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OKABE →Japanese
Playing Hichiriki
HARUHIKO OKABE is performing these two music seens.
1. as a Free Improvisation performer
major instrments
(1).Tenor Saxophone
(2).Balinese Bamboo Instrments (Tingklik,
Suling)
(3).Hichiriki (traditional Japanese
pipe of Gagaku)
(4).Didgeridoo
2. as a Gagaku (traditional Japanese
court music ) performer (major Hictiriki)
Haruhiko Okabe Profile
Free Improvisor Japanese born in 1961
He plays the Tenor Saxophone and
Hichiriki (A Japanese traditional instrument simular to
oboe, used in Gagaku; Japanese court music).
His style has been based on Jazz and Free Jazz.
He studied Jazz when he was a student of Okayama
University Japan, majoring philosophy, in its Jazz club.
In 1997 he started to perform as a professional musician
at Ogikubo Goodman in Tokyo (a live house specialized in
Free Jazz).
In 1998 he made a short journey to Bali Indonesia, and
studied some Balinese music ,
suling; bamboo flute tingklik; bamboo zylophone.
After return to Japan he found Gagaku Hichiriki,
and studied it in Japanese shrine from an old Shinto
priest.
In 1999 he particepated in Creative Music Festival in
Shimane Japan and met Carl Bergstroem-Nielsen.
In 2000 he had a duo concert with Joelle Leandre in
Okayama Japan.
In 2001 he went to northen Australia to study music of
Aborigine's Dejeridoo.
In 2005 he had a duo concert with Carl Bergstroem-Nielsen
"Intuitiv Music from Denmark" and organized "Hichiriki and Kyboad Harmonika Improvisation Meeting in Takamatsu" in
Takamatsu Japan.
His music is a kind of a cross criticism of these musical
experiences and a transfiguration of the subject through
reflections of these resonances.
He lives in Takamatsu Kagawa Japan.
Live
monthly solo live at Jazz club "GOODMAN
Ogikubo Tokyo" and others.
CD
1."Haruhiko Okabe Improvisations, Thinking
Pipes"
Sakti Musik 0001 US$20
2."LIVE at Shionoe Museum, Haruhiko Okabe
+ Yu Wakao (piano)"
Duo Improvisation MESOSTICS 0010 US$20
1. 2.
You can buy these CDs by
e-mail. （Mail charge is included.）
contact
haruhikoo2003@yahoo.co.jp
Takamatsu Kagawa JAPAN