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Kaoru Watanabe
Kaoru Watanabe is a Brooklyn based composer and musician, specializing on the Japanese taiko drum and shinobue flutes. He has spent decades artfully blending the sounds of Japanese instruments with those from around the world, collaborating with such artists as National Living Treasure Bando Tamasaburo, Jason Moran, So Percussion, Adam Rudolph, Kenny Endo, Stefon Harris, Kiyohiko Semba, Alicia Hall Moran, Tatsuya Nakatani, TaikOz, Yo Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble, Imani Uzuri, calligrapher Kakinuma Koji, visual artist Simone Leigh and has performed his compositions at such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum, Kabukiza, Minamiza, Blue Note NYC and has performed in all 47 prefectures in Japan
Strum
By 9 Horses
Label: Adhyâropa Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Strum; Americannia; Gasparilla; Rohri; Long Time Away; Jenny-Pop Nettle Eater; Just Don't Call It That; The House That Ate Myself.
American Railroad: A Musical Journey of Reclamation
Label: Nonesuch Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Invocation (Pura Fé Crescioni); Swannanoa Tunnel / Steel-Driving Man (Traditional, arr. Rhiannon Giddens); Rainy Day (Wu Man); Far Down Far (Maeve Gilchrist); Tamping Song (Haruka Fuji); Rela (Sandeep Das); Wihanblapi Mazachanku (Suzanne Kite); Have You Seen My Man/ (Cecile McLorin Salvant); Swannanoa Strings (Traditional, arr. Silkroad Ensemble); Milimo (Niwel Tsumbu); Fukagu Sanjurokkei (Kaoru Watanabe); Mahk Jchi (Pura Fé Crescioni); O Shout! (Mazz Swift).
Serpentine
Album: Timeless
By Adam Rudolph
Label: Meta Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 5:20
Go: Organic Orchestra & Brooklyn Raga Massive: Ragmala: A Garland of Ragas
by Angelo Leonardi
Questo magistrale doppio album di Adam Rudolph nasce dalla collaborazione tra la sua Go: Organic Orchestra e il collettivo Brooklyn Raga Massive. Venti appassionanti brani che realizzano il monumento finale (ma certo non conclusivo) della quarantennale attività del percussionista dedita all'incontro tra musiche afro-americane, africane e asiatiche. Anche se Rudolph è considerato uno dei maestri della ...
Néo
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2016
Track listing: Bloodlines; Dreams; Prism; Kagura Gurui (Duo); Chiru; Together Alone;
Iki; Kagura Gurui II; Shinobu; reverse; Kagura Gurui III; One.
Kaoru Watanabe: Néo
by James Nadal
Nostalgia, in Japanese, lightly translates into natsukashisa, a yearning for something from the past. American born, multi-instrumentalist Kaoru Watanabe has reverted to his ancestral Japan for inspiration on Néo, a synthesis of dignified taiko drumming with the jazz sensibility of improvisation. Prepared with a degree in jazz flute and saxophone performance, Watanabe spent a decade performing ...
