Tuva born musician Sainkho Namtchylak performs at the first "Green Flag - Erdos Grassland Rock Music Festival" near ... and the Japanese koto playing heard in the pieces of the international ...

The last 10 years or so have been boom times for catching up with Laraaji's extraordinary new age/ambient music. Several labels ... you need it in your life. “Koto (Glimpse)” is a mere 1: ...

Gabriel Ralls now heads Koto Kill which is a project that focuses on collaborations between musicians from different bands as whilst simultaneously blending industrial rock and dance in keeping ...

It's hard to think of a western equivalent for the transformation that Michiyo Yagi has wrought on the koto. The Japanese zither is normally synonymous with sedate plink-plonking, but in Yagi's ...

The koto sounds come from Michiyo Yagi, a koto player, improviser and composer. Her music spans genres and is impossible to define. She has incredible breadth, perhaps unparalleled in the koto or ...

In addition to composing and performing music for the koto, he is an avid teacher seeking to boost the dwindling number of koto players. During the cherry blossom season, the song “Sakura ...

While much postwar koto music was composed by the performers themselves or composers trained in classical hogaku, many Western-trained Japanese composers, enchanted by the possibilities of the ...

Koto is ancient: it was first introduced in the 7th-8th centuries and began to spread widely in the 16th century. The most famous music for the koto was written by a blind 17th century musician from ...