Hirota, Joji / Japanese Taiko
Album: Japanese Taiko   Collection:World
Artist:Hirota, Joji   Added:Aug 2004
Label:Arc Music Inc.  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2004-09-13 Pull Date: 2004-11-14 Charts: Reggae/World
Week Ending: Nov 14 Nov 7 Oct 24 Oct 10 Oct 3 Sep 26 Sep 19
Airplays: 1 2 1 1 1 5 3

Recent Airplay
1. Jan 28, 2017: Music Casserole
Musashi Mai Uchi
4. May 08, 2010: Music Casserole
Hokkai 2
2. Dec 07, 2013: Music Casserole
Hokkai 2
5. May 08, 2009: The Professor Barnaby J. Finkerton Variety Hour -- Music of Classical Japan
Haru-Ichiban
3. Dec 31, 2011: Music Casserole
Harvest
6. Mar 06, 2006: banana in the middle 1.7
Suisei-Hanabi

Album Review
Decca
Reviewed 2004-09-08
The master of Japanese Taiko & 7 friends team up for a powerful, energetic, and dramatic release. All tracks arranged or composed by Hirota. The extensive notes provide fascinating information on Taiko, the various instruments involved in the music, and the individual songs. The tracks are uniformly good and feature driving beats, complex interplays between the instruments, tight arrangements, and serious power. Great stuff, every track.

*1. A good representative of the CD. Fast & tight.
2. Slower w/a sense of drama, picks up speed. Almost jazzy.
*3. Flutes, cymbals, drums knotted together. Fast, dramatic.
4. Starts simple, builds power, noise, and speed. Very cool.
*5. Spare & rhythmic at first, then driving & busy.
6. Tripping beats that fall into each other.
*7. Big & powerful beats that you can feel. Crank it up.
8. Slow opening that grows in speed and intensity.
9. Jingling bells, solo drum, delicate but powerful.
9/2004

Track Listing
1. Harvest   5. Hokkai 2
2. Pageant   6. Chido-Setsu
3. Haru-Ichiban   7. Suisei-Hanabi
4. Musashi Mai Uchi   8. Heart Beat
  9. Yuki Jizoh