Live Recording SessionLive Recording Session

LIVE: Seiichi Yamamoto (guitar), Miya Masaoka (koto, New York City), Yumiko Tanaka (shamisen/voice), Marcos Fernandes (percussion) in a live recording session!



Artist information:

Seiichi Yamamoto

Born in Amagasaki, Hyogo prefecture, 1958.
In the second half of the '80s, Yamamoto played guitar in Boredoms and formed the groups Omoide Hatoba and Rashimban. Since then he has been involved in a large number of projects and bands. From solo performances to collaborations with musicians from Japan and other countries, to film music, all the way to design, illustration, and writing, Yamamoto's activities are truly diverse.
Improvised Music from Japan / Seiichi Yamamoto

Miya Masaoka from NYC

Miya Masaoka, musician, composer, performance artist, has created works for koto, laserinterfaces, laptop and video and written scores for ensembles, chamber orchestras and mixed choirs. In her performance pieces she has investigated the sound and movement of insects, as well as the physiological responses of plants, the human brain, and her own body. Within these varied contexts of sound, music and nature, her performance work emphasizes the interactive, live nature of improvisation, and reflects an individual, contemporary expression of Japanese gagaku aural gesturalism.
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Yumiko Tanaka

Yumiko Tanaka was born in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture. While a student majoring in musicology at Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music, Tanaka was attracted to the timbre of the gidayu-shamisen (also known as the futozao, or thick-necked, shamisen), which accompanies gidayu-bushi in Bunraku, traditional Japanese puppet theater. In 1979 she began studying gidayu recitation with female gidayu recitation artist Komanosuke Takemoto (a Living National Treasure), and the following year became a Bunraku disciple of the late gidayu-shamisen master Kinshi Nozawa (who was also a Living National Treasure). Since her debut, Tanaka has been very active as a shamisen and vocal musician, not only in the world of traditional Japanese music, but also in contemporary music, free jazz, new music, dance, theater, etc.
Improvised Music from Japan / Yumiko Tanaka

Marcos Fernandes

Born in Yokohama, Japan, Marcos Fernandes has long been active in San Diego as performer, producer and curator. He has performed in Japan, Hong Kong, Mexico, Canada and the US as a solo improviser, phonographer and as percussionist/sound artist with various ensembles. Fernandes runs the artist-based independent label Accretions,home to some of today's more innovative experimentalists. He is a founding member of the Trummerflora collective, dedicated to creative music in Southern California. Fernandes' recordings have appeared on Accretions, Bake/Staalplaat, Circumvention, Pan Handler, Pax, Pfmentum, Phonography.org, Public Eyesore, Ribosome and Solitary B
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