英ロンドンを拠点に活動する日本人マルチ奏者、廣田丈自/Joji Hirotaがピーター・ガブリエル主宰レーベルReal Worldから発表した!(2012年作品)心に響く歌声と尺八、和太鼓の鼓動、パーカッション、美しいストリングス・・・日本が誇る"和"ールド・ミュージック!
廣田自身による心に響く歌声と尺八、和太鼓の鼓動、パーカッションに、ロンドン・メトロポリタン・オーケストラによる美しいストリングスと女児ハーモニーなどを取り入れた"和"を感じさせる楽曲を全9曲収録。「Esashi Oiwake(江差追分)」を始め、日本人なら誰でも知る「Komori Uta(子守歌)」は秀逸!
発売・販売元 提供資料(2016/09/23)
"Q (10/99, p.120) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...stunned by the dual blows of the deaths of his father and his drumming teacher last year...[His] response is to purge his feelings with this melancholy meditation, adding voice and shaku-hachi...to an already diverse soundstage..."
Rovi
Joji Hirota is a Japanese shakuhachi and percussion player. In The Gate, he presents with a group of his compositions plus his arrangements of some traditional Japanese folk songs. Three songs are sung by him and one by a young boy. There are three pieces for Japanese percussion. Right from the start, listening to the first piece, listeners will be enchanted by the sound of a string quintet and shakuhachi. Although the arrangements are Western in nature, the pace of Hirota's music has a typically Japanese character. There is a kind of calmness, meditative feeling in a way, found normally in traditional Japanese music, except of course for the percussion pieces that are characteristic of the verve of this type of music. Joji Hirota produces a most enchanting music, not in a negative sense of a cute music, but in the very positive sense of a deeply entrancing music. A must. ~ Bruno Deschenes
Rovi