Yoneyama Jinku
Yoneyama Jinku Composer:Unknown - TraditionalArrangement:Aki TakahashiPremiere Performance:September 29, 2007 - Saugetuck Centre for the Arts ...
Yoneyama Jinku Composer:Unknown - TraditionalArrangement:Aki TakahashiPremiere Performance:September 29, 2007 - Saugetuck Centre for the Arts ...
Composer:Yoshiji Nagatsu & Hachiro KadoiArrangement:Aki TakahashiPremiere Performance:March 24, 2018 ...
Composer:TraditionalArrangement:Arranged by Aki TakahashiPremiere Performance:March 21, 2018 Sado Okesa is a Japanese folk song that originated in Sado Island, Niigata Prefecture. ...
Arrangement:Traditional arranged by Aki TakahashiPremiere Performance:November 5,, 2016 This is a traditional folk song from Tottori prefecture, which was arranged for a collaboration with taiko, shinobue and kokyu artist Shogo Yoshii. ...
Date Composed:2017Arrangement:Traditional Aki TakahashiPremiere Performance:June 10, 2017 This is a traditional folk song which was arranged for a collaborative performance with New Orleans parade and roots band DRUMHAND. ...
Composer:Traditional (based on Owase Bushi)Arrangement:Taiko and choreography by Aki TakahashiPremiere Performance:November 18, 2018 Crackling fires are lit to welcome the convex moon. The eyes fall entranced as leaping flames consume the darkness. ...
Composer:Unkown - traditionalArrangement:Aki TakahashiPremiere Performance:November 22, 2013 - EnwaveTheatre This shamisen tune was originally a traditional folk song from Akita. It was appropriated by shamisen players for its complex nature which readily lent itself to an improvisational style with its intoxicating and driving rhythms. It has...
The Chichibu-Yatai-bayashi is instrumental music mainly played with taiko drums on dashi floats during the Chichibu-matsuri festival, a major annual festival held December 2-3 in Chichibu, Saitama. Yatai-bayashi is played inside the floats and cannot be seen from outside but plays an important role in...
Composer:Tatara TokiArrangement:Aki TakahashiPremiere Performance:October 13, 2006 - Al Green Theatre The fox is the god of the rice fields, who returns to the mountains to serve the gods in autumn. The fox god, known as a hunter of rodents, has long been an object of veneration...
Composer:Unknown - TraditionalArrangement:Aki TakahashiPremiere Performance:November 18, 2011 - Fleck Dance Theatre Mt. Iwaki is a symbol of Tsugaru, a city and region in northern Japan.There are many songs about this majestic mountain, a symmetrical volcano which rises from the plains at the base of the Tsugaru...