Albatross Japan
- July 5th, 2010
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ok, trying to get caught up. my new CD finally came back from the printer, and i got my first copies just before my 6/26 show with the Moools in Tokyo. That was a great one, with a packed house and so many old friends showed up as well. After my solo set, i sat in with the band, reprising the string arrangements i did for their new record Weather Sketch Modfied (as best i could without the help of 15 violins).
Then to Kyoto for a lovely intimate show with members of Soft, and then back out to the countryside to prepare for the Water & Light Project show. our days were spent rehearsing with all the various musicians, tweaking music to match video and vice-versa, and lots of bathing in hot springs in the shadow of Mt. Daisen. also killing bugs. avoid these:
むかで！
there was an attempt to stream the event here… didn’t seem to work too well but there are a few clips. i’ll put up my own soon.
tomorrow it’s off to Seattle for a friend’s wedding, and a show with the amazing John Atkins (764-HERO, Magic Magicians) on 7/13.
Brent Arnold is a cellist and composer with a wildly unorthodox approach, using amplification, guitar-like fingerpicking, electronics, and techniques from Arabic, Eastern, and African music.
He has worked with DJ/Rupture, Modest Mouse, Wayne Horvitz, Eyvind Kang, Sleater-Kinney, Death in Vegas, and Filastine.
He composed the cello music for Louis C.K.'s show Louie and numerous films and shorts.
Hello , Mr.Brent.
My name is Mayumi Okawa.
I had listened to your music in KYOTO(VIVA LA MUSICA) and YONAGO(SHOJI UEDA MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY).
That time , I felt a lot…!! but I couldon’t speak English. So , I report a letter to you.
The sound of your cello was … emotional , deep , bautiful …and too sad.
[Apples,blood]melody is conceived me such as the desert , gost town , HIROSHIMA , 9.11N.Y …like the loneliness stand alone in ther lost place.
I feel sympathy this emotion.
I was shaken from the depth of hert.
In YONAGO , on July 4.
I felt the bigger emotion exceeding the loneliness,when you and junior high school students orchestra’s play [Apples,blood].
Cello’s melody overlapped flute, oboe, trumpet, high drum,and pretty’s drum…soon vibration became like a flow of river,
it was already hadn’t sad music ,but called [hope ] like a bird which flutters to where , was echoed highly and expaned to the air in YONAGO night.
It was a thing, happened.
When the image of one bird flies a sand hill top to the wall of a building is projected (Daniel’s picture),
a girl (prett’s daughter=MAO) a word sad “…It is sad”.
And after that she hold in her mother.
It might , when the person feels solitude , and feels own powerlessness , they learns sadness.
It might , when the person meets the person , get to know tenderness , and stand up from sadness.
…I conceived of such a thing from your music.
Thank you at wonderful time ,Brent , Daniel , Soft , and more people and beautiful place , YONAGO.
I’m glad to meet you and your music.
thank you for reading.
from Mayumi Okawa(大河真弓)
Hello Mayumiさん！
it makes me happy to hear your kind words. thank you so much for listening! it was a great experience & i hope to come to Japan again next year. i’ll see you then!
please stay in touch!
all the best to you. よろしくおねがいします、
brent