DAN NO URA

This digital single was released as a joint session by a French avantgarde superieur POIL and a Japanese singer / biwa player Junko UEDA. "Dan No Ura" is pretty renowned in Japan as a historical place where was a big and important battle in 1185, and there are lots of dramas or songs memorialized for the historical fact. According to their words, this composition is based on this traditional epic singing accompanied by the satsuma-biwa and Buddhist Shomyo chant, and the fantastic unit POIL UEDA beautifully and vividly express the heroic and tragic situation. POIL's play is quirky but thrilling and enthusiastic as well, as if we were looking through the battle there. Junko's voices are very energetic and serious like Japanese noh play. Such an impressive unification of an avantgarde rock and a Japanese traditional instrument with traditional voices completely catches minds of non-art progressive rock fans sincerely.

Anyway I guess this kind of Japanese-flavoured music would be appreciated by lots of people all over the world except Japan, where not many guys can get fond of such a mystic song.

Interesting one.