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5 months ago
Redemption with the Guimbri
Vocal, Sintir : Toshi (a.k.a. Shima Gnawa)
Thank you Hassan Gadiri, thank you Amazigh Kateb, thank you Gnawa Diffusion, thank you Sukiyaki Meets t...
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11 months ago
Sweetness Comes with the Guimbri
For years I've been torn between the guimbri and the guitar. If I break a few guimbri rules, I can play my songs w/this beautiful instrument. Who n...
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1 year ago
Hendrix with the Guimbri
Amazigh KatebがWarでグナワ曲ではあまりないG音の位置を使って
いるのから勇気が出てこんなことを。I know this is NOT an authentic way of playing it, let alone a Gnawa song but I couldn't res... 10,958 views
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1 year ago
Toshi playing the Guimbri - Baniya
Uploaded this also for an old band mate. Singing an octave lower because I can only hit the high notes comfortably when the guembri is tuned to C.遠...
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1 year ago
Toshi playing the Guimbri - Fangore Fangore
Uploaded this for an old band mate. Singing an octave lower because I can only hit the high notes comfortably when the guembri is tuned to C.遠方の友人の...
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1 year ago
Toshi sings "Sweetness Comes" at Leyla, Okinawa City w/ Carlos Saldana, Feb.5, 2011
Song from the album "Nothing, Everything" by the firefly clan.
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Performed by: Carlo...
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1 year ago
Toshi sings "Cedar" at Leyla, Okinawa City w/ Carlos Saldana, Feb.5, 2011
Song from the album "Sun and Rain" by the firefly clan.
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Performed by: Carlos and his Aco...
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沖縄在住の音楽家。歌、ギター、ゲンブリ奏者。1973生まれ、東欧、アメリカ、イギリス、日本などで育つ。1994年にアメリブルースからインスパイアされた独創的な歌とギター、打楽器、ミニマルなドラムマシン、アナログ録音を融合したサウンド、the firefly clanを制作。
1997年以降は、インド、バングラデシュ、バリ島など世界各地を旅する中モロッコで出会ったグナワ音楽に深く傾倒し、その文化
2001年からは、個人でギターワークショップも行う。モザンビークや韓国などへも短い旅をし、2005年からは沖縄県在住。
2006年発売、安田寿之プロデュースコンピレーション「-MONOPHONIC-ENSEMBLE-」収録の「raindoc
現在は "toshi" として北谷町の Sunset Music School にてギター講師を勤めながら時には米軍基地内のイベント、県内各地でライブ活動。
他のアーティストのレコーディングやライブでのサポート演奏も積極的に行っており、最近は県内で活動しているシンガーソングライ
2010年10月からは、1996~2010年の作品を安田寿之が選曲/マスタリングした2枚のアルバム「Sun and Rain」,「Nothing, Everything」をiTunes Storeで発売中。
Born in 1973, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and vocalist, Toshi Hito Tsushima grew up in Romania, United States, Hungary, England, and Japan. From 1994, Toshi attended GIT, Musicians Institute in Hollywood, California.
After graduating GIT, Toshi started pursuing a style of music fusing blues-inspired guitar, world-beat percussions, minimalist electronic beats and analog recording equipment under the name "the firefly clan".
Returning to Japan in 1997, he traveled to India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and in Morrocco, he met with some Gnawa musicians and was heavily influenced by their music, culture, and the sintir (guembri) a 3 stringed bass lute that he acquired from Hassan Zoughari. He considers himself a lifelong student and of Gnawa music.
From 2001, he started to hold his own guitar workshops, traveled some more to Mozambique, Korea and then moved to Okinawa in 2005. In addition to teaching, he occasionally plays events on and off base in Okinawa.
In 2006, the song "raindoctor" received a lot of attention through a compilation album produced by Toshiyuki Yasuda titled "-MONOPHONIC ENSEMBLE-" and "the firefly clan" successfully performed in the event Sonarsound Tokyo of that same year.
In 2009, he has played guitar on the song, "After The Rain" in Okinawa-based singer-songwriter, Carlos J. Saldana's second album entitled "C'mon Feel The Groove".
In 2010, he has released a double-album collection of "the firefly clan" recordings from 1996 to 2010, "Sun and Rain" and "Nothing, Everything" on iTunes, compiled and mastered by musician Toshiyuki Yasuda, representative of Megadolly Label.