
Music Mar 26, 2019
Michiyo Yagi pushes the boundaries of traditional music with her koto playing
by Katherine Whatley
I'm sitting in Koen-Dori Classics, a darkened club in the basement of a church on Koen-dori, in Tokyo's Shibuya district. The audience is small, seated in a few rows facing the performers at the front. Silence, then the performance begins. Textured sounds emanate from ...