Category Archives: 5 Sound. JuneJuly. 2010

Dave Carlson on making the Matsumoto Based Japan-o-files podcast

I was really excited when I heard that YoMoYaMa Magazine would be doing an issue devoted entirely to SOUND. Yes! All my life I’ve been fascinated with sound. I remember how, as a little kid, I used to love putting … Continue reading

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Nagano Summer Music Festivals

photos and write-ups by Whitney Conti Ueda Joint August 6,7,8: Ueda Castle, Ueda Sandwiched between the Ueda city outdoor skate park and Ueda Castles’ high stone walls, Ueda Joint combines earthtones with skateboards and psychedelic jazz with jam band rock. … Continue reading

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Young Love for the New and Old of Japanese Enka Music

It is hard to trace where my love for Japanese Enka first began. I can say that I grew up listening to it my whole life. My early childhood was spent living in Taiwan where Enka at the time was … Continue reading

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Summer Poetry: “Unfolding” by Justin K. Ellis

Hot summer comes now Like the night after the day Following warm spring. The trees swell with green And pile on the mountains Like the pregnant clouds That swim like fish the streams Of the wide and seamless sky. Soon … Continue reading

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Nagano’s Music Scene: Interview with Aya Hasegawa

It’s a Saturday night at Nagano City’s India Live the Sky.  The music between bands stops, and from behind the fog on stage steps a guitar-and-recorder welding 24-year old singer-songwriter named Aya Hasegawa.  Flanked by her lead guitarist, Shingo “Waku” … Continue reading

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