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To hear of a Japanese counter-tenor may come as quite a surprise, but Yoshikazu Mera proves that he is an accomplished and extremely talented artist with a quality of voice that rivals the other Western counter-tenors such as Vyatcheslav Kagan-Paley and Daniel Taylor, among others. He offers us 21 Japanese folk and pop songs accompanied on the piano on Mother's Songs, all accompaniments being as simple as they can be. Yet, the quality of his voice, his singing, and his musicality are the most enchanting, delicate, and some might even say the most entrancing. What strikes with Mera is that at first his voice sounds more like a woman or a boy's voice rather than a counter-tenor, as is the case with Kagan-Paley or Taylor. The title of the CD is in fact the most suggestive -- Mother's Songs -- getting the feeling across of young boy singing for his mother. Yoshikazu Mera is much more than a boy with a nice voice, he has a remarkable mastery of his counter-tenor voice. A name to remember!
© Bruno Deschênes /TiVo
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Yoshikazu Mera, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Natsuko Uchiyama, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Tadasuke Ono, Composer
1997 BIS 1997 (P) BIS
Yoshinao Nakada, Composer - Yoshikazu Mera, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Natsuko Uchiyama, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
1997 BIS 1997 (P) BIS
Ryutaro Hirota, Composer - Yoshikazu Mera, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Natsuko Uchiyama, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
1997 BIS 1997 (P) BIS
Ikuma Dan, Composer - Yoshikazu Mera, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Natsuko Uchiyama, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
1997 BIS 1997 (P) BIS
Akatonbo (Kosaku Yamada)
Kosaku Yamada, Composer - Yoshikazu Mera, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Natsuko Uchiyama, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
1997 BIS 1997 (P) BIS
Minoru Kainuma, Composer - Yoshikazu Mera, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Natsuko Uchiyama, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
1997 BIS 1997 (P) BIS
Yoshinao Nakada, Composer - Yoshikazu Mera, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Natsuko Uchiyama, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
1997 BIS 1997 (P) BIS
Machiboke (Waiting in Vain) (Kosaku Yamada)
Kosaku Yamada, Composer - Yoshikazu Mera, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Natsuko Uchiyama, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
1997 BIS 1997 (P) BIS
Haseo Sugiyama, Composer - Yoshikazu Mera, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Natsuko Uchiyama, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
1997 BIS 1997 (P) BIS
Komoriuta (Lullaby) (Ikuma Dan)
Ikuma Dan, Composer - Yoshikazu Mera, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Natsuko Uchiyama, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
1997 BIS 1997 (P) BIS
Ikuma Dan, Composer - Yoshikazu Mera, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Natsuko Uchiyama, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
1997 BIS 1997 (P) BIS
KUNIHIKO HASHIMOTO, Composer - Yoshikazu Mera, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Natsuko Uchiyama, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
1997 BIS 1997 (P) BIS
Ryutaro Hirota, Composer - Yoshikazu Mera, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Natsuko Uchiyama, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
1997 BIS 1997 (P) BIS
Yoshikazu Mera, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Natsuko Uchiyama, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sada Yanada, Composer
1997 BIS 1997 (P) BIS
Yoshinao Nakada, Composer - Yoshikazu Mera, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Natsuko Uchiyama, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
1997 BIS 1997 (P) BIS
Fumihiko Fukui, Composer - Yoshikazu Mera, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Natsuko Uchiyama, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
1997 BIS 1997 (P) BIS
Kozaburo Hirai, Composer - Yoshikazu Mera, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Natsuko Uchiyama, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
1997 BIS 1997 (P) BIS
Ryoichi Hattori, Composer - Yoshikazu Mera, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Natsuko Uchiyama, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
1997 BIS 1997 (P) BIS
Yoshikazu Mera, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Natsuko Uchiyama, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Megumi Onaka, Composer
1997 BIS 1997 (P) BIS
Ryutaro Hirota, Composer - Yoshikazu Mera, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Natsuko Uchiyama, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
1997 BIS 1997 (P) BIS
Kojo no tsuki (Moon at a desolate castle) [text by B. Tsuchii] (Rentaro Taki)
Rentaro Taki, Composer - Yoshikazu Mera, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Natsuko Uchiyama, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - B. Tsuchii, Lyricist
1997 BIS 1997 (P) BIS
Album review
To hear of a Japanese counter-tenor may come as quite a surprise, but Yoshikazu Mera proves that he is an accomplished and extremely talented artist with a quality of voice that rivals the other Western counter-tenors such as Vyatcheslav Kagan-Paley and Daniel Taylor, among others. He offers us 21 Japanese folk and pop songs accompanied on the piano on Mother's Songs, all accompaniments being as simple as they can be. Yet, the quality of his voice, his singing, and his musicality are the most enchanting, delicate, and some might even say the most entrancing. What strikes with Mera is that at first his voice sounds more like a woman or a boy's voice rather than a counter-tenor, as is the case with Kagan-Paley or Taylor. The title of the CD is in fact the most suggestive -- Mother's Songs -- getting the feeling across of young boy singing for his mother. Yoshikazu Mera is much more than a boy with a nice voice, he has a remarkable mastery of his counter-tenor voice. A name to remember!
© Bruno Deschênes /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 21 track(s)
- Total length: 01:02:22
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Yoshikazu Mera Natsuko Uchiyama
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: BIS
- Genre: Classical Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred)
1997 BIS 1997 BIS
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