Geinoh Yamashirogumi (japan) Eclectic World/ Avant

Fantastic music (and one I would like to suggest for Eclectic, but haven't thought it out totally).

Oserezan is a fanatastic Avantish album.







Edit: the third part is not showing up for me in an embed so if that's the case for you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAFyCXn0Ez0 Oh, now it is.





There are many more vids at youtube ( http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Geinoh+Yamashirogumi+&search_type=&aq=f )

From wikipedia:

Geinoh Yamashirogumi (Japanese: 芸能山城組, 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.

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The Geinoh Yamashirogumi Logo.

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, etc), 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".

It has been written that Ōhashi took his inspiration from a postwar
1950s group of similar characters that lived as a commune, but this
could be apocryphal.

• <span>1</span> <span>Discography</span>
  
  • <span>1.1</span> <span>Studio albums</span>
  • <span>1.2</span> <span>Soundtracks</span>
  • <span>1.3</span> <span>Live albums</span>
  • <span>1.4</span> <span>Compilations</span>
  
  
• <span>2</span> <span>External links</span>

• Osorezan / Do No Kenbai (1976)
• Reverberation Of Earth (1976)
• Yamato Gensho (1977)
• Ougonrin Sanyo (1978)
• Shonentachi Eno Chikyu Sanka (In Praise Of Earth‚ To Boys) (1979)
• Selections From Folk Music On Silkroad (1981)
• Selections From African Folk Music (1982)
• Ecophony Rinne (1986)
• Ecophony Gaia (1990)
• Exultant Pisces in Cantics Mostris (1992)

• Symphonic Suite AKIRA (1988)
• Akira: Original Soundtrack (1988)

• Geinoh Yamashirogumi Live (1978)

• Nyumon (1994)

• <span style="font-size: 0.95em; font-weight: bold;">(Japanese)</span> Geinoh Yamashirogumi's website