Karin Nakagawa
Known for playing multiple styles across jazz, traditional, and contemporary music, Karin Nakagawa is a Japanese singer, composer, and player of the koto, a traditional stringed instrument and the national instrument of Japan. Born into a musical family, she began learning the instrument at age 12 and went on to study the traditional 13-string instrument at university, but developed expertise on the rarer 25-string koto. Nakagawa has performed in over a dozen countries across Europe, Africa, and Asia, recorded with the J-pop group Ikimono Gakari for their 2009 release Hajimari no Uta, and appears on the Japanese alt-rock band Porno Graffitti's 2010 DVD Trigger. She collaborated with double bassist Anders Jormin and vocalist/violinist/violist Lena Willemark for the improvisatory, traditional music-based Trees of Light, released by ECM in 2015.
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4 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Pasado en claro
Anders Jormin, Lena Willemark, Karin Nakagawa, Jon Fält
Jazz - Released by ECM Records on 20 Jan 2023
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - StereoBooklet available -
Trees Of Light
Lena Willemark, Karin Nakagawa, Anders Jormin
Jazz - Released by ECM Records on 6 Mar 2015
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - StereoBooklet available -
Tamayura
Karin Nakagawa, Hans Tutzer, Paolino Dalla Porta
Jazz - Released by Losen Records on 13 Nov 2020
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Poems for Orchestra
Anders Jormin, Lena Willemark, Karin Nakagawa
Jazz - Released by Losen Records on 26 Apr 2019
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo