Yagi Michiyo

Yagi Michiyo playing koto
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About the artist

Michiyo Yagi (八木美知依, Yagi Michiyo), a Japanese musician, studied koto under the late Tadao Sawai, Kazue Sawai and Satomi Kurauchi, and graduated from the NHK Professional Training School for Traditional Musicians. Between 1989 and 1990 she was a visiting professor of Music at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, U.S.A. During her tenure she premiered numerous modern compositions for koto and came under the influence of maverick American composers such as John Cage, Conlon Nancarrow, and John Zorn.

Top songs

  1. Diminished Shower
  2. Remembrance
  3. Talking Durian
  4. Seawall 1
  5. Monochord
  6. Shizuku
  7. Foggy
  8. Jueki
  9. Ai No Corrida
  10. Nenrin
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  1. Taieki
  2. Seawall 2
  3. talieki
  4. Fruits From Viet NAM
  5. Topaz
  6. Rouge
  7. Obsidian
  8. Deep Green Sea
  9. Suetsumuhana
  10. Sedna (for Mark Dresser)
  11. The Bicycle Ride
  12. The Story Teller
  13. Diminishing Shower
  14. Rememberence
  15. Song of the Steppes
  16. The Storyteller
  17. Talking Dorian
  18. Diminished Shower | OPPORTUNITY AND ADVENTURE! | IntergalacticFM.com | We're Friends!
  19. Shizuku - GTO
  20. Michiyo 03
  21. Great Teacher Onizuka - Shizuku
  22. taikei
  23. Michiyo 04
  24. Shizuku Gto Ending
  25. 01 - Diminished Shower
  26. 01 Diminished Shower
  27. Monochord | Shizuku | Tzadik | 1999 | | Before: BIBIO - Under The Pier | Electronic Dreams starts @ 7 | 07.12.2010
  28. Ai No Corrida | Shizuku | Tzadik | 1999 | | Before: BRIAN ENO - Jungles | Electronic Dreams starts @ 7 | 21.12.2010
  29. Foggy | Shizuku | Tzadik | 1999 | | Before: FRIPP & ENO - Lyra | Ian Martin Presents SEER Radio | 23.12.2010
  30. Seawall 2 | Shizuku | Tzadik | 1999 | | Before: KEN IKEDA - A Part of Shunkin | Electronic Dreams | 29.12.2010
  31. Nenrin | Shizuku | Tzadik | 1999 | | Before: ENO, MOEBIUS, RODELIUS - Broken Head | Electronic Dreams | 11.01.2011
  32. Seawall 2 | Shizuku | Tzadik | 1999 | | Before: PHALANGIUS - Snowman Theorem | SEER Sunday Non-Stop | 15.07.2012
  33. Nenrin | Shizuku | Tzadik | US 1999 | | Before: SEER Radio | SEER_Sunday_Dark_Hour |
  34. Seawall 1 | Shizuku | Tzadik | US 1999 | | Before: TOR LUNDVALL | SEER_Sunday_Dark_Hour |
  35. Diminished Shower | Shizuku | Tzadik | US 1999 | | Before: ULF LOHMANN | SEER_Sunday_Dark_Hour |
  36. Monochord | Shizuku | Tzadik | US 1999 | | Before: THE DREAM MACHINE | SEER_Sunday_Nonstop |
  37. 02 - Talking Durian
  38. 03 - Remembrance
  39. 04 - Seawall 1
  40. 05 - Monochord
  41. 06 - Talieki
  42. 07 - Jueki
  43. 08 - Shizuku
  44. 09 - Foggy
  45. 10 - Nenrin
  46. 11 - Seawall 2
  47. Nahm
  48. 打吟 Ta-Gin
  49. Ibrian Sunset
  50. 波上吟 Hajou-Gin
  51. 01 Shizuku
  52. Monochord | On: SEER Sunday - More on IntergalacticFM.com
  53. Ai No Corrida | On: SEER Sunday - More on IntergalacticFM.com
  54. Seawall 2 | On: SEER Sunday - More on IntergalacticFM.com
  55. Nenrin | OPPORTUNITY AND ADVENTURE! | IntergalacticFM.com | We're Friends!
  56. Seawall 1 | ALONE AND UNAFRAID |
  57. Remembrance | THE WORLD IS YOURS | IntergalacticFM.com | We're Friends!
  58. Shizuku | Shizuku | Tzadik | 1999 | US | A LIFETIME OF SILENCE BEHIND THE RED PLANET | www.intergalactic.fm/main | No Station Such Dedication
  59. Talking Durian | Shizuku | Tzadik | 1999 | US | ALONE AND UNAFRAID | www.intergalactic.fm | No Station Such Dedication
  60. Diminished Shower | NO STATION SUCH DEDICATION | www.Intergalactic.fm/dream_machine | No Station Such Dedication
  61. Monochord | Shizuku | Tzadik | 1999 | US | ALONE AND UNAFRAID * www.intergalactic.fm/shop * viewlexx.bandcamp.com *
  62. Godan Ginuta
  63. Nenrin | Shizuku | Tzadik | 1999 | US | THE DREAM MACHINE * www.intergalactic.fm/shop * viewlexx.bandcamp.com *

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