Hiroyuki Koinuma
Yoh-Joh No Hibiki
Kojima Recordings Inc. (Japan) 1979
LM-1138 (LP) textured sleeve.
sleeve : EX-(some color-faded.)
media : VG/VG(light noise.)
After beginning his musical career as a recorder player, Hiroyuki Koinuma was drawn to the yokobue, a classical Japanese flute, and studied shinobue and nohkan under Fukuhara Hyakunosuke (now Takara Sanzaemon), the head of the Fukuhara School of Narimono, and went on to become a Japanese instrumentalist. This 1979 album captures his artistry, manufactured and recorded by Kojima Recording, with Yukio Kojima himself handling the engineering. The program includes a shinobue piece of unknown authorship said to have been handed down for centuries in the Kiso region of Nagano (A1), a traditional meriyasu tune once played in Edo-period kyōgen theater (A2), and a work for flute and biwa specially composed for this recording (A3) by Koji Bantani, a student of Olivier Messiaen known for his orchestral and operatic compositions. The B-side features a folk song from the remote mountains of Tokushima (B1), a reworking of a nō piece arranged for flute (B2), and a composition by Kengyō Yoshizawa, a great master of jun-sōkyoku(pure koto music) (B3).
The vinyl is very clean, but it comes background noise all times.
A1: 篠のねとり
A3: 笛と琵琶のための”行”
B2: 乱曲