Yoshida Brothers

Yoshida Brothers
Background information
Origin Noboribetsu, Hokkaidō, Japan
Genres Tsugaru-jamisen
Years active 1999–current
Labels Domo
Website domomusicgroup.com/yoshidabrothers/
Members Ryōichirō Yoshida
Kenichi Yoshida

The Yoshida Brothers (吉田兄弟 Yoshida Kyōdai) are Japanese musicians who have released several albums on the Domo Records label.

The two brothers are performers of the traditional Japanese music style of Tsugaru-jamisen which originated in northern Japan. They debuted in 1999 in Japan as a duo playing the shamisen. Their first album sold over 100,000 copies and made them minor celebrities in Japan, a fact that surprised the Yoshida Brothers themselves.[1] They have since attracted an international audience.

Their music has been a fusion of the rapid and percussive Tsugaru-jamisen style along with Western and other regional musical influences. In addition to performing songs that are only on the shamisen, they also use instruments such as drums and synthesizers.[2]

The commercials for the Nintendo's Wii video game console that began airing in North America in November 2006 featured the Yoshida Brothers song "Kodo (Inside the Sun Remix)".[3]

Members

Ryōichirō Yoshida (吉田 良一郎 Yoshida Ryōichirō, born 26 July 1977) and Kenichi Yoshida (吉田 健一 Yoshida Ken'ichi, born 16 December 1979) were born in Noboribetsu in Hokkaido, Japan. The two brothers have played the shamisen from a very young age.[2] They both began to study and play the shamisen from five years of age under Koka Adachi, learning the Minyō-shamisen style; from about 1989 they studied the Tsugaru-jamisen style under Takashi Sasaki.

Discography

International albums

Nightmare Revisited

The 2008 Disney album, Nightmare Revisited,[4] which consists of 20 remade tracks from the original The Nightmare Before Christmas, featured the Yoshida Brothers' remake of the track "Nabbed". The song kept true to the Yoshida Brothers' shamisen style yet contained added electronic elements.

12. "Nabbed" (7:35)

Japanese albums

Other appearances

References

  1. ↑ J-Pop World interview
  2. 1 2 "Four Notes - Yoshida Brothers". Retrieved 2007-09-12.
  3. ↑ "MySpace - Yoshida Brothers (official)". Retrieved 2007-09-12.
  4. ↑ http://disneymusic.disney.go.com/albums/nightmarerevisited.html

External links

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