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Kodo at Zellerbach Hall, February 3, 2013
Kodo
One Earth Tour 2103: Legend
Zellerbach Hall Auditorium
U.C. Berkeley
Bancroft Way at Telegraph Ave, Berkeley, CA
7 PM, Sunday, February 3, 2013
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Set One
[7:06 PM lights down, announcements]
- Kaden (Tamasaburo Bando, 2012)
- Monochrome (Maki Ishii, 1977)
- Ibuki (Motofumi Yamaguchi, 1996)
[7:48 PM set ends]
Set Two
[8:08 PM lights down]
- Onidaiko (traditional)
- Tsukimachi (Tamasaburo Bando & Shogo Yoshii)
- O-daiko (traditional)
- Yatai-bayashi (traditional)
[8:47 PM set ends]
Encore
- (unidentified work)
[8:52 PM show ends]
Performers
- Kenzo Abe
- Akiko Ando
- Tetsumi Hanaoka
- Yosuke Inoue
- Mitsuru Ishizuka
- Shogo Komatsuzaki
- Tsuyoshi Maeda
- Masami Miyazaki
- Masayuki Sakamoto
- Yuta Sumiyoshi
- Rai Tateishi
- Masaru Tsuji
- Shogo Yoshii
- Tamasaburo Bando: artistic director.
Notes
Ting and I enjoy a simple pre-show dinner with our friend Nancy at Smart Alec's on Telegraph, watching the latter part of the Superbowl debacle on the big screens.
It seems that tonight's show is performed entirely unamplified – there are certainly no mics visible on the performers or their drums, and the volume ranges creditably from a whisper to a thundering din.
I'm surprised to see that within each set, the pieces are run together without pause. Although this might make some sense to the performers, it leaves me wondering if I'd be able to tell the difference between the pieces without the visual cue of a fadeout in the stage lighting.
The initial piece on the second half – Onidaiko – features a pair of particularly grotesque demon-mask clad performers. Very cool!
O-daiko spotlights a succession of performers wearing only a shimekomi – loincloth – while bashing away on the miya-daiko, a great big festival drum nearly four feet across and weighing about 800 pounds, but my vote for most-heroic performance goes to the guys soloing during the final segment, Yatai-Bayashi, who pounded away on barrel-sized drums from a crunch position – abs of steel indeed!
I was happy that the exuberance of the crowd prompted an encore – it's always a blessing to get a little more, right? – and I thought it especially interesting that the drummer whaling away on the biggest drum appeared to be using a baseball bat for a drumstick.
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