V.A. “The Taiko”

Various Artists

The Taiko

Victor (Japan) 1981

SGS-24 (LP) Promotional copy. White label. w/obi.

sleeve : EX-(DJS, some light dirts.)

media : EX+/EX+(some slightly surface noises. still good condition.)

This is a taiko album released in 1981 from Victor's <Sound of Digital Superlatives> series, which uses digital recording technology to record in high sound quality performances of various Japanese instruments such as shakuhachi, koto, and flute. The album contains four pieces: A1, composed by Shigetoshi Fujisha, a kotsuzumi player of the Fujisha family who has passed down classical Japanese music from generation to generation; A2, composed by Masayoshi Sugiura, who has left many compositions for percussion instruments; B1, composed by Minoru Miki, a central figure in the Nippon Music Group; and B2, composed by Katsutoshi Nagasawa, also one of the founding members of the Nippon Music Group. All of them are wonderful compositions that have been sublimated to sound modern while maintaining a purely Japanese atmosphere. They evoke a breath of life, as if one were listening to the wind and birds singing in a forest.

A2: なゆた