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I found this last night after work, cause YouTube recommended it to me. And…wow this is really cool. It’s “Moonlight Densetsu” played on traditional Japanese instruments!!

Featured here are two koto players (the sort of horizontal harp thing), some kind of drum player, a shakuhachi (a type of flute) player, and center stage, a shamisen player.

It’s pretty amazing what they can do with these instruments. I was able to hear the koto and shakuhachi duo Blue Kanon perform live at a festival I went to last year at a local Japanese garden, as well as a taiko performance by a different group (those things are LOUD; my video doesn’t even quite do it justice). It was really cool, though.

They can do a lot with a shamisen as well, which I first learned from the Yoshida Brothers’ famous song “Kodo (Inside the Sun Remix),” otherwise known as the catchy tune behind Nintendo’s “Wii Would Like to Play” commercials.

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)