Maïa Barouh

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Maïa Barouh ( Waves Vienna 2015)

Maïa Barouh ( Japanese マ イ ア ・ バ ル ー , Maia Barū ; born 1985 in Tokyo Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese-French singer-songwriter and flautist. In her songs, she combines musical traditions of Japan, especially folk songs, with electronic music and jazz .

Life

Barouh is the daughter of the Japanese painter Atsuko Ushioda and the French chanson singer and author Pierre Barouh . She spent her childhood and youth in both countries, traveling with her parents, often accompanying her father on concert tours. In addition to classical European music and jazz, early musical influences were the live concerts. As her first instrument, she learned to play the flute .

Her singing technique derives partly from the way of singing that she got to know at the age of 18 when she accompanied her father on a tour on the island of Amami-Ōshima . Inspired by the traditional singing there ( Shima-uta ), which she describes as similar to yodelling , the overtone singing of Mongolia or the Iranian Tahrir , she created her own style. She also uses elements from the singing traditions of flamenco , the Middle East and African music . In the same years she joined a Chindon'ya group of street musicians in Tokyo , where she played the saxophone. In France, on the other hand, in 2005 she founded Cabaret Shinjuku , a revue touring the country to present the most eccentric young musicians from Japan. In 2007 she released the album Kusamakura with recordings of these artists and began to work on her first own productions.

Maïa Barouh (2015)

Barouh explains her intense focus on the folk music of Japan from the deep impression that the Tōhoku earthquake in 2011 with the destruction caused by the tsunami and the subsequent nuclear disaster in Fukushima left her with. It prompted her to explore and sing the music of the Fukushima region and the north of Japan , which she says is little known even in Japan itself, in order to preserve the cultural heritage of this so devastated region in her own way. In addition to her own compositions, her repertoire also includes interpretations of traditional pieces such as Jongala about a bloody war in northern Japan or Kane Ren Ren , originally a folk song of the Ainu .

In Japan Barouh performed with musicians such as Cyro Baptista , Arto Lindsay , Kip Hanrahan and Yasuaki Shimizu . In the early 2010s she moved to France, where she worked with Nouvelle Vague , among others .

Discography

  • Kazumi et Maïa L'Amitié (2004)
  • maïa and maïa 2 (2008)
  • Chikyū o Totte yo! ( 地球 を と っ て よ! ; 2009)
  • Love human tracks (2010)
  • Kodama (2014)

Web links

Commons : Maïa Barouh  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b maia-zoku.com: Profiles
  2. ↑ frusion.co.uk: Concert Artist: Maïa Barouh
  3. ↑ Songlines , Issue 105 (January / February 2015, page 24): Introducing… Maïa Barouh

Remarks

  1. ↑ Year of birth according to Bibliothèque nationale de France , ark: / 12148 / cb169925546 / PUBLIC , uncertain
personal data
SURNAME Barouh, Maïa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barū, Maia; マ イ ア ・ バ ル ー (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese-French singer-songwriter and flautist
DATE OF BIRTH 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo Prefecture , Japan