New Package Plan

Film Music Concert by Silent Film Accompaniment Music Orchestra Colored Monotone

Colored Monotone
Colored Monotone specializes in live performances of silent film music using a mixed instrumentation of Western and Japanese instruments, comprised of piano, flute, violin, taiko drum (percussion) and shamisen. Since garnering rave reviews for its musical production and performance for the screening of D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation at the 1987 Tokyo International Film Festival, the ensemble has assiduously studied Japan's unique craft of silent film music. Colored Monotone performs extensively throughout Japan with benshi Sawato Midori. (Orchestra of five musicians)

Yuasa Joichi
After being involved in the music production and performance for The Birth of a Nation directed by D.W. Griffith screened at the 1987 Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF), he has engaged himself in the restoration and production of the once lost orchestral music for silent films. He later formed the music ensemble Colored Monotone. He has restored, composed and arranged a number of both Japanese and Western film music, and is giving performances across Japan together with benshi Sawato Modori. This year, he has released Rock Guitarist no tame no J.S. Bach Kyokushu (A Collection of J.S. Bach Pieces for Rock Guitarists) from Yamaha Music Media Corporation. He also teaches guitar at ESP Musical Academy.

Performance fee varies with the size, available equipment, purpose and other factors of the concert. Please feel free to contact us for more details.

For inquiries, please contact:
Matsuda Film Productions (contact person: Matsuda)
3-18-4 Towa, Adachi-ku, Tokyo 120-0003, Japan
Tel: 03-3605-9981
Fax: 03-3605-9982
E-mail: katuben@attglobal.net
http://www.matsudafilm.com