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Suzumeno Tears
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Suzumeno Tears, based in Tokyo, is a Japanese traditional folk duo consists of Miyuki Sato on vocal and kaval, a singer who specialises in Bulgarian traditional folk music and dance, and Agatha on vocal, gut guitar and frame drum, a singer-songwriter who provides all the arrangements for their repartoire and the owner of DOYASA! Records label. (Suzume means sparrow in Japanease, and "sparrow’s tears" is an expression that means “small amount of money”) 


The both learned Goshu Ondo at "Monogatari Uchuno-kai" under the name of the legendary Ondo singer, Tadamaru Sakuragawa I. Other than "Polyphony Goshu Ondo" they sing Japanese and the Balkan traditional folk songs in polyphony.


Their performing style varies from the smallest duo, or the trio adding the singer, Remon Nakanishi, or with the band with Yoshio Kuge on drums and Masanori Hattori on contrabass. Also they are the member of "Remon Nakanishi & the Iezuto Band".


They released their 1st full album "Sparrow's Arrows Fly so High" from DOYASA! Records and it's been widly picked up on radios and other media in Japan and abroad. 
The album was selected as no.1 album in the category of Polular Song/J-Pop by Music Magazine's "Best Album 2024".

Performance Hisitory:
May,2024 Mori,Michi,Ichiba 2024 (Aichi)
July,2024 Yamato-cho Hachiman-shrine Dai Bon Odori Kai 
Aug,2024 SUKIYAKI Meets the World (Toyama)
Aug,2024 Sumida Kinchi-cho Kawachi Ondo Dai Bon Odori
Sep,2024 Hashinoshita World Music Festival (Aichi)
Oct,2024 Sumiyume Odori Gyroretsu (Tokyo)
Nov,2024 JAZZ ART Sengawa (Tokyo)



 

 

 

 

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Suzumeno Tears (Suzume means sparrow in Japanease, and sparrow’s tears is an expression of a “small amount of money”), based in Tokyo, is a duo of Miyuki Sato on vocal and kaval, and Agatha on vocal, gut guitar and percussion.

 

Miyuki Sato is a singer who specializes in Bulgarian folk songs, who was initially invited to the culture via folk dancing, which she still does. Agatha has been a singer-songwriter ever since she had got hooked in the Beatles in her early teens, and is a DOYASA! Records’ label owner. She produced Remon Nakanishi’s album “Hinano Iezuto” (2022) in which the selected north-eastern Japanese folk songs (minyo) are variously re-harmonized.

They both leaned Goshu Ondo in Tadamaru Sakuragawa I’s Goshu Ondo Correspondence Course “Monogatari Uchuno-kai”. Goshu Ondo is a Kansai area’s traditional ballad singing style which is sung and danced along at Bon Odori, summer festivals to console the spirits of the dead.

One day at that class when Miyuki was singing, Agatha abruptly started to sing along with her but in a different key. Since then, they have increased the number of polyphony repertoire of not only Goshu Ondo, but also other Japanese folk songs and Balkan folk songs.

They released their 1st full album "Sparrow's Arrows Fly so High" in March 2024.

© DOYASA! RECORDS 2018

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