Yamato
Japanese drum group "taiko" Yamato will perform the next
22, 23 and 25 April in Budapest Congress Center, 1123 Bp., 1-3 Jagelló
The spectacle of sound offered by the prestigious group Yamato, founded in 1993 by Masaki Ogawa in Nara, in the mythical city Japanese culture, considered the cradle of their civilization, is a peculiar dialogue that its members engage each other.
"Talk to each other through the different tones of their instruments, drawing sympathetic scenes, conversations that end in confrontations and fight music," say its promoters.
This training combines different kinds of drums with cymbals and flute, filling the stage of tones, rhythms and colors, emphasizing the latter by the showy costumes, also reflects its unique and ancient culture.
"Taiko" is the Japanese term for the word drum, played with a few sticks called bachi. The "taiko" is handmade, usually by their own interpreters, and it is believed that the spirit of the trees from which the wood embody each instrument, which are made of horse chestnut, cypress, magnolia and maple.
There are also many types of drums, as the most common, called nagadou Daiko, Miya Daiko, the O-Daiko, the biggest, the smallest: Shime Daiko, Taiko Okedo or a large drum with two heads stretched with ropes