heart and old emotions have thus survived. Folk songs are a form of "encyclopedia" for understanding Japan, and one can think that singing folk songs contributes to bringing up Japanese people from childhood. A folk song is much the same as a natural and beautiful plant or flower that is not on public display or shown to an audience.
A folk song has been cultivated intently in a free space. Since it was born from a rhythmic sensibility in an intimate contact with nature, it is a free form of music quite irrespective of a particular style, climate, or mentality, but one can think of understanding Minyo as Japanese music, and there is an echo of that.
To recognize and believe in a susceptibility cherished by a certain climate of mind and environment, the rhythm that flows in one's soul is indispensable, and the strength of that will change music into "a free style."
------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------Another World for All of Us.. Minyo Unites Us... Another Level of Beauty in the Arts.
Minority Report , Billy Mitchell-Keys , Nori Iji-Bass , Yu Ooka-Guitar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn_IwcaFtzA

Miyuki Matsunaga Geta Dance * miyukiart.blogspot.com ,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTSur-cWnLk