Fluters of far East

hatao · Post by **hatao** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 11:36 pm

Hi,I am the Irish flute playing Japanese hatao,and
I recorded few sets with my flute mate Akio Kumamoto at
my house in 30 september 2007.

Sample downloads

[Reels] Sunny banks & Five mile chase　2:32
http://www.geocities.jp/six_holes_flute ... 01reel.mp3

[Marches] The boys of Belfast & Lord Mayo 2:27
http://www.geocities.jp/six_holes_flute ... 2march.mp3

[Polkas] Up And Away & The Merry Girl 3:35
http://www.geocities.jp/six_holes_flute ... 3polka.mp3

All 22 tracks 62MB 69:23
http://www.geocities.jp/six_holes_flute ... flute2.lzh

About us:
We live in Osaka and Kyoto area which are located in west of Japan.
We are both in our twenties,and have been playing Irish
music for about 4-6 years.
hatao is a professional player and studied with Eamonn Cotter,
Paul McGrattan,Harry Bladrey in the summer schools in Ireland.
Akio is a semi-professional and also have been to Ireland.

hatao's web site:
http://www.irishflute.info/

About the recording:
This project is a non-profit and just for our fun.
As a traditional session, we played with drinking beer and
recorded without any rehersal and over dubbing.
We used shure 58 and 57 microphones,and added reverb a bit.

About the tunes.
We selected our favourite repertory from Sligo and Roscommon area
and played in the way of what we think "Sligo and Roscommon style".
About the tune type,we selected not only reels and jigs,also recorded
hornpipe,fling,slide,march,polka,barndance as well because we love them!
We should have record slow air too !!

About the instlement:
　Akio Kumamoto：Patrick Olwell Keyless D flute、Shakuhachi(track05)
　hatao：Thomas Aebi 9key D flute

Track listing

01 [Reels] Boys of the Lough & The devils of Dublin 3:28
02 [Polka] Tripping to the well 2:50
03 [Reels] Tailor's Thimble & Red Haired Lass 2:24
04 [March] Around the Fairy Fort & Joe Bane's 4:08
05 [Polkas] Bally Desmond no1 & no2 2:17
06 [Jigs] Tommy Mulhaire's & O'Sullivan's 3:07
07 [Reels] Lucky in Love & London Lass 3:08
08 [Hornpipes] The Buck from the Mountain & Kitty's Wedding 3:08
09 [Reels] Colonel Rodger's fabourite & Bloom of youth 3:06
10 [Marches] The boys of Belfast & Lord Mayo 2:27
11 [Polkas] Up And Away & The Merry Girl 3:35
12 [Reels] Martin Wynne's 5:17
13 [Slides] Denis Murphy's & Cuil Aodha & Michael Russell's 4:04
14 [Reels] Sunny banks & Five mile chase 2:32
15 [Reels] Anything for john joe & Tom Wards Downfall 3:18
16 [Hornpipe&Fling] & McGivny's Fancy & Mrs Galvin's 4:14
17 [Reels] Paddy Lynn's Delite & The Master's Return 2:44
18 [Set dance] St.Patrick's day 2:42
19 [Reels] Stony Steps & John Carty's 2:58
20 [Hop Jigs] The Dusty Miller & The Foxhunt 2:03
21 [Hornpipes] The Glenbeigh & Chaffpool Post 3:24
22 [March] Leslies March 2:21

We hope you enjoy our music.

cocusflute · Post by **cocusflute** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 1:54 am

Great stuff here. Lovely playing with a great spirit running throughout. The spirit and the level of accomplishment is reminiscent of
the great concertina album made by Bernard O'Sullivan & Tommy McMahon, "Clare Concertinas," made twenty-five (?) years ago.
A more obvious comparison is "Doubled Barreled," a recent CD by John Skelton and Keiran O'Hare. Hatao's album strikes me as more spontaneous, recorded warts and all, which I find more appealing.
This is music played by two friends, with great rhythm and intensity, for the sake of the tunes rather than to show off flashy technique or to play past the comfort level.
I'd buy the CD if there was one - to have it offered here, for free, gives me hope.
Thank you Hatao, thanks a million.

cadancer · Post by **cadancer** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 4:27 am

Cool.

I listened to the reels. Very nice.

What is a "lzh" file? I downloaded it, but am not sure how to expand it.

...john

hatao · Post by **hatao** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 4:49 am

The lzh file is zipped mp3s.
You need a software to unzip it, but I don't exactry know
how to find the software in English.
Please check google as "unzip" to find it.

> cocusflute

Mine flute is cocus too!

Thank you very much for your comment.
I am so glad that you like our music.

I like John Skelton and Kieran O'Hare 's "double barrel"
but we recorded without any rehersal so our music is
more cluttered.But I love the relaxed session so much.

LorenzoFlute · Post by **LorenzoFlute** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 8:15 am

very nice thank you hatao

i think that if you add other instrument (i belive harp and flute is a great couple) it will sound even better

rama · Post by **rama** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 9:28 am

wow! thank you hatao very very very generous of you. i love the playing, spirited and alive! keep going strong!

Aanvil · Post by **Aanvil** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 6:32 pm

Very generous!

Great playing. You can just hear the fun!

Thank you Hatao-san!

TheSpoonMan · Post by **TheSpoonMan** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 7:23 pm

Excellent! I love waht you did with those marches; marches (and especially Lord Mayo) have been confusing me for a bit. Good lilt. AWesome.

crookedtune · Post by **crookedtune** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 6:54 am

Once in a while, these forums offer up a real treasure, and that's what keeps me coming back. We've struck gold in this thread!

Thanks for sharing this!

mukade · Post by **mukade** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 8:53 am

Nice playing.

You guys really should make a CD.

Mukade

gorjuswrex · Post by **gorjuswrex** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 8:55 am

Well played lads.

I looked at your website but most of your text comes up as boxes. Is it in Japanise?

I haven't downloaded the full 69min recording of all the tunes yet but I do plan to.

You might want to change the title of this thread for people like me who don't look at all threads but use the title to judge if it sounds like something worth looking at. I suggest the title should indicate that your samples are here. They are a bit of a hidden gem with the present title!

Do you play an other instruments or types of music?

Kevin

kumamo · Post by **kumamo** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 10:42 am

Thank you for all your comments.

gorjuswrex,
Yes, Hatao's website is in Japanese. :(
He plays many types of music on his wooden flute, such as baroque music.
I played shakuhachi for few years before taking up flute.
Thanks.

Akio

Cathy Wilde · Post by **Cathy Wilde** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 11:20 pm

Hatao and Akio,

ON YA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great stuff and great fun! Congratulations, and thank you so much!

P.S. to fellow Chiffers: I found a neat little freeware program called Zipeg that opened the .lzh archive just fine at http://www.zipeg.com/mac.index.html

There's also a link there for a Windows version.

Thanks again - I'm loving you guys!

Jon C. · Post by **Jon C.** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 11:33 pm

kumamo wrote:Thank you for all your comments.

gorjuswrex,
Yes, Hatao's website is in Japanese.
He plays many types of music on his wooden flute, such as baroque music.
I played shakuhachi for few years before taking up flute.
Thanks.

Akio

Welcome! (Nice hat!)
We don't need to read when we can look at the photos...
Nice flute spread!

Gostrangely · Post by **Gostrangely** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 1:49 am

I downloaded this last night and would just like to express my gratitude and admiration, what wonderful spirit and skill; certainly something for me to aspire too.
Paul

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