Comments on: KODO: Playing with Style http://blog.onetaiko.org/2009/04/kodo-playing-with-style/ the pulse and the rhythms of the members of Odaiko New England Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:12:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Kani http://blog.onetaiko.org/2009/04/kodo-playing-with-style/comment-page-1/#comment-1353 Kani Sun, 06 Sep 2009 17:25:24 +0000 http://blog.onetaiko.org/?p=375#comment-1353 Kate reading this now I realized you have the KODO members name wrong. The one in the photo is Yuichiro Funabashi and not Kenta. Kate reading this now I realized you have the KODO members name wrong.
The one in the photo is Yuichiro Funabashi and not Kenta.

]]> By: kate http://blog.onetaiko.org/2009/04/kodo-playing-with-style/comment-page-1/#comment-12 kate Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:10:46 +0000 http://blog.onetaiko.org/?p=375#comment-12 I want to do that, too, except wearing a bit more clothing. And with an ambulance standing by, just in case...But seriously, I often think that what I love about Taiko is the fact that you can exhaust yourself in this way. I guess it's the same reason that people run marathons: not just the process and the triumph of completion, but that incredible feeling of being completely, physically wrung out at the end. As I mentioned, the soloist was too wrung out to come to our post-show reception. I wonder what a Kodo drummer does to recuperate from such a challenge, and be ready to play again in a couple of days? Does anybody know? I want to do that, too, except wearing a bit more clothing. And with an ambulance standing by, just in case…But seriously, I often think that what I love about Taiko is the fact that you can exhaust yourself in this way. I guess it’s the same reason that people run marathons: not just the process and the triumph of completion, but that incredible feeling of being completely, physically wrung out at the end. As I mentioned, the soloist was too wrung out to come to our post-show reception. I wonder what a Kodo drummer does to recuperate from such a challenge, and be ready to play again in a couple of days? Does anybody know?

]]> By: joy http://blog.onetaiko.org/2009/04/kodo-playing-with-style/comment-page-1/#comment-11 joy Thu, 09 Apr 2009 03:08:09 +0000 http://blog.onetaiko.org/?p=375#comment-11 so, maybe I'm weird, but my response to watching the Odaiko + Yatai combo is <blockquote> I want to do that! </blockquote> No one ever accused me of being reasonable .... so, maybe I’m weird, but my response to watching the Odaiko + Yatai combo is

I want to do that!

No one ever accused me of being reasonable ….

]]> By: Brian Sole http://blog.onetaiko.org/2009/04/kodo-playing-with-style/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Brian Sole Thu, 09 Apr 2009 02:37:42 +0000 http://blog.onetaiko.org/?p=375#comment-10 I remember thinking the same thing the first time I saw Kodo (1998?) It was the same thing. 15?...20? minute Odaiko solo followed by Yatai Bayashi. When I saw the Odaiko soloist's face during Yatai Bayashi, I also worried that he would have a heart attack, or something right there on the stage. But I remember thinking, "He looks like he's about to die, but if he does, I bet he will be overjoyed to go out playing taiko in this way." I remember thinking the same thing the first time I saw Kodo (1998?) It was the same thing. 15?…20? minute Odaiko solo followed by Yatai Bayashi. When I saw the Odaiko soloist’s face during Yatai Bayashi, I also worried that he would have a heart attack, or something right there on the stage. But I remember thinking, “He looks like he’s about to die, but if he does, I bet he will be overjoyed to go out playing taiko in this way.”

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