Tokyo Correspondence

Notes from a writer beyond the headlines

Showing posts with label world music. Show all posts

Showing posts with label world music. Show all posts

Sunday, October 3, 2010

More Mother Earth Orchestra

Video/photos by Ryan Bruss. Mother Earth Orchestera Sept. 23, 2010 at Kuraki Noh Theater Isaku Kageyama taiko/cajon Winchester Nii Tete Afri...

Friday, September 24, 2010

MOTHER EARTH ORCHESTRA

from left to right Winchester Nii Tete, NATA, Cari and Isaku Kageyama. Mother Earth Orchestra brought together instruments from various cont...

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Isaku Kageyama's Mother Earth Orchestra

ISAKU KAGEYAMA and the MOTHER EARTH ORCHESTRA at Yokohama Kuraki Noh Theatre Taiko, African percussion, digeridoo and electric guitar cele...

Monday, August 23, 2010

Mother Earth Orchestra at Harajuku Crocodile Aug. 19, 2010

"Improvisation" Kazutoki Umezu (sax) NATA (digeridoo) Craig Harris (bass) Winchester Nii Tete (percussion) Isaku Kageyama (taiko a...

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Winchester Nii Tete and Isaku Kageyama

Winchester Nii Tete and Isaku Kageyama at Shinjuku Takanoya in Tokyo. Children of music. Music is power. Music is spirit.

Saturday, August 8, 2009

THE BEAT AHEAD

Isaku Kageyama of Amanojaku collaborates with Yuu Ishizuka formerly of Oedo Sukeroku in a rare concert that brings together differen...

View web version

About Me

Yuri Kageyama: Poet, writer in Tokyo. "The New and Selected Yuri _ Writing From Peeling till Now" Ishmael Reed Publishing Co. 2011. "Peeling" I. Reed Press. Poems, stories, essays in "Y'Bird" "Pow Wow: Charting the Fault Lines in the American Experience _ Short Fiction from Then to Now" "San Francisco Stories" "On a Bed of Rice" "Konch" "Breaking Silence" "Greenfield Review" "Beyond Rice" "River Styx" "Other Side River" "Yellow Silk" "Stories We Hold Secret" "MultiAmerica" and other publications. Read with Ishmael Reed, Shuntaro Tanikawa, Geraldine Kudaka, Victor Hernandez Cruz, Russel Baba, Seamus Heaney, Shozu Ben, Winchester Nii Tete, Eric Kamau Gravatt, Takenari Shibata, Toshinori Takimoto, Teruyuki and Haruna Kawabata, Keiji Kubo, Yumi Miyagishima, Carl Freire, Abel Coelho, Yuri Matsueda. "Talking TAIKO" a film by Yoshiaki Tago documents her poetry. "A Back Alley Asian American Love Story of Sorts" by Niccolo Caldararo of her story was shown at the San Francisco and New York Asian American film festivals, won awards at the 1986 Palo Alto Film Festival, 1987 Ann Arbor Film Festival, 1988 Onion City Film Festival. Magna cum laude Cornell University, M.A. the University of California Berkeley.

View my complete profile

Powered by Blogger.