Gionshōja (Japanese Traditional Music - Biwa 4 )

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Japanese Traditional Music - Gionshōja

1 Haru No Utage 7:30
2 Chikuzen Shokyoku 8:00
3 Kawanakajima 15:28
4 Arsumori 18:43
5 Gionshoja 5:29
6 Gionshoja 7:44

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Release Date January 5, 1994
Duration 01:02:54
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"The liner notes (in Japanese and English) are by Hugh de Ferranti,
the author of a well-researched book on the "last" blind biwa player from the western island of Kyushu.
This album has six excerpts from two Kyushu schools of biwa performance that he identifies as Satsuma and Chikuzen,
by composers Tsuruta Kinshi (b. 1911), Uehara Mari (b. 1947), Enomoto Shisui (d. 1978), and Tateyama Kougo (d. 1989)."
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"This CD offers a collection of traditional Japanese pieces for the Biwa, the Japanese lute, which came to Japan from China at the end of the first millennium.
The Biwa and its playing remained pretty much the same as it was 800 to 1,000 years ago, while the Chinese Pi-pa, its ancestor, has changed quite considerably, becoming a more virtuosic instrument.
The instrument is unfortunately losing popularity in Japan among youngsters mainly because of the influence of Western music, as is the case in many Asian countries.
There are solo pieces (the first two pieces) as well as old epic stories and songs accompanied by the Biwa (the four others).
Three different schools of playing the Biwa are presented: the Satsuma-Biwa, the Chikuzen-Biwa, and Heike-Biwa.
The Biwa was originally played by blind monks, and the Heike-Biwa is the most popular."
Review by Bruno Deschênes
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