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Drink Down the Sun and the Moon

from Outside Society by Ayuo

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Drink Down The Sun and The Moon by Ayuo is the 12th track from Ayuo's CD "Outside Society", released by Ayuo Music on July 2019.

It is a solo Shakuhachi instrumental.

Ayuo/ Outside Society
WORDS AND MUSIC BY AYUO
ALL COPYRIGHT OWNED BY AYUO

1) A World Not So Perfect (パーフェクトではない世の中)
2) Appearances (ミカケの世界)
3) Where Are You My Child? (どこにいるの?、 私の子供よ)
4) A Breath Of Life / My Soul (生命の息/ 魂(サイケ・ソウル・アニマ))
5) Voices in The Wind (風の中の声たち - 3/11/2011年の東日本大震災の犠牲者達の為の祈り)
6) Beyond Being (存在を超えて)
7) I Dream, I Sleep (夢見る時、眠るとき)
8) Eyes and Movements (目と動き)
9) The Desert In My Heart (心の砂漠)
10) The Flesh and the Mirror (鏡と体)
11) Freedom From Belonging / One Man Society (民衆の一員にならない自由 / たった一人の国)
12) Drink Down The Sun and The Moon (太陽と月を飲みつぶす!)
13) The Beauty of the World (世の中の美しさ)
14) Somewhere There Is A Space Where We Are Still Children (子供のままでいられる宇宙がどこかにある)
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Ayuo: Vocals, Guitar, Bouzouki, Irish Harp, Electric Violin
Akikazu Nakamura 中村明一: Shakuhachi 尺八
Toshiko Kuto 久東寿子: 25-String Koto 二十五絃箏.
Yoko Ueno 上野洋子: Vocals, Accordion, Glocken,
Junzo Tateiwa 立岩潤三: Drums, Percussion
Takuyuki Moriya 守屋拓之: Bass
Fumiko Kai 甲斐史子: Violin, Viola
Takui Matsumoto 松本卓以: Cello
Ken Kaizu 海津賢: Keyboards

lyrics

Inspired by reading Angela Carter's short stories about living in Japan. 4 bars of an old Irish tune is quoted in the middle. This music is about a Celtic woman facing a culture shock. Cultures often seem similar on the surface, if people wear the same fashion. But once you've stayed awhile in a culture that you haven't been raised in, the differences slowly creep on you. Often the differences are hard to detect at first. Being raised as an Asian-Ameican, I felt many of the same things that Angela Carter did when she lived in Japan.

"The Flesh and the Mirror" 「鏡と体」と同じシリーズのAyuoの尺八ソロのためのオリジナル曲。解説には上記の曲を見てみてください。最後の方にアイルランド民謡のフレーズが4小節聴こえてきます。日本に来たアイルランド文化の人を表す曲。

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from Outside Society, released July 24, 2019
(Music composed by Ayuo.- Copyright owned by Ayuo
Registered with JASRAC - Shared with permission from the owner.)


Performed solo by:
Akikazu Nakamura:Shakuhachi

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Ayuo Tokyo, Japan

Ayuo Takahashi (born October 19, 1960) in Tokyo, Japan and raised in New York City) is a Japanese-American composer, poet, lyricist, singer and performer of guitar and bouzouki, From 1984 he has released over a dozen solo albums, collaborating with Peter Hammill, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Danny Thompson, Maddy Prior, Takehisa Kosugi, Carlos Alomar, John Zorn, Clive Deamer, Kazue Sawai and many others. ... more

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