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Tea ceremony


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Tadashi Togawa

 Genre: Funk

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"Tea ceremony" is Japanese traditional culture.
There is the history more than 400 years.
Spring and autumn.
"Tea party" is held in Japanese each place.

There was a tea party in the autumn buddhist temple of before.
I attended the tea party for the first time.
Seeing, and doing are the first time.
I do not have the knowledge of manners.
The gesture of the surrounding participant was mimicked.
The cold sweat flowed to the back in me.
I came to want to run away.

Participants are all woman.
"Tea ceremony" is becoming woman's culture in Japan.

The artwork is "Kon-nichi-an" of "Urasenke".
"Urasenke" is a grand tea master.
It is specified for the important cultural asset in the country.
It is ownership of the descendant of "Rikyu".

The sound that rings back of this song is "SUIKIN-KUTSU."
"SUIKIN-KUTSU" is "Cave of the harp of water".
It is ahead of "TYA-SITSU" that invites the guest.
"TYA-SITSU" is tearoom.
There is "TSUKU-BAI" there.
Water flows from the bamboo tube in "TSUKU-BAI".
Then, the guest purifies his hand.
This water drips in "SUIKIN-KUTSU".
The mind becomes refreshing because of the tone of the flowing water.
A warm mind of the master who entertains the guest is here.
This is said, "FU-RYU".
"FU-RYU"is mind of elegance.

The bell of the start of this song is a temple bell of the buddhist temple in
Japan.
It is a sound in Japan in which any town can be heard.

This song expresses the cold sweat of my initial experience.
When strained and shamefulness,cold sweat wets the armpit.
Next time, after i studies a little more, it attends.
However, the tea ceremony is pleasant.
I wishes prosperous more.
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Song Stats
Hits: 1718
Comments: 20
Fans: 3
Plays: 225
Downloads: 66
Votes: 12
Uploaded: Jun 22, 2006 - 06:42:43 AM
Last Updated: Jun 22, 2006 - 06:42:43 AM Last Played: Nov 06, 2009 - 06:54:59 AM
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Comments
composerclark said 1234 days ago (June 22nd, 2006)
Funky Monkey!
Tadashi, you are a composing machine! I don%u2019t know how you manage
to produce so many wonderful and fully professional tracks so quickly!
(Perhaps you don%u2019t have children?)

The keyboard part reminds me of Herbie Hancock. Very funky. Is the
Tea Ceremony funky? This takes an unexpected turn in the middle
when things quiet down for a time, but I really like that part. I also
really like all the little bell sounds that you have placed strategically
throughout this composition.

It%u2019d be cool to have someone sing the main funky theme with no
words, just scat singing. A very, very, fine track! 10-10-10-10
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Tadashi Togawa said 1234 days ago (June 22nd, 2006)
Funky Monkey!
Hi,Mr.Clark Ross
Are you do invite the polar bear and doing the tea party?
I am always encouraged by a warm comment from your glacier side.
Thank you very much.

The little bell sounds is a sound of the bottle laid to a Japanese garden.
It is a sound that the drop of water drips and falls into a big
bottle.
It is a very beautiful tone.
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Godchaser said 1234 days ago (June 22nd, 2006)
Swingin' Soul
Very very cool track-very interesting voicings and as always excellent
musicanship and production-first rate-Two thumbs way up!
-Godchaser
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Tadashi Togawa said 1234 days ago (June 22nd, 2006)
Swingin' Soul
Godchaser,
Thank you for listening to my song.
I wish to express my gratitude to you.

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said 1234 days ago (June 22nd, 2006)
Cool arrangement
This is a pretty cool arrangement. Sounds very much like a video game,
please don't take that as a bad thing, it's meant as a good compliment. A
lot of people make alot of money with video game songs. Very well
mixed and put together. Good job.
Tadashi Togawa said 1234 days ago (June 22nd, 2006)
Cool arrangement
Jonathan,
Thank you for the comment from Moore.
This is not video game songs as said by you.
This is a song of "Tea party".
I wish to express my gratitude for your kind word.

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Ed Hannifin said 1234 days ago (June 22nd, 2006)
Let me see. It's summer's eve...
Let's try this:

hitori nomu cha
mo tsuitachi zo
ao sudare

--Issa (1817)

Or this one, in English:

on the one ton temple bell
a moon-moth, folded into sleep,
sits still.

--Buson

I had to take in the total impression of your composition, Tadashi. I
have never heard a tea ceremony so fast!

I decided it was the tea steam, and the dancing bubbles...

Someday, though, Tadashi, I will enjoy hearing you work your magic at
a slow tempo... I tend to be a slow moving and slow thinking person...

I always enjoy your guitar playing, especially. This reminds me of
fusion records my roommates had years and years ago, such as John
McLaughlin, Jeff Beck or Return to Forever. I really enjoy how you
weave those bell-like tones throughout the composition. I love bells...


Ed


Tadashi Togawa said 1234 days ago (June 22nd, 2006)
Let me see. It's summer's eve...
ED,
Thank you for commenting to my song.

drinking tea alone
on the month's first day...
green bamboo blinds

Issa is drinking tea in the one person veranda.
It is nonchalant,a green bamboo blind enters the view of Issa.
Issa notices on the day it of beginning of the month today.

A green bamboo blind is a sunshade of summer.
It builds it near the window in a Japanese house.

The start of summer is blue.
Issa expresses the season by blue of the bamboo.

The sound of the bell of the buddhist temple in Japan is very
wonderful.
It meditates the time of the reverberation.
However, it is done by nothing.

My study of "Tea party" was insufficient.
I was panicked.
This is a song in my mental status.
The habitue is slow pleasantness"Tea ceremony".
I panicked at "Tea ceremony".
Thank you very much.
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jiguma said 1233 days ago (June 24th, 2006)
I must drink more tea!
Another very clever, very skillful and very entertaining post from you
Tadashi-san! This one caught me unawares, as it seems only a few
days since you last uploaded. It never ceases to amaze me that you
are able to do these songs so quickly - especially when they are so
intricate and even more especially when you do them in GB2.
One of my favourites of yours,
Neil
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Tadashi Togawa said 1233 days ago (June 24th, 2006)
I must drink more tea!
Hello,Neil

Is Australia cool?
Japan is hot.
I wish to express my gratitude for listening.

The FIFA World Cup.
Congratulations of an Australian team on the second-round berth.

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jiguma said 1233 days ago (June 24th, 2006)
I must drink more tea!
Thanks Tadashi - we hope to play well against Italy! It is winter here, but I
had lunch in shorts and T-shirt on our front deck. A very nice day.
Neil

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Tadashi Togawa said 1230 days ago (June 27th, 2006)
I must drink more tea!
It is a good climate.

Fighting with an Italian team was regrettable.
Australia fought well.
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TobinMueller said 1228 days ago (June 28th, 2006)
Sharing what's in your head
I hope the next experience at tea is more peaceful. And I hope your wish
for prosperity is fulfilled. Nonetheless, I devilishly wish the women in
attendance could have heard the music in your head. Perhaps more backs
could have sweated alongside you. You could start a new tradition.
Thank you for sharing what's in your head with us, always.
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Tadashi Togawa said 1226 days ago (June 30th, 2006)
Sharing what's in your head
Mr.TobinMueller
Thank you indeed for attending the tea ceremony.
I welcome you as a master.
Now green tea please.

I think that the man should be familiar with the tea ceremony more.
In the rest of the mind, it is fit.
However, manners are formal.
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gregd said 1227 days ago (June 29th, 2006)
Don't stop!
I found this track deep and interesting. You did a very fine job
composing, recording, and producing this track. For the sake of my
ears, this community, and the music industry in general don't stop
making music!

I love the drum and bass percussion, Herbie Hancock synths, and Joe
Satriani guitar.

Thanks for sharing this track.

-greg
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gregd said 1227 days ago (June 29th, 2006)
Don't stop!
I found this track deep and interesting. You did a very fine job
composing, recording, and producing this track. For the sake of my
ears, this community, and the music industry in general don't stop
making music!

I love the drum and bass percussion, Herbie Hancock synths, and Joe
Satriani guitar.

Thanks for sharing this track.

-greg
Check out my latest song called 08nov08
Tadashi Togawa said 1226 days ago (June 30th, 2006)
Don't stop!
gregd,
Thank you very much!!!
Come to my tea ceremony, and I wish to express my gratitude.
Please drink up green tea.
A bitter taste will change into the loved taste before long.

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perceptualvortex said 1218 days ago (July 8th, 2006)
I would
also be sweating at a tea ceremony. I'm not so good with that kind of formality! I really like the drum solo, and the suikin-kutsu sound in there. The very electronic melodies are beautiful, and as usual you have a way with making complex arrangements sound natural and intriguing. Very cool, Tadashi.
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datafunk said 1202 days ago (July 24th, 2006)
acid ceremony
that was fresh as an ice tea
and powerful as a double expresso
tadashi, you're the master of the ceremony
tydelwave said 1088 days ago (November 15th, 2006)
I wish I knew...
I wish I knew the intricacies what a cool song. The beginning and the title threw me off a bit, but I really like it.
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