Hiromitsu Agatsuma (上妻 宏光 Agatsuma Hiromitsu , born July 27, 1973) is a Japanese shamisen artist who plays the Tsugaru-jamisen , a larger shamisen with thicker strings than those used for most other styles. He was born in Hitachi , Ibaraki Prefecture .
11-552: Agatsuma may refer to: Hiromitsu Agatsuma ( 上妻 宏光 , born 1973) , Japanese shamisen player Haruka Agatsuma ( 我妻 悠香 , born 1994) , Japanese softball player Agatsuma District, Gunma , a district in Gunma Prefecture, Japan Agatsuma, Gunma , a town in Gunma Prefecture, Japan Agatsuma River , a river in Japan Agatsuma Entertainment ,
22-700: A Japanese toy/video game company Zenitsu Agatsuma , a character from the manga/anime series Kimetsu no Yaiba (Demon Slayer) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Agatsuma . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Agatsuma&oldid=1144866368 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Japanese-language surnames Hidden categories: Articles containing Japanese-language text Short description
33-627: A solo artist on over two dozen albums, and as a backing musician with Pat Metheny , Don Cherry , Jan Garbarek , Egberto Gismonti , Gato Barbieri , and Milton Nascimento . Vasconcelos was born in Recife , Brazil. Beginning from 1967 he joined many artists' works as a percussionist. Among his many collaborations, he contributed to four Jon Hassell albums from 1976 to 1980 (including Possible Musics by Brian Eno and Hassell), and later to several Pat Metheny Group works and Jan Garbarek concerts from early 1980s to early 1990s. In 1984 he appeared on
44-558: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Hiromitsu Agatsuma Agatsuma began studying the Tsugaru-jamisen at the age of six, and earned his first accolade - top prize at the 1988 All-Japan Tsugaru-jamisen Competition - at 14. This was followed in 1995 and 1996, by top honours at the Tsugaru-jamisen National Competition, said to be
55-729: The Pierre Favre album Singing Drums along with Paul Motian . He also appears on Arild Andersen 's album If You Look Far Enough with Ralph Towner . He formed a group named Codona with Don Cherry and Collin Walcott , which released three albums in 1978, 1980 and 1982. Between 1984 and 1989, he was the Honorary President of the first samba school in the UK, the London School of Samba. In 1981 he performed at
66-854: The Woodstock Jazz Festival , held in celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Creative Music Studio . In 1998, Vasconcelos contributed "Luz de Candeeiro" to the AIDS benefit compilation album Onda Sonora: Red Hot + Lisbon produced by the Red Hot Organization . Vasconcelos was awarded the Best Percussionist Of The Year by the Down Beat Critics Poll for seven consecutive years, from 1984 to 1990. He
77-690: The eponymous Agatsuma . This album, comprising five traditional pieces and five original ones, was named Traditional Japanese Music Album of the Year at the 16th Japan Gold Disc Awards . In BEAMS , his second album (released in July 2002), he recorded ten original works, taking the Tsugaru-jamisen in new directions. The same album was subsequently released in America by Domo Records in January 2003, upon which Agatsuma made his US debut. His five-concert tour of
88-545: The Tsugaru-jamisen." Media appearances include joint performances with artists from around the world; he was a guest at the Japan performances of Marcus Miller (Bass) and has performed with Larry Coryell (Guitar), Nana Vasconcelos (Percussion), Sarena Jones (Vocals) and others. Agatsuma's song Tsuki Sayu Yoru was included by Fitgirl Repacks as an installer tune for many pirated video games. The song gained significant popularity online, paticularly among pirates. In 2020,
99-415: The country's most prestigious. Despite the high acclaim he received in the hogaku , or traditional Japanese music world, for his accomplishments, Agatsuma did not rest on his laurels. He not only continued to explore the traditional aspects of his instrument, but also avidly experimented in fusing its sounds with diverse musical genres. In September 2001, he made his major label debut on Toshiba EMI with
110-420: The east coast - New York, Boston, Windsor, and Baltimore - was a huge success. In March 2003, Agatsuma released a traditional shamisen album, Classics (Agatsuma 3) , which includes tracks recorded live in a New York church. Currently he is broadening his field with over 100 annual concerts, sessions and media appearances both in Japan and overseas, while continuing to pursue "the traditions of and innovation in
121-422: The volume of YouTube comments on his music discussing Fitgirl was enough to cause Google's algorithm to erroneously consider her a "musical artist", and link from her knowledge base panel back to Agatsuma. Nana Vasconcelos Juvenal de Holanda Vasconcelos , known as Naná Vasconcelos (2 August 1944 – 9 March 2016), was a Brazilian percussionist , vocalist and berimbau player, notable for his work as
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