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The Yoshida Kyōdai (吉田兄弟) are Japanese musicians and have released several albums under the Domo Records internationally as the Yoshida Brothers.
They are a pair of brothers and performers of the traditional Japanese music style of Tsugaru-jamisen which originated in northern Japan. They debuted in 1999 in Japan as a duo playing the shamisen. Their first album sold over 100,000 copies and made them minor celebrities in Japan, a fact that surprised the Yoshida Brothers themselves.[1] They have since attracted an international audience.
Their music has been a fusion of the rapid and percussive Tsugaru-jamisen style along with Western and other regional musical influences. In addition to performing songs that are only on the shamisen, they also use modern instruments such as drums and synthesizers.[2]
The commercials for the Nintendo's Wii video game console that began airing in North America in November 2006 feature the Yoshida Brothers song, "Kodo (Inside the Sun Remix)."[3]
Members
Ryōichirō Yoshida (吉田 良一郎, Yoshida Ryōichirō, born 26 July 1977) and Ken'ichi Yoshida (吉田 健一, Yoshida Ken'ichi, born 16 December 1979) were born in Noboribetsu in Hokkaidō Prefecture, Japan. The two brothers have played the shamisen from a very young age.[2] They both began to study and play the shamisen from five years of age under Koka Adachi, learning the Minyō-shamisen style; from about 1989 they studied the Tsugaru-jamisen style under Takashi Sasaki.
Discography
International albums
- Yoshida Brothers (2003)
- Yoshida Brothers II (2004)
- Yoshida Brothers III (2006)
- Prism (2009)
2007 - Hishou
- Prelude Hishou
- Ibuki
- Kodo
- Ringo Bushi
- Ajigasawa
- Yasaburo
- Panorama
- Tsugaru Yosare
- Time of Sand
- Tsugaru Aiya
- Modern
- Dual
- Tsugaru Jongara
- Postlude Hishou
2008 - Best of Yoshida Brothers - Tsugaru Shamisen
- Storm
- Kodo (Hishou version)
- Overland Blues
- A Hill With No Name
- Modern (Hishou Version)
- Saiun
- Passion
- My Heart Holds
- Blooming
- Cherry Blossoms in Winter
- Kodo (Inside The Sun Remix)
- Rising
- Morricone
Nightmare Revisited
The 2008 Disney album, Nightmare Revisited [4], which consists of 20 remade tracks from the original The Nightmare Before Christmas, featured the Yoshida Brothers' remake of the track "Nabbed". The song kept true to the Yoshida Brothers' shamisen style yet contained added electronic elements.
12. "Nabbed" (7:35)
Japanese albums
- Ibuki (1999)
- Move (2000)
- Soulful (2002)
- Frontier (2003) (a.k.a. Yoshida Brothers 2005)
- Renaissance (2004)
Other appearances
- "Renovation" (with Akira Inoue) from the album Spectacle. (2009) by Daishi Dance
References
- ^ J-Pop World interview
- ^ a b "Four Notes - Yoshida Brothers". Retrieved 2007-09-12.
- ^ "MySpace - Yoshida Brothers (official)". Retrieved 2007-09-12.
- ^ http://disneymusic.disney.go.com/albums/nightmarerevisited.html
External links
- Template:En icon Yoshida Brothers: Official web site
- Template:En icon Yoshida Brothers Official MySpace
- Template:En icon Domo Music Group - Yoshida Brothers' Record Company
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