185: 古事記・花島
Presenting Kojiki, a new radio series on Asian indigenous, folk and street music, named after the ancient Japanese chronicle. While recording music has merely a hundred years of history, I believe songs travel, legends pass and art reincarnates. The past dictates the future and music is climacteric in the process.
For this first show I keep thinking about two things – Hana, the flower and Shima, the island. Both perfectly harmonized with two of my favorite genres: Javanese Gamelan and Okinawan Folk Music. This is the tale of an island full of beautiful singing and flowers. The sea and wind, sanshin and gambang, and the voice and people.
Listen on @wrir973 and wrir.org / 1pm-3 ET
Art: 近藤弘明 Komei Kondo – 華苑久遠 (1984) (幻華)
Show archive
Playlist
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Unknown, “街角のクンダン（太鼓）の独奏”
from ジャワのガムラン = Javanese Gamelan (ジョクジャカルタの音のバティック = Sonic Batik Of Yogyakarta)
Philips - 1978
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Unknown, “ガンバン（木琴）の独りげいこ”
from ジャワのガムラン = Javanese Gamelan (ジョクジャカルタの音のバティック = Sonic Batik Of Yogyakarta)
Philips - 1978
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Musicians of ISI Surakarta, “Variations on Munggang 'JI-NEM-MA'”
from Gamelan of Central Java - 16 Ancient and New Minimalism
YANTRA - 2013
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Musicians of Kraton Surakarta, “Srimpi Anglir Mendhung - Gd Kemanak (feat. Nyi Cendaniraras, Nyi Maduraras & Nyi Puspitoraras)”
YANTRA - 2015
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Miho Omasu, “アラグスクのうた（越城節）”
from All About Lily Chou-Chou Original Soundtracks "Arabesque"
Unlimited Records - 2001
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Eikichi Kazari & Umeno Tajima, “Yerabu Yuri No Hana”
from Folk Music of the Amami Islands, Japan
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings/Folkways Records - 2004
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Villagers Of Nesebu, “Hachigatsu Odori”
from Folk Music of the Amami Islands, Japan
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings/Folkways Records - 2004
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Unknown, “At The Seaside”
Akuphone - 2017
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Semar Pegulingan Binoh, “Sekar Gendot”
from THE WORLD ROOTS MUSIC LIBRARY: GAMELAN SEMAR PEGULINGAN OF BINOH
KING RECORDS - 2008