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song: Beams
artist: 上妻宏光
album: Beams
released: 2003-07-26length: 4:47
6.5
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(Instrumental)
上妻宏光

Hiromitsu Agatsuma (上妻 宏光 Agatsuma Hiromitsu, born July 27, 1973) is a Japanese shamisen artist who plays the Tsugaru-jamisen, a larger shamisen with thicker strings than those used for most other styles. He was born in Hitachi, Ibaraki Prefecture.

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Comments ( 38 )
Posted 10 years ago by Smitix:
Sugoi subarashii yo!
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Posted 21 years ago by Roverfish:
Jan Hammer via Tokyo? One bonus point for creative sound, one penalty point for length. Hmmm...not more than a 5. Just "there."
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Posted 10 years ago by arserocket:
 
Posted: Aug 13, 2014 - 23:35
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Just woke up - had this strange dream


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Posted 10 years ago by Hippostar:
gdignard wrote:
Another casualty of "not knowing when your song should end".

 
Yeah, they keep forgetting to hit the "end" button on their drum machine.

I don't know a lot about the shamisen, but it's apparent that it must be limited in it's play and leave very little room for creativity.


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Posted 21 years ago by MrCostello:
If only they had SEAL to sing with this song. "CRAZY....."
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Posted 21 years ago by zborgerd:
lennier wrote:
For some reason, this song reminds me of the music that used to play on those ninja fighting games, on the old 8-bit nintendo. I expect a disembodied voice to go, "Ready. FIGHT!"
Haha. Definately Mortal Kombat+Shinobi!
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Posted 21 years ago by :
Really cool...well done, thanks for playing this
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Posted 21 years ago by skindy:
Wow -- this was the first song playing when I tuned in this morning, and it really caught my attention. Never heard it before, but I like it much! I'm surprised more people haven't commented on it. Please play more...
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Posted 21 years ago by zaknafein:
Very nice stuff.
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Posted 21 years ago by halavais:
Play more shamisen, but maybe not this ...
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Posted 2 years ago by goodenough:
 zenhead wrote:

Make it stop.



It did, eventually.🐨
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Posted 10 years ago by Pioneer_Sing:
Yoshida brothers have done it better.....
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Posted 10 years ago by gdignard:
Another casualty of "not knowing when your song should end".
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Posted 10 years ago by NeilBlanchard:
flyboy50 wrote:
Electronica meets banjo. I'm digging this.

 
Except it is not a banjo.  It is a Shamisen.
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Posted 10 years ago by flyboy50:
Electronica meets banjo. I'm digging this.
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Posted 10 years ago by Jitskeharm:
I agree with that!
 Hairfarmer wrote:
Thanks, Bill and Rebecca, for including "electronic" music in with everything else here, and not just dismising it like so many as just some talentless kids letting their computers and record players make music for them. It's the same ignorant argument that so many made in the late sixties/early seventies that using electronic effects and synthesisers wasn't valid music. It was "cheating". BS! a person still has to manipulate the aperatus to make the music, weather the instrument is a digital interface, or a wooden box with strings on it.
 

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Posted 10 years ago by dziebell:
dwongraded from 2 to 1 because of the false finish just an era or millenium ago.  
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Posted 21 years ago by Typesbad:
There are a lot ways to pick this song apart. But I still kind of like it.
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Posted 21 years ago by Hairfarmer:
Thanks, Bill and Rebecca, for including "electronic" music in with everything else here, and not just dismising it like so many as just some talentless kids letting their computers and record players make music for them. It's the same ignorant argument that so many made in the late sixties/early seventies that using electronic effects and synthesisers wasn't valid music. It was "cheating". BS! a person still has to manipulate the aperatus to make the music, weather the instrument is a digital interface, or a wooden box with strings on it.
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Posted 21 years ago by :
:headache.gif: my ears, my ears!!!
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