{"id":95,"date":"2008-03-27T17:08:06","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T01:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/?p=95"},"modified":"2008-03-27T17:08:06","modified_gmt":"2008-03-28T01:08:06","slug":"chieko-mori-new-school-koto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/?p=95","title":{"rendered":"Chieko Mori &#8211; New School Koto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/chieko_mori.jpg\" title=\"chieko_mori.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/chieko_mori.jpg\" alt=\"chieko_mori.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few of you may already know the name Chieko Mori if you follow either John Zorn&#8217;s <a href=\"www.tzadik.com\/\">Tzadik<\/a> releases or, more likely, the recent James Blackshaw curated &#8220;The Garden of Forking Paths&#8221; compilation on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.importantrecords.com\/\">Important Records<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s especially interesting to me, as a koto player, is the <strong>extremely<\/strong> small community of non-traditional players in existence considering how versatile the instrument is. Including Mori-san, I can count maybe 3 or 4. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japanimprov.com\/blarner\/index.html\">Brett Larner<\/a> is another, having released some recordings through the stellar <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.japanimprov.com\/\">Improvised Music from Japan<\/a> label.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/mp3s\/blog\/01-spiral_wave.mp3\">Sprial Wave<\/a> off The Garden of Forking Paths comp.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/chiekomori\">Chieko&#8217;s MySpace<\/a> page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few of you may already know the name Chieko Mori if you follow either John Zorn&#8217;s Tzadik releases or, more likely, the recent James Blackshaw curated &#8220;The Garden of Forking Paths&#8221; compilation on Important Records. What&#8217;s especially interesting to me, as a koto player, is the extremely small community of non-traditional players in existence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}