*ONDEKOZA-2* Japanese Victor Import LP NM Audiophile Vinyl Superb Taiko Drumming

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EVERYTHING'S EVENTUAL VINYL

JAPANESE 'VICTOR' RECORDS PRESSING

 1978 LP 

**ONDEKOZA-2**

Includes Original Insert Booklet

**SUPERB TAIKO DRUMMERS**

"Near Mint Audiophile Pressing!"

Japan's Demon Drummers, Ondekoza are set to bring these now legendary drummers to an even greater worldwide audience.

Ondekoza are in the words of their founder Tagayasu Den, a group "in search of the generative power and the orgin of the Japanese people." The drum is one of the most primitive instruments which can provide straightforward emotions such as joy, hate, anger and harmony. To this end, Ondekoza lead a communual life, aiming for harmony and physical fitness. Through their sound they hope to evoke these emotions within the listener.

Ondekoza were formed in 1969 on Sado Island by Tagayasu Den. Young men and women, until then unassociated with Japanese traditional performing arts, underwent vigorous physical training of marathon and technical training of the

Japanese Giant drums in communual life on the island. In 1975, the group made a spectacular debut in the US as all members ran and crossed the line of the Boston Marathon and immediately ran up to the stage to perform. Since then, like a typhoon they have created a storm wherever they have performed in the world, throgh their powerful and breathtaking music.

The unique idea of indivisibility between 'running and musical performance' was demonstrated by their unprecedented Around the US Marathon Concert Tour. Starting with a Carnegie Hall concert appearance in New York on November 12th, 1990 and closing with a concert at the same hall on December 3rd 1993. Ondekoza had run a total of 14,910 km and performed 355 concerts, during a 1, 071 day tour of the entire United States.

Every one of the 15 or so members of Ondekoza, run 30-40km a day, because the drums require both physical as well as mental strength. There is no teacher, so each new member must acquire the skills and expressions of the drum by his or her own.

By driving one's body and mind to the limit of complete detachment through such enormous physical and mental exercise, the troupe can claim to find the spirit of the Japanese traditional performing arts. With Fujiyama, Japan's most famous backdrop, perhaps you too can discover that essence of the Japanese spirit.

Part of a larger movement to rediscover Japanese folk art, Tagayasu brought together a group of young men and women to Sado Island to study and live. Largely without formal musical training, the original members lived communally in an old school house while studying taiko, shamisen, koto, minyo (folk music), and traditional dance. The lifestyle was austere and rigorous with most days beginning with a run before breakfast and filled with study and practice.

One of the keys to the groups success was the arrangement of traditional melodies and styles into stylized, artistic musical pieces. Examples of these are their songs yatai-bayashi, based on the Chichibu festival and hachijo and miyakebased on the drum patterns from Hachijo Island and Miyake Island. Also groundbreaking was the Odaiko (Large Drum)solo, a musical piece focused largely on one performer with only minimal background drumming and percussion. Den Tagayasu and Ondekoza's arrangements of these pieces, and their associated playing styles, have been popularized by their widespread use by other taiko groups throughout Japan and the United States.

Track List

Monochrome

Yumigahama

Futozao

Mikuni Gensokyoku

***VICTOR RECORDS***

KVX-1038

Tracks Include : See above

CONDITION

Jacket: VG+ (light edge wear light stains to rear)

Vinyl:   NM (Clean Vinyl, Plays Superbly!!)

****ONDEKOZA-2****

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