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Tehran shows are beginning of a relationship: Japanese musician
TEHRAN, March 3 (MNA) -- Japanese musician Yasukazu Kano said that their Tehran performances are a beginning and an opening up for further friendship.
“We are talking through our musical instruments and we are here to make friends,” he told the Tehran Times on Monday.
Kano, accompanied by Haruhiko Saga and Ryutaro Kaneko, is performing Beat and Wind song from Japanasia in Tehran’s University of Art on Monday and Tuesday.
Sponsored by the Japan Foundation, the band began touring six Middle Eastern and African countries to echo the sound of traditional Japanese music.
“We have previously organized similar performances in Europe and now, we think it is time to expose these regions to Japanese culture as well,” the Japan Foundation official Koji Sato added.
He went on to say that there is a need to come to these countries and they have received urgent requests from local institutions and embassies to perform there.
However, Kano said that they are here in Tehran to make friend with the Iranian people and have found commonalities with people here.
This is the first time they have traveled to Iran and find the country totally different from what they have heard about it in the Japanese media.
“It is the country of Persia with very familiar traditions for Japanese and Japan is affected by their culture very much,” Kano mentioned.
Since he believes that music makes people alive, Kaneko said that the younger generation in Iran has a strong need of music.
On the website, they announced two days of performances at the University of Art’s Farabi Hall, which accommodates limited audiences. However, “musical exchange” is a part of the Japan Foundation.
Kano said that they are in Iran to meet musicians here and to find affinities between the two countries’ traditional music.
“We will be welcoming Iranian music in Japan later on and I consider these performances the beginning of a relationship,” he said.
The band will have a workshop for enthusiasts on Wednesday in which they will introduce Japanese musical instruments, hold a live Persian music concert and the co-performance of an Iranian and a Japanese ensemble at Farabi Hall.
“I express myself through music, so that I believe the essence of music is the same all over the world; that it originates from people’s hearts,” he said.
“Music has the power to make people love each other,” Kano said.
In the end, Saga said that he wished that more people had the chance to come to the concert.
The concert performances were built up with the rhythm of Ryutaro Kaneko’s Wadaiko (Japanese drums), the melodies of Yasukazu Kano’s Japanese bamboo flutes (Shinobue, Nohkan), and were enriched by Haruhiko Saga’s Morin Khuur (Mongolian Horse-head Fiddle) and Tovshuur.
Their brilliant performances drew the audience’s emotions, making them feel as if the Japanese band were speaking personally to them through their musical instruments.
“We are talking through our musical instruments and we are here to make friends,” he told the Tehran Times on Monday.
Kano, accompanied by Haruhiko Saga and Ryutaro Kaneko, is performing Beat and Wind song from Japanasia in Tehran’s University of Art on Monday and Tuesday.
Sponsored by the Japan Foundation, the band began touring six Middle Eastern and African countries to echo the sound of traditional Japanese music.
“We have previously organized similar performances in Europe and now, we think it is time to expose these regions to Japanese culture as well,” the Japan Foundation official Koji Sato added.
He went on to say that there is a need to come to these countries and they have received urgent requests from local institutions and embassies to perform there.
However, Kano said that they are here in Tehran to make friend with the Iranian people and have found commonalities with people here.
This is the first time they have traveled to Iran and find the country totally different from what they have heard about it in the Japanese media.
“It is the country of Persia with very familiar traditions for Japanese and Japan is affected by their culture very much,” Kano mentioned.
Since he believes that music makes people alive, Kaneko said that the younger generation in Iran has a strong need of music.
On the website, they announced two days of performances at the University of Art’s Farabi Hall, which accommodates limited audiences. However, “musical exchange” is a part of the Japan Foundation.
Kano said that they are in Iran to meet musicians here and to find affinities between the two countries’ traditional music.
“We will be welcoming Iranian music in Japan later on and I consider these performances the beginning of a relationship,” he said.
The band will have a workshop for enthusiasts on Wednesday in which they will introduce Japanese musical instruments, hold a live Persian music concert and the co-performance of an Iranian and a Japanese ensemble at Farabi Hall.
“I express myself through music, so that I believe the essence of music is the same all over the world; that it originates from people’s hearts,” he said.
“Music has the power to make people love each other,” Kano said.
In the end, Saga said that he wished that more people had the chance to come to the concert.
The concert performances were built up with the rhythm of Ryutaro Kaneko’s Wadaiko (Japanese drums), the melodies of Yasukazu Kano’s Japanese bamboo flutes (Shinobue, Nohkan), and were enriched by Haruhiko Saga’s Morin Khuur (Mongolian Horse-head Fiddle) and Tovshuur.
Their brilliant performances drew the audience’s emotions, making them feel as if the Japanese band were speaking personally to them through their musical instruments.
