YO - WEAVING ONE WORLD TR108    (listen to samples below)


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Yutaka Oyama - Tsugaru-shamisen  
Akihisa Kominato - Shakuhachi
Ty Burhoe - Tabla

I am proud to announce the new CD by my Tokyo based trio, YO. The word YO means “World Community / Our Generation / Songs of the People” and, in this spirit, we want to explore the evolution of these ancient traditions as they interface with today’s culture and the diverse minds of our world community. 

The music on this first album is purely acoustic and exposes the traditional sounds of each of our instruments while musically reaching into completely new territory. 

ABOUT THE FORMATION OF YO

Our first meeting was in 2012 at a concert in Tokyo. We were brought together spontaneously by the vision of a concert producer and found ourselves on stage, in a completely new musical setting. However, within the first few minutes of playing together, we knew that there was a very special creative spark between us.

At that time, we each were very busy in our own musical careers and didn’t know if we would have the chance to explore this unusual and exciting collaboration, but as fate would have it, we have been able to grow ourYO-ness with a few concerts in Japan and several US tours since that time.

This is our first installment of what we hope to be a series of album releases. We have many musical visions, sounds and special guests that we want to share with you in the coming albums, but for this first debut project we wanted to share the pure sounds of our three acoustic, very traditional instruments woven into the sound of YO.