Akemi
Iwase's newest release,
Ese
Momento ya Ventisquerdo/
Moment Drifting Time
newest
release:
Moment Drifting Time
Lotus
Garden
Embrace
Tokyo Tribe
The Little Ones' Future
Flowery Yamagata
Nagamochi-Uta (Wedding Song)
Forget Me Not, Mi Amor
Lotus
Garden
~ For My Ancestors and My Children"
The album of Japanese folk songs (Minyo) and Akemi's original songs; "Lotus
Garden," "Moon Blossom," and "Lemon" which Akemi
composed when she was 16 years old.
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1. Fisherman's Song [1.3M mp3 excerpt]
2. Lotus Garden
3. Lemon
4. Deep White Winter
5. Kiso
6. Hie-Millert's Pounding Song
7. Moon Blossoms
Embrace
The album of Japanese folk songs and Akemi's original songs, which makes
one feel being embraced by the deep warm blue in the evening. "They
Came in the Dark Night Sky" (a song of UFO) is used a TV documentary
program of Yamagata Broadcasting Company.
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1. Lullaby of Itsuki
2. They Came In the Dark Night Sky [1.8M mp3 excerpt]
3. Hot Spring Song of Kusatsu
4. In the Silence
5. Sado
6. Oh, Wind of Spring
7. Treasure of the Mountain
8. Surf Side
9. Otemoyan
10. Gypsy Man's Lullaby
Tokyo
Tribe:
Japanese Music for the Soul
The album of Japanese folk songs, including one original song, "Golden
Waves," which Akemi created with the motif of huge waves at Shakotan,
Hokkaido. All Minyo is uniquely arranged as a new type of Japanese soul
music, including Sanosa (Japanese Blues) and Rap style "AIZU."
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1. Hot spring Song of Kusatus
2. Yosakoi [1.4M mp3 excerpt]
3. Hie-Millet Pounding Song
4. Aizu
5. Snosa Blues
6. A Tale of Gion
7. Ringo Oiwake
8. Kushimoto-Song
9. Golden Wages
10. Fisherman's Song
single
CD:
The Little Ones' Future
In 2001, elementary school children were massacred in their school in
Itami City, Japan.
The
incident hit Iwase with tremendous impact. She wondered where kind and
generous Japanese spirits had gone, and she was anxious for the future
of Japanese children. The phrase "Aren't you concerned for today's
Japan?" stuck in her mind, and from this phrase she made this song,
an homage to those children who lost their lives.
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single
CD:
Flowery Yamagata
This song was created in a mountain lodge in the hollow of Rocky Mountain
in
8900ft above sea level. While Iwase has been performing as a professional
jazz and
rock musician, she has been willing to share the beauty of powerful
Japanese folk songs for over twenty years, creating her own style of Japanese
folk songs. This
song came out of her wish to let the Japanese people know Japanese folk
songs are something that can move and touch people anywhere in this world,
as rock and jazz can do.
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single
CD:
Wedding Song
A wedding song that expresses a mother's love to the daughter getting
married, inherited through generations in Japan. Iwase says that when
she sang this song for the first time, she burst into tears with spirits
of the mother sends out her cherished daughter pervaded in her heart.
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Wedding Song [1.1M mp3 excerpt]
Single
CD:
No
me Olvides, Mi Amor
The Japanese immigrant in north and south America has over hundred years
of history. Iwase wondered how they survive in unknown places with unaccustomed
habits and languages. She also feels pain as she thinks about the first
generation overcame harsh living conditions. This is an homage to the
Japanese Americans who have been proud of being the Japanese with thinking
of their mother land always where they had never been able to go back.
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No me Olvides, Mi Amor [1.1M mp3 excerpt]
