Geinoh Yamashirogumi
Geinoh Yamashirogumi (Japanese: 芸能山城組, Hepburn: Geinō Yamashirogumi) is a Japanese musical collective founded on January 19, 1974 by Tsutomu Ōhashi, consisting of hundreds of people from all walks of life: journalists, doctors, engineers, students, businessmen, etc.
They are known for both their faithful re-creations of folk music from around the world, as well as their fusion of various traditional musical styles with modern instrumentation and synthesizers. For example, in the 1980s, MIDI digital synthesizers could not handle the tuning systems of traditional gamelan music, so the group had to teach themselves how to program in order to modify their equipment. The album that followed, Ecophony Rinne (1986) was a new direction for the group: they had not previously incorporated computer-generated sounds into their work. The success of this album brought them to the attention of Katsuhiro Ōtomo, who commissioned them to create the soundtrack of Akira. The soundtrack is built on the concept of recurrent themes or "modules". Texturally, the soundtrack is a mix of digital synthesizers (Roland D-50 and Yamaha DX7-II, both of which could, by then, be tuned to the Pure-Minor, slendro, and pelog tuning scales), Indonesian chromatic percussion (jegog, etc.), traditional Japanese theatrical and spiritual music (Noh), European classical, and progressive rock.
Geinoh Yamashirogumi has reproduced over eighty different styles of traditional music and performances from around the world, but despite having performed internationally to a high degree of critical acclaim, they remain relatively unknown.
The group's name uses Ōhashi's pseudonym, Shoji Yamashiro, and translates roughly to "Performing Yamashiro Collective". Ōhashi took his inspiration from a postwar 1950s group of similar characters that lived as a commune.
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Tracklist: 少年達への地球讃歌 [Shonentachi E No Chikyusanka]
No. | Title | Runtime |
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アフリカ大地の歌 | ||
1 | キリエ | |
2 | ムカ・ナカヨンゴ | |
3 | 糸つむぎ唄 | |
4 | ヤンド | |
シルクロード・メドレー | ||
5 | エホバ我の力よ,我切に汝を愛しむ | |
6 | 馬乗りの歌 | |
7 | チンギス・ハン讃歌 | |
8 | 子守口説 | |
合唱組曲「小さな目」 | ||
9 | おうちの人 | |
10 | ふうりん | |
11 | べんとう | |
12 | くも | |
ヒット・ソング山城流 | ||
13 | 宇宙戦艦ヤマト | |
14 | 春一番 | |
15 | ガンダーラ (Gandara) | |
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16 | 「響」芸能山城組組歌 |