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Roving Ronin Report Presents Japanese Biwa Player

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Japanese Biwa Player playing "Dan-no-ura" a song about the last battle between the Heike and Genji clans.It's up for votes on Current TV: http://www.current.tv/watch/70... and Vote!!!!Dan-no-ura was the site of the last battle of the Gempei War in which the Heike clan was finally destroyed by the Genji clan.Centuries later, legends say a blind biwa player was tricked into playing for the restless spirits of the Heike. He barely escaped with his life paying the price of his ears being ripped off. This story is known as Hoichi the Earless and appears in the Kwaiden.Around the 4 minute mark, she starts shredding some wicked licks like a geisha Jimi Hendricks! I half-expected her to set her biwa on fire at the end. The accompanying thunderclaps were more than appropiate.The title music is by the exotic ones: http://www.myspace.com/exotico... The band cameo is a Japanese-based group - the Sushi Cabaret Club: http://www.myspace.com/thesush...

Channel: Travel & Events
Uploaded: June 28, 2007 at 10:40 am
Author: RoninDave

Length: 06:01
Rating: 4.71
Views: 38906

Tags: biwa  dan-no-ura  Dan-no-ura-BIWA  ghosts  heike-monogatari  japan  kwaidan  music  ROVING-RONIN  samurai  SAMURAI-DAVE  

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lypipheras (September 5, 2008 at 5:27 am)
wah...that was hardcore...creepy too...
Copernicussun (August 29, 2008 at 6:53 pm)
Spectacular performance. Glad you managed to capture something so powerful.
chunkeymunkeyfilms (August 24, 2008 at 3:38 am)
pssh i could do that shit
lulzbot (August 20, 2008 at 4:46 am)
That and I think the plectrum is a lot louder on the shamisen. It's because of the skin on the head of the instrument, it gives it a mellower tone.
JakubStoll (August 19, 2008 at 5:30 pm)
琵琶がトテモすごいと思いますね~。日本、愛してる。PS: Ten Američan na začátku je podle mě dost trapný. Ale co jiného čekat=)
RoninDave (August 15, 2008 at 11:58 pm)
I think the biwa has a deeper sound
faintwest (August 15, 2008 at 7:12 pm)
it jus廿sounds like shamisen
RyderLT (August 15, 2008 at 12:40 pm)
that samurai guy is with Masamune Date costume from Samurai Warriors NICE
nekovelo (August 15, 2008 at 11:18 am)
Anywhere I can get a MP3 of this!?
Seaoftea (August 15, 2008 at 9:33 am)
That was hardcore epic. I never knew the Japanese invented rock and roll.


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