minakumari:vocalist,sitarist,guitarist and composer
Minakumari’s profile in 2009
In 1994, Mina, aka Minakumari, debuted as a guitarist who was responsible for most of the lyrics and songs of the girls' band Catch-up, which released three historic albums. She graduated from the Indian Languages department of the Asia-Africa Linguistic Institute of Tokyo. She started to learn the sitar in 2003 under the distinctive sitar player Moniral Nag in Calcutta, India, while studying psychology at christ college in Bangalore, India. Then in 2005, she graduated from the Calcutta Tea School, India. Since returning to her hometown, Tokyo, she has played active roles in Cold Sugar, to which Japanese pop icons Chara and Akino Arai belong, in addition to Chara's solo live performances and Arai's studio recordings.
On April 16, 2008, she successfully released her first solo album “Rasa” (DDCA-5048) and then gave consecutive performances in France, playing at four Paris venues in April 2009. Then in June of the same year, she played sitar in a recording of a new album by Rip Slym, a commercially successful Japanese pop quintet.
With the distinctive tunes of Indian instruments such as sitars and tablas blended into her post-electronica pop songs, she has successfully been attracting not only music connoisseurs, but also casual, female and child audiences thanks to her memorable melodies, singing voices and sounds. Though her lyrics are spontaneously in Japanese, English or Hindi, all her utterances can be listened to as if a Japanese phrase were in Hindi, or an English word were in Japanese, or vice versa, and this has a very unique and soothing effect on her enchanted audiences. The amazing sounds, lyrics and rhythms of the truly free Minakumari world never fail to bring joy to the listener.
Albums Released:
・Uchu Buranco( space swing) in1998
・Aaj(today)in1999
・Maxi single-cold green soup
・Spirit Album
・sanso(oxygen )
.RASA
Played life as a guitarist and composer with Catch-up and Egao dorami
Started to learn sitar with Manilal Nag iｎ india since 2003
Joined the class of christ college at Bangalore in 2005
Performing as a sitarist and guitarist with Cold suger and Shironqo(White cat)
Cold suger members are Chara and Akino Arai etc....
"First solo album RASA now on sale !!"
■minakumari ・ joueuse de sitar et・
auteur-compositeur-compositeur-interpr・te
Nationalit・ Japonaise・
En 1994,d・but avec le groupe CATCH-UP comme
auteur-compositeur-compositeur
guitariste
3 albums d・j・ sortis avec CATCH-UP
En 2003,Inde Calcutta stage de sitar sous la direction
de MONIRAL NAG
Dipl・m・e de l'・cole de th・ indien
Dipl・m・e de l'・cole de langue Hindi
Apr・s retour au Japon,le groupe ColdSugar avec Chara et
Akino Arai
Le 16 avril 2008,sortie de l'album 『RASA』（DDCA-5048）
Paroles en 3 langues /anglais/japonais/hindi
Recherche sur les ressemblances des sonorit・s de ces 3
langues en les
m・langeant pour obtenir des m・lodies myst・rieuses et
agr
・ables
Son paroles et rythme qui s'envolent sont le monde libre
de minakumari
minakumari nouvel album "RASA"・
artistes・ participant: Akino Arai,Hogari
Hisaaki,U_zhaan(Asa-chang junrei),Kenichi
Shirane(Great3),Yasunori Takada(MONO),Hosomi Sakana etc
plus d'infos pour l'album：e-jima@discshopzero.com
http://www.discshopzero.com
So you know Rachel Dadd? We like her too and we've played with her in the UK.. We'll come to Japan next week and plays a couple of shows so if you wanna come to a show and say "hello" or "Bonjour" in french....
Jazz vocalist Mayumi
Akasaki has recently been performing one of my songs, “It’s Time to Get
Away”! Mayumi can be seen in this “live” performance video singing it at the Satin
Club.
If you are a jazz fan, or looking for a sophisticated night
out, please support her by going to one of her shows. Her upcoming gigs are
shown on the main page of her MySpace profile.
Please support our Indie Pop "EP CLUB" presented by Series Two Records and Eggnog Records. It is a collaboration between an Indie Pop label in Nebraska and one in New Zealand. The indie pop EP CLUB's include artists from around the world.
Hello, We're freinds of Rachel dadd and we'll come to play some shows in Japan in November. Please come to say hello if you come to one of the shows... Thomas
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