LE KOTO DE HIROMU HANDA
Prestige de la musique extraeuropéenne le Japon vol.1
HIROMU HANDA'S KOTO
Magic of extraeuropean music Japan vol. 1
Editions Espérance, 1977, ESP 155 551
H. Handa was born in Osaka in 1934. He started on the shakuhachi at the age of 6 then followed with the koto and shamisen when he was 13. He learned the classical way of playing the koto and the repertoire from different historic koto schools like the Yamada school; but he's known for his own compositions. He plays 6 of them on this album (tracks A1, A3, A5, A6, B2, B3). He was in France in 1977 at the invitation of the Association française des amis de l'Orient where he performed at the Musée Guimet. In fact that series published by Espérance had other prestigious musicians mostly from India invited to perform and record in Paris.
H. Handa became famous in Japan for his composition called ''night train'' in 1953 and has always worked on new technics for koto playing as well as exploring new styles of composition. There is another LP by him issued in 1979 on the same label. I don't have it but you could check other blogs.
Notes in French only.
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