Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on December 2011

Japanese minyo folk music has seen a great resurgence of late, but the question remains how to bring it into the 21st century. Hidden Dragon is a project that attempts to create a new folk music by reconstructing the Japanese folk music vocabulary. In other words, they play traditional instruments in untraditional ways. The group consists of percussionists/vocalists Shigeri Kitsu and Kazuki Kunihiro along with tsugaru shamisen (traditional banjo of northern Japan) player Nobuto Yamanaka. It recently returned from touring Central Asia with the Japan Foundation.

Musicasa, Jan 12 (listing).