Geinoh Yamashirogumi (Japanese: 芸能山城組, Gein? Yamashirogumi) is a Japanese musical collective founded on January 19, 1974 by Tsutomu ?hashi, consisting of hund . .   Expand    Wikipedia

Geinoh Yamashirogumi (Japanese: 芸能山城組, Gein? Yamashirogumi) is a Japanese musical collective founded on January 19, 1974 by Tsutomu ?hashi, consisting of hundreds of people from all walks of life: journalists, doctors, engineers, students, businessmen, etc. They are known for both their faithful re-creations of folk music from around the world, as well as their fusion of various traditional musical styles with modern instrumentation and synthesizers. For example, in the 1980s, MIDI digital synthesizers could not handle the tuning systems of traditional gamelan music, so the group had to teach themselves how to program in order to modify their equipment. The album that followed, Ecophony Rinne (1986) was a new direction for the group: they had not previously incorporated computer-generated sounds into their work. The success of this album brought them to the attention of Katsuhiro ?tomo, who commissioned them to create the soundtrack of Akira. The soundtrack is built on the concept of recurrent themes or "modules". Texturally, the soundtrack is a mix of digital synthesizers (Roland D-50, etc), Indonesian chromatic percussion (jegog, etc.), traditional Japanese theatrical and spiritual music (Noh), European classical, and progressive rock.

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