Japanese Music: Song of the Wind (Kaze no Uta)

Sawai Tadao composition for shakuhachi bamboo flute and koto, performed by Duo En at Simply Sawai Concert Series, Oct. 19th 2007, Seattle

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Sawai
• Tadao
• koto
• shakuhachi
• bamboo
• Japan
• Falconer
• acoustic
• duo
• en
• japanese

[kotoworld]

This piece can be heard on a just-released CD, "Spell of Spring: Selected works of Sawai Tadao". Available at cd baby, amazon, etc.

[LadySpitfire1]

does it really ,matter what race they are in the enjoyment of music?

[boycrazy255]

u dont make sence dude

[HokkaidoKID]

beautiful song, the koto intro melody is especially beautiful and heart-moving, nostalgic and natsukashii.. but this is performance does not nearly do it justice. 尺八 your sound is supposed to emulate the wind, not your body, oscillating like the wind is blowing you... lol

[arargami]

It has nothing to do with race, but they lack talent in this piece. I feel bad for those who had to sit through this performance.

[teknotoast]

@mrsoultwister Everything sounds mechanical. There's no organic... soul to the playing.

[elendless]

Lacks sumo guys shouting "YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!" j/k its great

[Prenty52]

I love hearing the koto but this particular piece is jusy s.h.i.t. and made worse by being recording with the treble settings set way too high. This sounds to me like a caucasian rendition of of a neo stylistic cover of a classic and it simply doesn't work. I have Falconers cd's and she is normally exceptional, if a little too 'commercial', and this isn't either.

[shebishobi]

only a native perform best on its traditional instrument and present a beter face of its culture

[chocopichim0m0]

ELIZABETH FALCONERRRRRRRRRRR!! <3

[mrsoultwister]

this song really lacks something, i can't tell what, but i hate it

[Hanami1023]

awsome