if you are not one of my music friends, feel free to ignore this post. I don’t mean for this blog to turn into me posting music that I like – that isn’t what it is about
HOWEVER-
I have finally found it. Japan has about 127.77 million people in it, and the vast majority of those people are listen to TERRIBLE POP music (there are plenty of excellent classical musicians. In fact we have classical musicians coming out our ears here). So… that is alot of people in need of musical redemption. But now, I have found her. If there was band that could make up for 127 million times worth of cookiecutter cadences, if there was ONE PERSON, it is Hiromi Uehara.
After I viewed these videos online I had to think for a second about whether I should pray for forgiveness.
One of the posts on the video said only this: “get surgery and reconstruct your entire body into the shape of a piano.”
^^^ my newly surgeried body
Hiromi… I love you <3
Now let me clarify in case you don’t understand. I write some funny things sometimes. This paragraph is not one of those times. I have some musical artists that I hold in high esteem. My reasons for respecting them so much are not petty reasons. They are reasons with high sustainability. As such I am not prepared to make off the cuff statements about new artists that I hear, especially when it puts the position of some of my most favored musicians into flux. Still, you should probably know that I am considering the possibility that this may be one of the greatest single musicians that I have ever heard in my life.
This evening I have started my considerings by spending 4 hours watching every video of her music on youtube. Next I will buy all of her albums. I narrowed it down to three songs, all of them blow my mind. Make sure to preview the first two for sure, although the third one definitely captures some of her most insane technical moments.
“Deep Into the Night” She just recently added the guitarist to her trio.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XoFZHzvEoQ&feature=related
This is her on the expanding my view of the Nord solo synth. Her compositional and improvisational technique are literally of the charts. She makes several audio allusions, one or two Japanese melodies, and most certainly “flight of the bumblebee” around 7:50.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00fKuTD52gQ
This is when she accepted the Japan Gold Disc Award. Uhhhhh……
“Against the great superiority of another there is no remedy but love” – Goethe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HcKrd3K8_A&feature=related
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