FURUSATO (A Japanese Enka Song)

The most typical form of Japanese pop music for the last 100 years was, with uninterupted success, Enka. For proper musical ethnologists and watchmen of good taste, it is a pure horror, not even worth mentioning.

The typical Japanese way of singing, using a lot of vibrato and a strange mixture of Western and Japanese instruments are the ingredients of the unmistakeable sound. The texts cover the entire pallete of daily life: love, social comment ... Influences of Western music, (classical and popular forms with some echo of the first Western music in Japan, namely military music) are combined with Japanese folkmusic and are generally expressed through pentatonic melody.

Enka has produced a number of stars that are known only in Japan, Minami Haruo being the most famous. Hideo Murata was heard in many of Akira Kurosawas films, one of the most interesting singers is Kitajima Saburo

Category:

Music

Tags:

• enka
• japan
• japanese
• song
• traditional
• furusato

[wereseeker2007]

lip singer.

[wenarto]

its ok to lipsynch to my own voice :-)

[trickman8]

jero is betetr.

[wenarto]

of course he is...

[shimono1000]

A HAHAHA ! VERY NICE !

[caladwenaeariel]

funky sunglasses? :)

[AliensUFOsProof]

Ojouzu Desu Yo !!!

Arigatou Gozaimasu.

[kenitai007]

umai!

[ytsolarus]

@roygbiv330 I like the pentatonic melodies.

[mirabelutza]

yupyyyyyyyy..........sugoyyyyy­yyy

[roygbiv330]

you know so much about enka. tell the japanese cd/record company to stop selling strange enkas. i hate the pentatonic melodies.

[pikachujologs]

hehehe omoshiroi...megane mo omoshiroi...

[Ido013]

lol is good stuff, but yeah lip synching with yourself is kinda funny looking :D

[anmeyna]

woo very nice voice !!