Modern Traditionalism
Posted By Traveler on 9. Januar 2012
Are you confused by the title of today’s blog? Believe me, I am, too. Anyway, a dear friend of mine brought my attention to this wonderful piece of modern Japanese music:
The Yoshida Brothers have managed to bring traditional Tsugaru-janinsen music into the 21st century and created very impressive pieces of music along the way. Who would have thought Shaminsen could be played this way.
For your information: Shaminsen is the name of the string instrument the brothers are playing.
And now I am going to see if there are any Morris Dancers on the ætherweb, dancing to modern music, or at least a modern version of their traditional tunes.
I am an anthropologist and in this capacity a minor scholar of the Cthulhu Mythos and H.P. Lovecraft. I am also quite obviously heavily into Steampunk and Dieselpunk and like travelling.
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