Goze

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#21

OhMiGosh, that would be AHmazing! No hurry whatsoever. I will nag you about it in a month or so, lol. XOXO

#22

hi there
laptop back, i have 2 versions (different formats and subs) just figuring out a way to get it to you Lorraine

#23

Sorry, it took me a couple of days to catch this! OMG, you are a PRINCESS!! Do you have DropBox? You can put it in a folder and PM me the link.

#24

Hi all, in case it wasn’t posted before, this goze presentation shows actual video clips of goze performances, along with pictures, discussion, etc. My favorite is at 28:24, but there are clips at 10:16, 27:10, 28:05, 28:24, 29:58. Presentation is 56min long.

Also, here are old NHK recordings with more sound samples.





(this one has 5 clips)

#25

I recently purchased the CD (mastered on Oct-1999) “Goze Uta”. Here is more album info: http://www.offnote.org/SHOP/on-38.html . And another song to listen to: https://youtu.be/6gKs-Iq-yFw . According to Discogs, some tracks were recorded btw 1958-1976; and others were recorded by the Goson Bunko Collection, Nagaoka.

#26

Check out this link, Virginia.

It’s got some other Goze music files.

#27

Hey, you changed your profile picture Chris =). I saw that link when reading through this old thread. Great stuff. I am just adding more stuff as I find it, in case others haven’t seen it and would be interested.

#28

Oh heck, was it already posted?

Beg pardon. I stumbled on it on my own sometime ago.

And yes, I was slightly overdue for an update. Thanks for noticing.

#29

Chris, no need to apologize. Not sure who posted. But definitely worth re-posting that link anyways. =)

#30

You might want to check out Shinoda Masahiro’s 1977 movie Ballad of Orin.

#31

Oh and for the Chikuzan Takahashi admirers (like me) you may want to watch Shindo Kaneto’s 1977 “The life of Chikuzan”. Nice little dramatic insight into his early life. Also a nice introduction piece where he talks and plays.

#32

I’m blind, and I have no experience playing traditional Japanese instruments. The reason why I love traditional Japanese instruments was because I discovered biwa hoshi. When I discovered they were blind I thought “such a very fantastic thing!”. Then, I was introduced to koto music because of a friend of mine, who is blind, and plays koto. It was a very strange situation, because I felt like “resurrrection! :)”, when knowing there’s like a world of blindness in traditional Japanese music! For example, the inventor of juushichigen (Miyagi Michio) is blind! Virginia Chong made me watch a lecture by dr. Hirose Kojiro, who is blind, and he’s a researcher about goze. I suggest you to watch this, because I found it very very interesting. I think today’s blind traditional Japanese students/Teachers/players are very lucky!

#33

I must thank all blind people who play traditional Japanese stuff!

#34

Thanks for the movie suggestions, Neil! I will look for them, along with many hard to find movies. There is also a DVD documentary of goze, 1971 I think, but has to be purchased from Japan.

I have started reading Gerald Groemer’s Goze book and other articles he has published. They are dense and I’m slow reading through, but a lot of Japanese feudal history and many other topics are new to me so a reading curve. After, I will look for his book on The Spirit of Tsugaru and Chikuzan Takahashi’s autobiography.

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