(CPV) -The popular Japanese band “Kuricorder Quartet” will give free concerts in Hanoi at the Voice of Vietnam Theatre on November 1 and at the courtyard of the Japan Foundation on November 2.
The program is held by the Japan Foundation Centre for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam, in celebration of the Japan – Vietnam Friendship Year 2013.
Kuricorder Quartet is a polyphonic multi-instrumental ensemble formed in 1994 by four Japanese virtuosos Masaki Kurihara, Yoshiyuki Kawaguchi, Kenji Kondo and Takero Sekizawa, who are all composers or arrangers as well as masters of a variety of musical instruments.
The music of Kuricorder Quarter is, according to Paul Fisher, the founder of Far Side Music in London, “delightfully unclassifiable, encompassing jazz, folk, blues, classical, medieval, funk among others”, it is a “rich, warm, polyphonic tapestry of sound”.
Their instruments come in a wide variety, ranging from the small soprano, to the giant great bass, via alto and tenor, and the ukulele. The band is also unique in their attempts to create innovative music from simple combinations of such musical instruments.
They have become known in Japan to a wider public through their musical contributions to visual works such as NHK’s TV program “Pythagora-Switch”, the animation film “La Maison en Petits Cubes” which won an Academy Award for Animated Short Film in 2009, and collaborations with a variety of famous Japanese singers./.
Đăng ký: VietNam News