KENTA NAKAGOME + SHOGO KOMATSUZAKI (Kodo Village, Sado Island, Japan)

Описание: RECORDINGS FROM SADO ISLAND
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KENTA NAKAGOME + SHOGO KOMATSUZAKI
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filmed by Vincent Moon
in Kodo Village, Sado Island, Japan, october 2025

It was a few years ago, in Paris— the Théâtre du Châtelet was hosting the Japanese taiko ensemble Kodo.
I was seated high above the stage, and like a spellbound child I let myself be carried away by the earth-shaking power of the legendary drummers from Sado Island.

That island echoed not only in my mind—
whenever I spoke its name to my friends in Japan, their eyes would lift toward the sky,
their ears seemed to stir with rolling drums.
Sado is a mythical territory, a weave of stories, a sound unlike any other in Japan.

I was invited there at the last moment, through Yoyo’s mysterious intervention— a curious sleight of destiny that plunged me into forty-eight hours of immersion in the island’s culture, off the coast of Niigata.

It all began on the first morning with an improvised exchange between Kenta and Shogo, two of the company’s performers, inside the great historic hall of Kodo, where we spun and spun, barely stopping.

This single sequence opens a series of films shot on Sado that I will be sharing in the coming days.

We hope you will enjoy this circle ✨

made with the help of Yoyo. and Yasu
with special thanks to Kodo company

https://www.kodo.or.jp/en
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kod%C5%...)
  / kodoheartbeat  

#livemusic #taiko #drums #sadoisland #japan #kodo

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ABOUT VINCENT MOON / PETITES PLANÈTES

Petites Planètes is an ongoing project composed of films, music recordings, live cinéma performances, and installations created by Vincent Moon in 2010. This work aims to explore the boundaries between cinema, music, and expanded forms of modern rituals. It is shared under a Creative Commons license BY-NC-SA, making it available to everybody to share and re-use.

This work has been made over the years with author and photographer Priscilla Telmon, independant producer, curator and author Julie Henoch - www.powapowa.ch - and the music agency Murailles Music - https://www.muraillesmusic.com/

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