This Sunday, September 18th, our friend Koichi Yoshida and his band Yugao will play a final show at the legendary live music venue Zac Baran before embarking on their European tour. Kyoto’s most popular fusion band, Yugao's performances feature music for shakuhachi, piano, cello, and tabla across a range of classical, traditional and modern jazz genres. Every show is eclectic, … [Read more...]
Yugao & Masayoshi Okubo at Zac Baran
On the 17th of July I saw Yugao play a very fine concert with biwa and bass guitar player Masayoshi Okubo. Yugao of course already play an entrancing combination of classical, jazz, and traditional music on shakuhachi, piano, tabla and cello. With another player on board we were in for a very magical evening indeed! Here are some videos and images from a very memorable … [Read more...]
Kyoto Sounding Out ~ 京の音、世界の音
Our friend shakuhachi player, Koichi Yoshida, and his band Yugao have a show coming up on May 3rd with shamisen player Mika Shigemori and singer songwriter Fumiko Kojima. This is promises to be the real sound of Deep Kyoto! Koichi says, What would a "Kyoto sound" involve, aesthetically speaking? Certainly it would resonate with the austere, poignant sensibilities of … [Read more...]
Yugao in Concert – Two Upcoming Shows
UPDATE: I'm not sure how I managed to mess this up, but if you read this month's Kyoto Visitor's Guide you will find that though the order of events and the days are correct, the dates are reversed. Please note the corrected dates below!! And my apologies to all concerned for the confusion! If you missed Yoshida Koichi's performance at the "Voices for Umekoji" event last … [Read more...]
Pictures from “Voices for Umekoji”
One Night of Musical Protest Against the Kyoto Aquarium Good crowd, good setting, and some great performers. And a good feeling of being among old and new friends. Very heartening to see this kind of concern being shown by Kyoto residents, especially gaijin. - Ken Rodgers I wrote briefly about the event last week but it's time for a more thorough report. For those … [Read more...]
