{"id":3758,"date":"2015-09-28T17:13:52","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T08:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/?p=3758"},"modified":"2015-09-28T17:13:52","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T08:13:52","slug":"rizumu-o-taikan-concert-feel-the-rhythm-concert-by-tsuyoshi-maeda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-members\/20150928_3758.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;&#8216;Rizumu o Taikan Concert&#8217; (Feel the Rhythm Concert)&#8221; by Tsuyoshi Maeda"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='wp_social_bookmarking_light'>        <div class=\"wsbl_facebook_like\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-members\/20150928_3758.html\" layout=\"button_count\" action=\"recommend\" width=\"100\" share=\"false\" show_faces=\"false\" ><\/fb:like><\/div>        <div class=\"wsbl_twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-members\/20150928_3758.html\" data-text=\"&#8220;&#8216;Rizumu o Taikan Concert&#8217; (Feel the Rhythm Concert)&#8221; by Tsuyoshi Maeda\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<br class='wp_social_bookmarking_light_clear' \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sep. 26, 2015<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Kodo Appearance at &#8220;Rizumu o Taikan Concert&#8221; (Feel the Rhythm Concert)<\/h2>\n<p>Today we took part in a concert at Bunkamura in Shibuya, Tokyo, especially for citizens of Tokyo. The programme featured tap dancer Kazunori Kumagai, Kotaro Oshio on guitar, and Kodo. We got to collaborate with both artists on a selected\u00a0pieces during the performance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-7821\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/news20150926rhythm-340x481.jpg\" alt=\"news20150926rhythm\" width=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kodo is an ensemble, so when we tour or give performances, we usually perform with just our own members. We don&#8217;t have that\u00a0many opportunities to collaborate with other artists on stage. I learned so much through this collaboration with two top artists. It was so fruitful.\u00a0Kazunori Kumagai and\u00a0Kotaro Oshio are both solo artists who face the world head on, alone. They are such powerful individuals. In comparison, I became keenly aware of how small I am. This kind of encounter is undoubtedly inspiring\u00a0for me as an artist. I am truly grateful for this experience.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/c5129a8ad21b9660d9caa075678398d7-e1443278860184.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7819\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/c5129a8ad21b9660d9caa075678398d7-e1443278860184-680x446.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Taro Nishita\" width=\"640\" height=\"419\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Kazunori Kumagai and Kotaro Oshio, thank you very much for such a great collaboration!!!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Kodo Appearance at &#8220;Rizumu o Taikan Concert&#8221; (Feel the Rhythm Concert)<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/news\/20150926rhythm_en.html\">http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/news\/20150926rhythm_en.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/member\/tsuyoshi_ja.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7748 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/b022d596ab84e2efa5a4ca82613bf437-170x170.jpg\" alt=\"13-\u524d\u7530\u525b\u53f2Portrait_2015_0961-mc\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 1px;\" width=\"1\" \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7830\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/c32b6fc0de56ac792111d8748b838cd41-340x273.jpg\" alt=\"\u5ca9\u5d0e\u3055\u3093\u3068-IMG_1936-150926-taroN-f\" width=\"340\" height=\"273\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Singer Hiromi Iwasaki came to see our performance! Here&#8217;s a picture with a few of us backstage afterwards.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0(From right: Yuichiro, Kosuke, and I)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sep. 26, 2015 Kodo Appearance at &#8220;Rizumu o Taikan Concert&#8221; (Feel the Rhythm Concert) Today we took part in a concert at Bunkamura in Shibuya, Tokyo, especially for citizens of Tokyo. The programme featured tap dancer Kazunori Kumagai, Kotaro Oshio on guitar, and Kodo. We got to collaborate with both artists on a selected\u00a0pieces during the performance. &nbsp; Kodo is an ensemble, so when we tour or give performances, we usually perform with just our own members. We don&#8217;t have that\u00a0many opportunities to collaborate with other artists on stage. I learned so much through this collaboration with two top artists. It was so fruitful.\u00a0Kazunori Kumagai and\u00a0Kotaro Oshio are both solo &#8230; <a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-members\/20150928_3758.html\">\u25b6\u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[55,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3758"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3761,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3758\/revisions\/3761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}