ISO: music inspired by traditional Japanese music

I am looking for a quality in music that is taken from traditional japanese music. By "traditional" I mean stuff with plucky guitar sounds and a woman going "wooyyyy" kind of like in Blade Runner.

Let's have some suggestions.

This album [ http://www.amazon.com/Pipa-Images-Lin-Hai/dp/B0000AKMXN ] and check out some music made with the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipa

Also check out this which I just found:

http://www.amazon.com/Chinese-Traditional-Contemporary-Music-Man/dp/B00003INIS

Joshier - you're floating on my wave length. Thanks for the recommendations.

Ghost in the shell OST [from the film]

http://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Shell-Original-Soundtrack-Anime/dp/B0000076D8

ghost in the shell ost - own it but yes this is definitely in the same ballpark in terms of sound. Need those female vocals.

  On 7/29/2009 at 11:39 PM, Mr Salads said:

ghost in the shell ost - own it but yes this is definitely in the same ballpark in terms of sound. Need those female vocals.

Oh, is this to sample from or just to listen to? I know some very good VST's for choirs if you need some.

+1 for Ghost in the Shell OST and I'll raise you the Akira OST, although you've probably (?) already heard it. One of my favourite releases of all time. ^^

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Geinoh+Yamashirogumi

Oh, here's that cheesy dnb mix using the famous ghost in the shell sample. It's fun.

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try Ensemble Nipponia

incidently, i'm looking for traditional japanese flute-oriented music ... if you stumble across some, hook me up

http://www.japanimprov.com/

Try some of this if you can find it anywhere, particularly the Brett Larner and Yumiko Tanaka stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQF11B0XcG4

Not Japanese, but Wu Fei is really good.

Edit time so short. :S

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYXq4TXIO5E

I fail to see how that video relates to the posters need.

  On 7/29/2009 at 11:40 PM, joshier said:

  On 7/29/2009 at 11:39 PM, Mr Salads said:

ghost in the shell ost - own it but yes this is definitely in the same ballpark in terms of sound. Need those female vocals.

Oh, is this to sample from or just to listen to? I know some very good VST's for choirs if you need some.

No just to listen to. I use the word "need" quite liberally

  On 7/29/2009 at 11:15 PM, Mr Salads said:

I am looking for a quality in music that is taken from traditional japanese music. By "traditional" I mean stuff with plucky guitar sounds and a woman going "wooyyyy" kind of like in Blade Runner.

 

Let's have some suggestions.

i have actually made a lot of music in this style cutting up and recycling old traditional japanese music

here is a track you may enjoy -

lots of guttural japanese female vocal sounds in this one, i can let you know where the source material is from as well

Funny I was just listening to one of Awepittance's tracks called Kabuki2Step_rough. I guess that was a rough draft. Still it was pretty damn interesting.

Anyways, I know this isn't exactly what you're looking for, cause it has no vocals, but check these out:

North Korean Kayagum Ensemble

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h7RBuaGkSU

Pachelbel's Canon updated...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9L825lI-DY

Jega - "Kid Sista"

no femme voice though, but pretty asian.

  On 7/30/2009 at 7:20 AM, Awepittance said:

  On 7/29/2009 at 11:15 PM, Mr Salads said:

I am looking for a quality in music that is taken from traditional japanese music. By "traditional" I mean stuff with plucky guitar sounds and a woman going "wooyyyy" kind of like in Blade Runner.

 

Let's have some suggestions.

 

i have actually made a lot of music in this style cutting up and recycling old traditional japanese music

 

here is a track you may enjoy -

http://fluorescentgrey.rpmchallenge.com/music/2009/20178/20507/03%20kabuki%2Emp3

 

lots of guttural japanese female vocal sounds in this one, i can let you know where the source material is from as well

Yeah! Not bad man! It reminds me of the gutteral stuff matthew barney used for Drawing Restraint 9. This isn't as elegant (if thats the word) as perhaps the stuff I'm looking for, but its still very cool.

i know what you mean the track is pretty chaotic, i can try to find for you the source materials i used. the vocal source material especially is some of my favorite japanese traditional music. I am a pretty hardcore collector of the stuff but i never bothered to pay attention to the names it's all my other computer and will share it soon.

I've been meaning to see Drawing Restraint 9 after i heard it was based around Kabuki theater. I also collect videos of traditional kabuki and nagauta performances, i would love to find more of them though, do you know of a place to watch these chenGOD?

  On 7/30/2009 at 7:33 AM, chenGOD said:

Funny I was just listening to one of Awepittance's tracks called Kabuki2Step_rough. I guess that was a rough draft. Still it was pretty damn interesting.

it still is a rough draft, it's a little closer to being finished now. i had a guy play viola over it, i ended up cutting most of what he did (since he literally played for 12 minutes over the thing).

  On 7/30/2009 at 7:33 AM, chenGOD said:

Funny I was just listening to one of Awepittance's tracks called Kabuki2Step_rough. I guess that was a rough draft. Still it was pretty damn interesting.

Anyways, I know this isn't exactly what you're looking for, cause it has no vocals, but check these out:

 

North Korean Kayagum Ensemble

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h7RBuaGkSU

Duuuuuude. Yeeeessss. What is that instrument? God that's great. I need more of that stuff! I need a CD of that, immediately. Really impressive, epic sound.

Salads: the instrument is called a kayagum. It's a 12 string korean zither.

Awepittance: Sorry, can't really help you out, although I can respect kabuki, I don't really watch much of it because I don't understand a lot of the stories (or the parables they are supposed to convey). Maybe if I understood Japanese better.

Wow, this is one cool instrument.

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This is really crazy. I love it. We just need some female vocals in there. And we're set.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPb0EUxhr9A

Ok dont chastise me for this but listen to the vocals on this. We just need that with a zither.

Getting closer...

Obon dance.

Traditional Japanese dance where people are welcoming the spirits of their ancestors back to their hometowns, every August.

This is a recorded obon dance. the music is fantastic.