#SaturdayOnStage 🎶

Wagakki Band - 焔 (Homura) + 暁ノ糸 (Akatsuki no Ito) / 1st JAPAN Tour 2015 Hibiya Yagai Ongakudo

youtube link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ponTbDDMYjw

#Music #Metal #FolkMetal #JMetal #WagakkiBand

🎶 Wagakki Band: A magia do Japão tradicional e do rock moderno!🎶
Já conhecem a Wagakki Band? Este grupo japonês, formado em 2013, é uma verdadeira fusão de sons: misturam instrumentos tradicionais japoneses (como koto, shakuhachi e wadaiko) com guitarras, baixo e bateria, criando uma energia única entre o folk e o rock.
Com a poderosa voz de Yuko Suzuhana (eleita Miss Nico Nama em 2011) e a maestria dos seus sete músicos, cada canção é uma viagem entre o antigo e o moderno. Dos álbuns Vocalo Zanmai (2014) a REACT (2019), passando por “singles” como Hanabi e Strong Fate, a banda não para de surpreender!
🔗 Ouviram algum trabalho deles? Partilhem as vossas músicas favoritas nos comentários! E se ainda não conhecem, aqui fica o link para explorarem: wagakkiband.jp
#WagakkiBand #JPop #FolkRock #MúsicaJaponesa #TradicionalModerno

https://youtu.be/K_xTet06SUo?si=4qFg0rVfvTQGIBxM

Wagakki Band (和楽器バンド) – Yasouemaki (八奏絵巻) (2015, Japan)

Our next spotlight is on number 1011 on The List, submitted by ChrisJagged. Founded by Suzuhana Yuko, this band is named after the traditional Japanese instruments that are prominent in their music, wagakki. Originating out of Suzuhana’s acoustic folk trio Hanafugetsu, the band essentially merged with folk punk/visual kei band Crow×Class to result in a 8-member group with a sound that lands somewhere in-between the folk rock and folk metal spheres. The album we look at here, their second, incorporates methods of Shigin, a traditional poetry form performed/recited in a particular manner.

Want to read more? See the full spotlight: https://1001otheralbums.com/2025/04/02/wagakki-band-%e5%92%8c%e6%a5%bd%e5%99%a8%e3%83%90%e3%83%b3%e3%83%89-yasouemaki-%e5%85%ab%e5%a5%8f%e7%b5%b5%e5%b7%bb-2015-japan/

Want to skip straight to the music? Here's a Songlink: https://album.link/i/1031872724

Happy listening!

#WagakkiBand #SuzuhanaYuko #Hanafugetsu #CrowxClass #FolkRock #FolkMetal #JPop #JRock #Shigin #Japan #JapaneseMusic #music #1001OtherAlbums

Wagakki Band (和楽器バンド) – Yasouemaki (八奏絵巻) (2015, Japan)

Our next spotlight is on number 1011 on The List, submitted by ChrisJagged.

Founded by singer, composer, lyricist, Shigin master, Kenshibu dancer, and classical pianist Suzuhana Yuko, Wagakki Band (和楽器バンド) is named after the traditional Japanese instruments that are prominent in their music, wagakki. Originating out of Suzuhana’s acoustic folk trio Hanafugetsu (which is still active), the band essentially merged with folk punk/visual kei band Crow×Class to result in a 8-member group with a sound that lands somewhere in-between the folk rock and folk metal spheres. Wagakki Band first gained popularity via their adaptations of Vocaloid songs, with their first LP, Vocalo Zanmai (ボカロ三昧) (2014), consisting solely of Vocaloid covers. The album we look at here is their second studio album and first to contain original material. It incorporates methods of Shigin, a traditional poetry form performed/recited in a particular manner, as would their following albums.

Following the release of Yasouemaki, Wagakki Band’s popularity would continue to grow both at home and internationally, and the band would go on to release five more LPs, with Tokyo Singing (2020) featuring a collaboration with Amy Lee of Evanescence. As of the end of 2024, the band has gone on indefinite hiatus.

Even if you, like me, don’t know much about J-rock/J-pop, if you have an interest in folk rock/metal (and love/miss[1] key changes!), this is a really fun band to check out.

Happy listening!

• Songlink: Wagakki Band – Yasouemaki
• Discogs: Wagakki Band – Yasouemaki

#CrowxClass #folkMetal #folkRock #Hanafugetsu #JPop #JRock #music #musicDiscovery #Shigin #SuzuhanaYuko #WagakkiBand

Suzuhana Yuuko-「悠久の地」("Eternal Land")

Big beautiful sound, an instrumental from the Wagakki band leader and a few of her bandmates

#WagakkiBand #Music
https://youtu.be/CBlubsEE944?si=LH7icQqYcZkI-iQt

Your flashback to-day is to #Japan's superb #WagakkiBand.

https://youtu.be/fcucbhJ-Orc
https://youtu.be/_uxpHq3inUA
https://youtu.be/T4RHuXd5pMg
https://youtu.be/Y5zj3dwNxJw
https://youtu.be/K_xTet06SUo
#FlashbackFriday #LunchtimeListens

This week for #JMusicFriday, @kingu gave us a theme of "East And West" - collaborations between Japanese and Western artists.

A favorite collaboration of mine is when Amy Lee teamed up with Wagakki Band for the song Sakura Rising. https://song.link/us/i/1774459966

It's such a great song.

Additionally, they did a live show together where they did an amazing version of the Evanescence classic Bring Me to Life. Check it out: https://song.link/y/hk1GtYK7BJM

#Music #EastAndWest #Evanescence #WagakkiBand #和楽器バンド #NuMetal #JPop #JRock #Tokyo_Singing

De vez en cuando viene a mi mente esta versión de Bring me to life interpretada por Amy Lee, Wagakki Band y una orquesta.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk1GtYK7BJM

#Evanescence #WagakkiBand #Rock #Music #Canciondeldia