Tsugaru Shamisen played by Takatora Kawamoto. A scene from the film "Tengu", directed by Roger Walch. (Link to the movie: www.taoistmovies.com )
Dueling..Shamisen? Very cool. I like how some music will give you chills because it just sounds so good. Enjoy!
Available on Itunes (in cooperation with the Gregory Bros. and Soulspazm Digital): itunes.apple.com Couldn't help it. Another instant classic by the Gregory Brothers. The shamisen makes me do these. The shamisen is the name of the instrument I'm playing. It comes from Japan, has three strings and...
The Shamisen is a Japanese three-stringed musical instrument resembling a banjo with a long neck and three strings and a fretted fingerboard and a rectangular soundbox; played with a plectrum.
Now famous for their renditions of Lady GAGA songs on Japanese Shamisen, the Monsters of Shamisen play Beat it on the Shamisen. Filmed in Hokkaido at the Nitta Oyako school of Tsugaru Shamisen.
I filmed this the 06/2010 from the backstage in Japanese pavilion of Shanghaï's World Expo. This live was in the middle of a 1h30 multi-cultural show with lots of Japanese musicians, dancers, performers, cosplayers and models. Performance by Yukata Oyama www.soothe-music.com Video Damien Ratte da...
三味線featured here is Shamisen Player Kevin Kmetz who has played Profesionally with Jennifer Batten (Michael Jackson`s guitarist), Estradasphere, Fishtank Ensemble, God Of Shamisen, Monsters of Shamisen and Secret Chiefs 3 w/ Mr. Bungle musician Trey Spruance. The Tsugaru Shamisen was made famou...
There aren't too many options if you live outside of Japan and are looking to buy your own Tsugaru shamisen, but here's some guidance. You can get shamisen and other Japanese instruments and accessories from Chords Canada. They stock them in their Toronto warehouse and ship to most places around ...
shamisenofjapan.com - Doyou like tsugaru shamisen? You wanna play tsugaru shamisen? You wanna make your own tsugaru shamisen? You gotta get Shamisen of Japan! Go to shamisenofjapan.com Kevin Kmetz playing Tsugaru Jongara (or Jonkara depending where you're from) Bushi at the Cabrillo Art, Wine and...
Here's m' bro and I playing a very concise, abridged, one verse Orphan's Lament and then moving on to Rokudan, Yasaburo Bushi and finally, Kita no Hibiki all under four minutes and twenty seven seconds.
Monsters of Shamisen with Mike Penny, Masahiro Nitta, Kevin Kmetz a remarkable group that is taking japanese Tsugaru Shamisen into a new direction. This time they perform Irish music on shamisen.
Monsters of Shamisen the world`s most innovative Shamisen trio performing the famous Turkish march by mozart. Mike Penny, Masahiro Nitta and Kevin Kmetz. This is truly creates a new paradigm for the ancient japanese three stringed lute, not only combining it with western classical but also bringi...
A rather simple, but lively piece from the tsugaru region again, named Tsugaru Jinku or Dodarebachi. The intro sequence is another version of the famous jyongara bushi named Naka Bushi (middle or second song), which differ from the other jyongara pieces in rhythm and singing method. Also, I final...
Haven't covered a Gregory Brothers tune in a while, but I've always really liked this songification. Powerful but peaceful prose set to mighty moderate melodies by the one and only SchmoYOho. Tsugaru shamisen is a three-stringed fretless lute from northern Japan! I studied under Kevin Kmetz (Yout...
A song from northern Aomori province in japan played on Tsugaru shamisen, a bigger version of the soft three-stringed japanese lute, created in Aomori/Tsugaru region due to extreme cold This song is quite fun. It uses a sad tuning (sansagari, in video case D, G, C or Re Sol Do) with lots of not c...
Not really a Tsugaru song, but often peformed by tsugaru shamisen players due to high speed and a whole lot of Oshibachi (to press one string up and slide down to play the actual wanted string) With origins in Akita province, Aomori's southern neighbor, this song is really played on normal chuuza...
