"About break the bones of ribs, shamisen continue beating beating until the culmination of the" - Hiroyuki Kurosawa called the genius of the Tsugaru shamisen world. Kurosawa's coming Tatamikake in the attitude of the offensive, drummer Oma Giraud's original off course away of age as the parents and children take in the sperm game. Adamant to each other, as the Chochohasshi of Semegi each other sound soul (Otodama), deliver the dreams and vigor in the hearts of many people beyond the words and the border. In this key person interviews, I have you appeared in the Oma's and Kurosawa's Tsugaru shamisen and percussion unit of Tohoku departure, which celebrated its 10-year anniversary of formation "Tenchijin", charm with the installation from the history of up to unit formed, and further and will be held in November up to the participation in the "8th Shibuya Music Festival", we were told hot to two people. Through the sadness and suffering of the earthquake, what was the what exactly is born of two people Tohoku felt "the power of music."

Shock to the classic cafe Lion! And really is a gap in the Northeast Metropolitan.

Do you like _ fittingly Shibuya? Please tell me the Shibuya impression also.

Oma:Of course I like. 1973, shortly to Tokyo from Akita, came out in the contest of the lock at the Shinjuku Isetan. So in the wake of the runner-up, but I do my music life began, there was the debut office Udagawacho, ahead of Tokyu head office. Apparently Shinjuku I did not get used to scared, kind of feel the Shibuya is absolutely no. I walked well from the station to the office, but Toka Shibuya of city youth culture of the early 1970s, had such creative atmosphere drifts.

Kurosawa:I first came to Shibuya when I was in my early 20s. It was for the purpose of appearing at the NHK Hall's folk song festival, but I was shocked by the cultural shock of seeing people going along the street. Until then, I had never been out of Iwate, and even if I had a job in Tokyo, there were many places like downtown area such as Kokugikan (laughs). Now that there is a Tenchijin office in Shibuya, it has come a while, but new things such as Shibuya Hikarie have been born and I am surprised at the speed of passing information.

Oma:Shibuya the city, "Here, this the there was kana?" Each time you really come in or there is a discovery that. If you do not come for many months is the impression you are already changed. The office is so even that there was Udagawacho, but it was small there was disbanded concert of Off Course band "Janet" that was active before subscribe to Koen Dori theater "Shibuya Jean-Jean". From it, I I was born in the vicinity of Odate, Akita Prefecture, because Odate is a hometown of Hachiko, somehow, such as Akita and Shibuya are connected, I feel such a strange your edge.

Kurosawa:But the case of their own, because the world of play to create a rhythm while composed in Tsugaru shamisen, there is also a feeling that do not want to lose the country of taste. Originally shamisen, because the mountain is also a music that has been also born in a certain country river, I want to send it in a farm-fresh. At the same time's the extremes, but also have mission to be the world's new shamisen from Shibuya do unless we pioneered.

_ Shibuya Is there such as favorite hangout of the shop?

Oma:Each time Previously come to Shibuya, but had to go to Yamaha, was no longer Yamaha unfortunately. Because it was my music of like a place origin, it is very lonely.

Kurosawa:Yourself, you go to the well yakitori (laughs). Morimoto's well-established that both doing 50 to 40 years in the Dogenzaka alley. Because I do not put it in quite one person I trendy place, put in one person, that sitting in the office workers and the horizontal befriend drink together. Fine, in spite of the year I, because the old (laughs). Then, also go well Meikyoku Kissa Lion in the hundred hotels shop. When I entered here, I was really shocked. Because Lion is its founding in 1926. The is I died founder of HitoshiFutoshi monk that caused the Tsugaru shamisen you're doing, is 1928. At that time, speaking the only entertainment in the Northeast, in much female barnstormer to the Kadozuke tour blind called Goze (Goze) from Niigata, is really the gap between classic cafe. I wonder really was the same country (laughs).

Oma:Now, please take me.

Mr. Kurosawa is referred to as "received a culture shock", in front of the Dogenzaka-classic cafe Lion

Strike the shamisen at best, break the bones of ribs. The play was amazing.

I would like to heard the music _ of the story, but first, please tell me the chance I met the two of you.

Oma:2001 "by all means, because there are playing shamisen like to introduce to Giraud's" from the television Iwate producer to say, I was brought Kurosawa to the dressing room. I "Oh, hello. Nice to meet you," you do not know shamisen Toka at all like a feeling was that for you, but I recommended from the producer "I think maybe fit and Giraud's rock drum of".

Kurosawa:It is the next year.

Oma:Once you have a meeting together, did you session. It was the first time the shamisen, but after all because it is the Northeast people, Toka folk songs and your musical accompaniment in the was born and raised roots, because there was a Toka Kagura discomfort did not have at all. If anything, cartoon may have been in Mr. Kurosawa ....

Kurosawa:No (laughs). For the first time of rather than a sense of discomfort and tension in the session, how the kana if it should go yourself involved. Taiko is There are drum you are, melody instrument because it was only their own, what was your state to explore and wonder if I should be.

_ "Tenchijin" during the formation is said to have been three people, including a Japanese drum, but did you aim the music of any genre?

Oma:I and other Kurosawa, began with three people, including the Shinobu Osawa taiko player expecting a chemical reaction. Sure enough, one plus one is not'm 2, it came out a change of 4 Toka 5. However, shamisen, so would lose the sound pressure of the drum and the drum, and the other Mr. Kurosawa has hit hit outdone in the best pitching, is not playing the hit shamisen to perfection. Some time, about broke the bone of the ribs, I felt terrible for that play.

Kurosawa:Initially one song 5, 6 minutes, Toka 15 minutes If you find yourself, quite in the non-uniformity (laughs).

Oma:I mean jazz musicians like a improvisation of fighting back, it was often improvised music that can not again the same thing. When face-to-face, to concentrate as "good!", Was the feeling that we make the mode in it. Rock and folk songs, jazz, such as the music of the various elements to cross over, that if each can be fused .... I have always said, but the harmony of Japanese and Western, the roots are quite different, respectively. By each sound, it will occur each other Semegi of sound and sound. Our music is to build while looking forward to it, I think how the thing of how we convey an easy-to-understand it.

Kurosawa:But when the drum and the drum to the other party, would lose absolutely. So, asked to advice from a variety of musicians and engineers, we made a custom was 1 Ting there is only electric shamisen in Japan on their own. Or reportedly interesting in the how digital analog of the charm of the shamisen. Us brings out the goodness of the analog now that do, I want to to that way thing.

Even in the Islamic world is also in the English-speaking world ..., strength of Tenchijin the installation sound of soul

_ Domestic addition, I heard have been deployed aggressively live overseas, or the response is how?

Oma:Also off course era Have you try to expand overseas. Or made the English version, all done a few times over the next to or make an English album, but I went to a good place, still wonder if that wall of English proficiency. Kazumasa Oda, but I'm very English person Glib, but I think that there was a neck. Charm off course, because it was or voice or was the lyrics, it was not communicated well. However, that strength of Tenchijin is instrumental. Even in English-speaking countries, ... even in the Islamic world in Spain area. Or rather sound soul (Otodama), because we will tell by the sound. Also the possibility in France, in Germany, I felt even when I went to the United States.

Kurosawa:So, there are instrumental strengths. "We put out a CD, installation'm not selling" the country's to be or is said to be. But, from a visitor who came to live in or referred to as "those which you have forgotten something, over what was has been revived to lose." It I, I think that it is together Even foreigners not only surely Japanese. The sound that they had played, thinking audience is naturally, makes out the respective answer. "Because Raideen" of YMO was also music without words, I think that I think we were successful abroad.

Young people "folk want to hear", vaccinia is feeling back to the origin loses all

_ Tohoku Great East Japan Earthquake to come from two of you, but I think that it is memory that can not be forgotten, How do you feel the "power of music" after the earthquake?

Oma:Also referred to as "came to the live", immediately after the earthquake I could not go immediately. "I wonder what can be in music?" It was also the feeling of ask myself that, first eating, because it was thought that it would be prior to live. Even if we have done, because nothing had been thought that I think we can not.

Kurosawa:I agree. After yourself the earthquake, immediately went to the affected areas, anyway today than the music, I was thinking just that or be helped to do if tomorrow, the people who live. Let alone, to myself was also feeling because the job of "would not it if you are using electricity in music in a time like this," to use the electricity .... However, originally Tsugaru shamisen, the Spirit memorial service like a part I of the original. Deceased Spirit is always but we are said to paradise from going to Osorezan in the Northeast, there is a sense to hold a memorial service the people who died playing the shamisen. One day should not have to go to play with all your Spirit memorial service, that I think there was a.

Oma:That's true.

Kurosawa:When such, are invited "to have only one piano in the gymnasium of the shelter, because acoustic piano is the only music of morning radio gymnastics, want to come to play the shamisen if thats ok", full of white flowers the coffin is still going to have a place that looks like a temporary area of ​​the body that does not in time piled in the car, it was to play the shamisen. When everyone gathered in the shelter hear "I want to hear what?", I had also young people but I "Anyway, I want to hear the folk song". That there are no young people who have heard the folk song it is up to now. I hindsight, I think all lost all been reset, and I think I sprung the feeling like back to the kind of origin. The audience is about 300 people, with no microphone location, when I play the shamisen crying and frustrated by scars of the earthquake vividly, was helped at that time was the children of the elementary school. Children who heard the folk songs, with a box of Saran Wrap Toka box tissue, me clamoring to the mockery, such as if playing the shamisen. The people in the shelter saw it, I calmed down but the air and everyone laugh. By their own will be very help to the appearance, I felt keenly that it was good to come here. This is also I think that 's what one of the power of music.

State of the live of Tenchijin

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