Yuujou

Yuujou

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Walter Lang and Takuya Taniguchi 

European piano tradition meets the art of drumming of “the land of the rising sun”

The project:  For years the two artists have been friends and were playing together, as if they were born in the same hemisphere. Of course, the reverse is true. 
Walter Lang grew up in a small swabian town and Takuya Taniguchi was born and raised in the japanese Fukui prefectur.

Opposites that attract each other on stage.  

Mighty sounds and ultralarge soundscapes  of the Taiko drums hit on subtle and lyrical piano improvisations.
Japanese Folksongs affiliate with western jazz styles.
Archaic japanese rhythms are being added to Lang’s original compostions.

 

Walter Lang

„the poet“, „the lyricist“, „the romantic“ – For years, pianist and composer Walter Lang has been an important member of the european jazzscene.

Countless concerts and tours with his own bands and jazz stars like Lee Konitz, Don Menza, Chico Freeman, Dusko Goykovich and many others show his great musical diversity and creativity .

He cofounded the Rick Hollander Quartet and  Trio ELF, two bands with a wide international recognition. His jazz adaptations of baroque compostions and works from the romantic era are “legendary”.
 
He is also a brilliant composer. The renowned magazine “Fono Forum” says:
Lang´s lovable compositions share the same quality, that great music has. “They entertain you from the very first time and show their deeper meaning, the more you listen to them”

Not everyone in Europe knows, that for many years Lang has been a celebrated jazz artist in Japan. He recorded five CD´s under his own name for the superb M&I Label in Tokyo and has been touring Japan once a year since 1991. 

 

 

Takuya Taniguchi

Takuya Taniguchi ist seit 1999 Leiter der „Tenryu Daiko“, einer Taiko Trommelgruppe, für die er die Kompositionen  schreibt.
Im Juli 2002 gewann er den großen Spezial Preis der Stadt Wien beim Viennese World Youth Music Festival.
2003 wurde er durch Meister Eitetsu Hayashi, den führenden Taiko Trommler Japans ausgewählt, in seiner Gruppe „Fu-un no Kai“ mitzuspielen.
Im Juli 2003 spielte er beim „International Taiko Festival Ecstasia 2003“.

Außerdem trat er beim Count Down Concert in der Osaka Festival Hall, beim Tokyo Summer Music Festival 2004 sowie beim Shimanami Music Festival auf.

Im September 2005 gab es das erste Konzert mit Walter Lang in der Kaze No Mori Hall in Fukui/Japan, im September 2006 spielte er mit „Ku-kai Sen-kyo“ im Natinal Thater in Tokio.