Koharu
12/29/2007 @ 12:00 am
Check out this young lady’s hot licks on the accordian.
Koharu is 19 years old and is also a member of a street band named Minority Orchestra (Japanese page).
If you are lucky, you can catch her live at Tokyo’s Ueno Park.
Wow, she’s good!
Accordions have a goofy connotation in the US, I guess because of the way they sound…but I’ve always been dumbfounded at their complexity. I mean, look at all those buttons! And then you have to squeeze it at the same time! Amazing.
December 29th, 2007 at 1:04 amI think Lawrence Welk and Myron Floren and all the polka guys that were big in the ’50s ruined accordions for America, but I’ve since seen 2 things to make me rethink the accordion. The end sequence of Fellini’s “La Strada” and now Koharu.
December 29th, 2007 at 2:00 am[...] I enjoyed this video of 19-year-old Koharu playing accordion. She’s in the Japanese street brass band Minority Orchestra, shown here. Link [...]
December 29th, 2007 at 5:48 am[...] I enjoyed this video of 19-year-old Koharu playing accordion. She’s in the Japanese street brass band Minority Orchestra, shown here. Link [...]
December 29th, 2007 at 7:04 am[...] I enjoyed this video of 19-year-old Koharu playing accordion. She’s in the Japanese street brass band Minority Orchestra, shown here. Link [...]
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December 29th, 2007 at 10:34 amNice.
Accordion rocks.
Check this out also:
December 31st, 2007 at 4:52 amhttp://video.google.ca/videosearch?q=%22Vitaly+Dmitriev%22
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