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'UMASHIASHIKABI'
Singing is praying.
Everything starts from here.....
Debut album ‘Umashiashikabi’ by a Japanese singer, Suzue, who delivers the beauty of Kototama, spirits of the Japanese words.
‘Umashiashikabi’ is Yamato (Old Japanese) language, meaning beautiful buds of reed.
Like preciously sprouted reed in the chaotic world, her state-of-art work expresses her ingenious worldview with the sounds by beautifully collaborated western and eastern Gagaku instruments such as piano, violin, cello, Japanese taiko drums, ryuteki flute, and kagura bells.
After releasing this debut album, Suzue expanded her music activities from Japan to Asia, Europe, and North and South America.
Universal theme and messages in her music pull the heartstrings of numerous people across the boundaries.
Please enjoy this debut album along with the 2nd album, 'KONOHANASAKUYA'.
'Now, it is not too late. Please do not let go of my hand.
Now, it is not too late. Please do not turn away your eyes from me.'
'The Prayer of the Flowers'
Suzue Singer/ Song writer, Shinto priestess Shinto-Priestess (Ono Hachiman Shrine) Rev.Suzue was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 1978, and raised in Tokyo, Aomori and Kobe, Japan. In 2002, she released her first album,"Umashiashikabi", which received critical acclaim in the press. In January 2006, she moved to New York as a goodwill ambassador priestess to propagate Japanese Shinto culture. 2007, She held the recital in Carnegie Hall (NYC), The audience were standing ovation and admired. it proved that there is no border in her musicality. Her concert was successful also in Brazil, Russia, China and Thailand. She collaborated as a singer on the new album of the Grammy-nominated world-music group 1 Giant Leap, entitled " What About Me? ", which released worldwide in the summer of 2008. She released her 2nd album,"Konohanasakuya", in 2009. Inspired by her poetic interaction with mountains, rivers, flowers and trees, she sings about the relationship between nature and humans, as well as the inner dimensions of human nature, so as to kindle in the people of Japan and around the world a sense of awe and appreciation for life.
Studio Kotodama