Kyzyl Tokyo Front Cover

Lyric

Whistle

Ryohei Terada

風の唄記憶して 朝もやを駆けてゆく

よろけては起き上がり 蜃気楼こえてゆく

森の主(ぬし)出会ったら この唄は贈り物

真夜中に満たされる 柔らかなこの音色

けものみち迷いこみ 冷めた茶を飲み干して

噴き出た汗を拭い ぼろの靴踏みしめて

泥の中手探りで ぬかるんだ轍さえ

わかれめ 境界をまたいでく にごる月目印に

口笛を鳴らしたら 松の実を噛み砕き

ひび割れた蹄(ひづめ )から あのリズム刻み出す

かじかんだ指先に 硬い弓押し付けて

閉じ込めていた言葉 この唄にのせてゆく

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    Ryohei Terada

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    Ryohei Terada

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  • 1

    Melody

    Ryohei Terada

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    Whistle

    Ryohei Terada

  • 3

    Kumosuke song

    Ryohei Terada

  • 4

    Throat singing solo

    Ryohei Terada

  • 5

    Odugen taiga (with strings ver.)

    Ryohei Terada

  • 6

    The wind carries my song

    Ryohei Terada

  • 7

    Igil improvisation

    Ryohei Terada

  • 8

    Key

    Ryohei Terada

  • 9

    Chiraa khoor (with bansuri ver.)

    Ryohei Terada

  • 10

    Khomus

    Ryohei Terada

  • 11

    The echoing tune

    Ryohei Terada

  • 12

    Footmark

    Ryohei Terada

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    Until daybreak

    Ryohei Terada

This is the first solo album by Ryohei Terada, a musician from Japan, trained in Tuvan traditional music and throat singing. Since 2010, he has been practising the traditional music and throat singing of Tuva while staying in Kyzyl, the capital city of Tuva, for around three months every year. He has developed his own unique world of lyrics and sound in traditional Tuvan music and Japanese folk songs. The result is an ambitious work that crosses over traditional Tuvan music, including throat singing, and pop music. This is an "old and new" musical work produced in Tokyo by a Japanese musician who was fascinated by the Siberian musical world, joined by splendid musicians whom he have performed with in Tokyo.

Most of the songs are original compositions written by Ryohei himself, but the album contains a variety of music ranging from pop and rock music to authentic Tuvan traditional music. He has also ambitiously ventured into the world of poetry, writing songs with Japanese lyrics based on traditional Tuvan songs and lyrics in the style of Tuvan rhymed poetry.

Guest musicians include Christopher Hardy (percussion), Falcon (guitar), Tanehiko Sekijima and Emy Sakai (violin and other string instruments), Hiroo Miyasaka (contrabass), Yuki Sugahara (cello), and  Taro Terahara (bansuri, North Indian classical music). The sound of the album is supported by Manao Doi, who has a long career as a music producer and arranger active at the forefront, and has also done a lot of engineering work for world music productions, including mixing, mastering, and other directions.

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  • Ryohei Terada

    Ryohei Terada is a musician from Japan, trained in Tuvan music and throat singing. Since 2010, he has been practicing the traditional music and throat singing of Tuva while staying in the area regularly. His musical activities range from Tuvan traditional music to his own compositions and arranged compositions of Japanese traditional songs. Ryohei is working to develop his own music as a Japanese musician, whose musical basis is in Tuvan music. He plays traditional Tuvan instruments such as igil, doshipulur, mouth harp, as well as guitar. His teacher is one of the leading Tuvan musicians, Möngün Ool Ondar. Ryohei is a foreign performer who has learned the Tuvan language, is deeply accepted by the local musical community, and has been collecting and translating local traditional songs. He has also produced concerts and events in Japan related to Central Asia and Siberia, and was honored as a Tuvan cultural ambassador by the government of the Republic of Tuva in 2017.

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