Yoshida Brothers, Vol. 2 [Enhanced]

Product Description
The Yoshida Brothers' star continues to rise with their highly anticipated album, Yoshida Brothers II. Mixing traditional Japanese music with Western influences, their brash, signature sound incorporates jazz-like improvisation, pop-rock sensibilities, and disparate global music idioms into their virtuoso shamisen mastery. The Brothers play the age-old Tsugaru shamisen - an instrument akin to a rustic three-string banjo. The framework of the Yoshida Brothers' art may be traditional, but its essence and spirit are revolutionary!

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Average customer rating: East Meets West Tsugaru Shamisen the way it's supposed to be Brilliant A new generation of music Very Unfortunate...

Yoshida Brothers, Vol. 2 Yoshida Brothers Manufacturer: Domo Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Japan | Far East & Asia | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music Similar Items: Yoshida Brothers III Eternal Songs Hishou Beyond ASIN: B0002RQ302 Release Date: 2004-09-14

Tracks:

1. Frontier
2. Gales of Wind (Hayate)
3. Mirage (Shinkiro)
4. Lullably of Takeda (Takeda no Komoriuta)
5. Kodo
6. Indigo
7. Kagero
8. Evening Calm (Yuunagi)
9. Nikata
10. Old/New - "Modern" Third Movement
11. Arigato
12. Kodo - Inside the Sun Remix

Album Description

The Yoshida Brothers' star continues to rise with their highly anticipated album, Yoshida Brothers II. Mixing traditional Japanese music with Western influences, their brash, signature sound incorporates jazz-like improvisation, pop-rock sensibilities, and disparate global music idioms into their virtuoso shamisen mastery. The Brothers play the age-old Tsugaru shamisen - an instrument akin to a rustic three-string banjo. The framework of the Yoshida Brothers' art may be traditional, but its essence and spirit are revolutionary!

Customer Reviews:

East Meets West.......2007-07-17

The Yoshida Brothers have brought something new to the world of music.
While the best known song on this CD is the theme for the illusive "WII" gaming system TV commercial, each and every song is a wonderful blend of traditional Japanese shamisan with a modern beat.
If you are a fan of Japanese music, this is a nice addition to your collection.

Tsugaru Shamisen the way it's supposed to be.......2007-04-07

*THIS* album defines tsugaru shamisen. If someone asks you about Japanese music and mentions the shamisen, give them this album, especially the track Kodo (and the remixed track). They capture the essence and vibrancy of tsugaru shamisen and take it to a modern level. They are great shamisen players in their own right, but the modern twist adds a great flavor to a Japanese (excuse me, Ainu or Tsugaru) musical style.

Brilliant.......2007-02-11

For those who are familiar with the sound and music of the Shamisen instrument, you will be blown away by this album if you enjoy giant leaps in musical creativity. Like playing rock and roll on a Harpsichord, these two brothers take their Shamisens, instruments created hundreds, if not, thousands of years ago, and play various genres of modern music with them. Some musical genres lend themselves better to the Shamisen than others but the experimentation is both appreciated and brilliant. The tract, "Kodo" is played with a Break Beat and is nothing short of genius. These two brothers have introduced the Shamisen to a whole new generation of young Japanese fans and I hope to the World. I can't wait to get to Japan to go to one of their concerts and hope I can see them even sooner in the States. Brilliant!

A new generation of music.......2005-03-06

Many have complained that this is not traditional music of this type. Yes, it is quite different because it is a blend with modern instruments and melodies that make it a project of our times today. I love the creative input into each of the tracts and the overall creativity of the artists. I would not call this new age music but post-modern music with a traditional "twist". The brothers are quite young, so be prepared to hear from them for many more years!

Very Unfortunate..........2004-10-03

I am a big fan of the shamisen, and picked up this CD assuming that, since I had heard so much about the Yoshida Brothers as virtuosos of their instrument, that it would be packed full of the breathtaking, high-speed music that is usually associated with Tsugaru-jamisen. (the type of shamisen the Yoshida's play)

Unfortunately, I was sorely disappointed. Kodo is really the only good track on the CD. The rest is over-processed, horrid new-age stuff. I find it very unfortunate, that for some reason the beauty of this very Japanese instrument has been presented in every way (an Arabian style track, a Spanish flamenco style track, a Chinese track) OTHER than it's original context. I just feel like if I wanted to listen to flamenco music, I would buy a flamenco CD, not a shamisen CD.

Other than that, the Yoshida's are very technically talented, something I have to admit.

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