Watch the new video clip "NAKED"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0uBUH7ajaE

† Tsukiyoi is spearheading the new genre of “NeoMystic J-Rock,” which entwines Japanese traditional, spiritual, electronic music with rock. They approach their music as a ’distraction for creation,’ leading the evolutionary future of Japanese rock in 21st century. Their profound sound is enhanced by their vibrant stage show with Japanese traditional costumes and the world’s first electronic asian zither called the “Electric Koto’. The modern Japanese traditional aesthetic of founder Tetsu Fujiki’s on keyboards and Kou Kakinokihara’s e-koto combined their stunning stage show is a perfect combination of sound and style.

† Tsukiyoi is a duo that formed in 2011. Their music combines rock, electro-pop, tradition, and avant-garde. Kou actually plays the koto, and Tetsu creates various musical worlds. They debuted with “ROKUDAN”, an ambient arrangement of the 400 year-old koto song of the same name. The duo started featuring more songs with Kou’s vocals in 2012. 2013’s “AKAKU SAITE” was called a “very radical pop song” by England’s Electronic Sound magazine. “Transitory”, which is based on “IROHA UTA” (a traditional Japanese song structure) captures Japanese aesthetics and religion. It won second prize at Dubstep Contest, sponsored by an America record label. In July 2014, Tsukiyoi played at “Japan Expo 15” in France where the crowd chanted for TSUKIYOI. After winning the Live Generation X grand prize, the duo played “Tokyo Crazy Kawaii Taipei” in Taiwan in September. Their full album, “Blue Moon” is on sale now.


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† Le groupe Tsukiyoi puise dans ses racines pour vous fait revivre l’âme du Japon, en mélangeant des sons traditionnels, à un goût moderne.

† Tsukiyoi est un duo constitué de Kou (joueuse professionnelle de koto, l’un des plus anciens instruments traditionnels japonais), et de Tetsu, créateur d’univers musicaux.

† Kou joue du koto depuis l’âge de 5 ans, et du shamisen depuis ses 10 ans. Diplômée en 2006 de l’université de Tôkyô Geijutsu, elle s’est spécialisée dans la musique de koto de style Ikuta.
Tetsu est quant à lui un musicien polyvalent qui maitrise la musique occidentale et orientale (le violon, le piano, le chant nô, le shamisen…). Il a participé à la création de nombreux disques en tant qu’arrangeur ou directeur musical.

http://paris.tsukiyoi.com


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† エレクトロポップと伝統・前衛が交差するサウンドユニット『月宵』。日本の伝統楽器、”箏”を自在に操るKouと、幅広い音楽世界を創造するTetsuにより2011年結成。

400年前の箏曲「六段」をアンビエントにアレンジしたROKUDANがデビュー作。2012年よりKouのボーカルをフィーチャーした楽曲を続々発表。2013年発表の楽曲「赤く咲いて」は"超ラディカルなポップソング"と評され英国Electronic Sound誌に取り上げられたほか、「いろはうた」を題材に日本の美意識・宗教観を盛り込んだ楽曲『Transitory」は米レーベル主催Dubstep Contestで堂々二位受賞。

2014年7月にはフランス「Japan Expo 15」に登場し現地にTSUKIYOIコールを起こす。同年9月、台湾「Tokyo Crazy Kawaii Taipei」出演。

The first sample of the instrument has been created by me in December 2013. It happened, to be honest, for the most part accidentally. Though, of course, I believe that nothing happens by accident at all.
In general, everything happened as the following:  while experimenting with the creation of reed drums, I noticed an interesting acoustic effect. This effect was that when you play the instrument at the reed drum there appeare to be additional overtones. In the future, experimenting with this effect, I tried, using technological methods, to allocate the overtone and strengthen it.
In the end, I managed to do that – the overtone sounded as I initially wanted: it added to the sound lobe certain harmonious color.
This way was born an instrument that I called GUDA. The origin of the name of the instrument is very interesting I think.  The name is basically composed of two words: “Gu” – is a hole on the bottom side of handpan and “da” – is an imitation of the sound of a hammer hitting metal.
 It turned out, that there are a lot of meanings of this word: there is the Belarusian word “guda” [Gu:da]; in Ukrainian and Russian there are verbs sounding like “gude”[gu:de], and  “gudet`”[gu:det] (to buzz).
InstrumentТs name origin could be also connected with the name of the creator: the abbreviated capital letters of my name and surname – Gubarev D.A (but due to innate modesty this theory of origin of the instruments name I put in the last place).
Whatever it was, but the set of all versions of name origin led to the decision to name the newly baked instrument Guda (GUDA). The name of a musical instrument is well documented and is a registered trademark.

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