We've uploaded the short version of 9 songs from Ema & Esoh's new album "Hahauta".
Memories of today and wishes for tomorrow fill your mind when falling asleep. A Mother's Songs 2 by Ema & Esoh will create a dream world for you, set in the stars, that you could only reach as a child through your mother's lullabies.
TRACK LIST
01. Ni-Sa
02. Bangamui
03. Lullaby of Wind
04. Rorogwela
05. Komoriuta (Lullaby)
06. Ifunke
07. Praying Song of Wind and Desert
08. A.O.I.
09. Hahauta (Chant for Mother Earth
Ema & Esoh - Praying Song of Wind & Desert: Hahauta (short ver.)
Ema & Esoh - Komoriuta (Lullaby): Hahauta (short ver.)
Hahauta
Memories of today and wishes for tomorrow fill your mind when falling asleep. Hahauta (means Mother's Songs) by Ema & Esoh will create a dream world for you, set in the stars, that you could only reach as a child through your mother's lullabies.
01. Ni-Sa
02. Bangamui
03. Lullaby of Wind
04. Rorogwela
05. Komoriuta (Lullaby)
06. Ifunke
07. Praying Song of Wind and Desert
08. A.O.I.
09. Hahauta (Chant for Mother Earth)
Vocals & Er-hu
Ema is a multi-talented musician and artist and also one of a very few Er-hu players in Japan. Esoh is composer, producer, & multi-instrumentalist
Esoh performs, composes, and delves into the depth of sound, looking for rhythms with an overflowing life force. He has excellent command of a range of ethnic instruments, vocal techniques, and piano. They met in 1987, and since then they enjoyed a world-wide career as a performing duo, producing eight CDs in the process.
Ema & Esoh's latest album Holy Songs shows their personal touches on sentimental folk standards like Amazing Grace, Greensleeves, Salley Gardens, and Londonderry Air. It also includes one original track.
We are thrilled to introduce our new artist, EMA&ESOH!!
Artist Profile
＊Ema
Voice and Er-hu. Er-hu, a two string instrument originally from the Middle East, this instrument traveled East via the Silk road and developed along the way in China. Ema is one of a very few Er-hu players in Japan.
Ema is a distinguished vocalist as well, her voice adds a borderless sensitivity to their music. Ema's visual artwork adorns YURAI works' CDs and print media.
＊Esoh
Esoh performs sound, composes sound, and delves into the depth of sound, looking for rhythms overflowing with the life force. He has excellent command of a range of ethnic instruments, vocal techniques, piano and the electronic sound field, all of which he uses in both live performances and studio work.
In his search for roots and indigenous rhythm, from 1986 to 1992 he based himself at the Tenkawa Shrine, where Benzaiten, the goddess of the arts, is worshipped, performing the sacred drum for ceremonies in his function as priest and musician.
In 1987 he performed at the Montreux New Jazz Festival in Switzerland. In 1991 he toured as the musician for dancer Nasu Shizuno's tour of the performance "Amamishineri" in Okinawa, Rome, Paris and Greece. Currently he performs and records internationally with a number of bands including Wind Travelin' Band and Earth Tapestry. From 1996 to 1999 he participated in a duo project "Ametsuchi-no-Uta(Voices from The Heavens & The Earth)" with musician Ema (vocal, er-hu), producing 8 CDs and performing live throughout Japan.
Esoh also produced the Earth Music Festival annually in Osaka and Kyoto from 1993 to 1996. Now, he is creating a network of acoustic and ethnic musicians in Japan.
