Yoshio Machida: Tender Blues - COMPACT DISCS

Yoshio Machida: Tender Blues - COMPACT DISCSTitle: Tender Blues Artist: Yoshio Machida Label: Amorfon Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 4562144180162 Genre: Rock Release Date: 2017 10 27 Number of Discs: 1 Meditative Ambient Blues. Japanese Steelpan player and composer Yoshio Machida's 11th solo album. 6 pieces by only metal slit drum, with theme "tenderness". Like his past solo Steelpan albums Naada (2006) and Steelpan Improvisation Series [i] and [ro] (2012, this album is pursued possibility

Title: Tender Blues
Artist: Yoshio Machida
Label: Amorfon
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 4562144180162
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 2017-10-27
Number of Discs: 1

Meditative Ambient Blues. Japanese Steelpan player and composer Yoshio Machida's 11th solo album. 6 pieces by only metal slit drum, with theme "tenderness". Like his past solo Steelpan albums Naada (2006) and Steelpan Improvisation Series [i] and [ro] (2012, this album is pursued possibility of music by metal sound that has rich overtones. Machida plays this metal slit drum with Steelpan or Galmelan instruments for solo concert and free improvisation with some musicians. Recently he plays this instrument for his new improvised performing project "Sound is Body, Body is Sound" with a dancer. This metal slit drum is made from a part of small gas tank in Japan. Scale C / 2 octaves. This music is influenced from Kora music of Mali, Valiha music of Madagascar, Shona's Mbira music of Zimbabwe, Gamelan of Bali/Java, Kulintang music of Philippines and traditional music of Myanmar. Slow swing rhythm, minimal, like Gamelan, sweet tones like Kalimba, it can be called meditative ambient "blues".

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