Kato Toru

[Jody Kruskal]

I just stumbled on Kato Toru, a Japanese musician playing a 40 button Anglo in a very entertaining and harmonic style. Many of his selections are from Hayao Miyazaki's wonderful animation movies. He has a youtube channel with lots of videos. Check him out! Here is one:

 

[Geoff Wooff]

Yes, an interesting style and thanks for the link!

Geoff.

[Graham Collicutt]

I just stumbled on Kato Toru, a Japanese musician playing a 40 button Anglo in a very entertaining and harmonic style. Many of his selections are from Hayao Miyazaki's wonderful animation movies. He has a youtube channel with lots of videos. Check him out! Here is one:

 

 

Following your link I spotted this, a good photo to add to your collection.

 

 

Graham

[Takayuki YAGI]

FYI, here is a part of his website about accordion and concertina (has many contents and some pages have English translation).

http://www.geocities.jp/cato1963/acco-concertina.html

He occasionally give a lecture about anglo concertina in Tokyo.

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Taka

[JimLucas]

Following your link I spotted this, a good photo to add to your collection.

Nice photo, though aside from concertinas it has nothing to do with the music or musicians in the YouTube number it appears with. I believe it's Peter Honri in a scene from the movie Oliver!

[Anglo-Irishman]

I just stumbled on Kato Toru, a Japanese musician playing a 40 button Anglo in a very entertaining and harmonic style. Many of his selections are from Hayao Miyazaki's wonderful animation movies. He has a youtube channel with lots of videos. Check him out! Here is one:

 

 

Thanks for the link!

 

A couple of links later, I found

. Interesting for those who are wondering about the concertina in jazz/ragtime. I particularly like the beautifully solid plectrum banjo ...

(sigh!) They don't make music like that nowadays. Or if any of you do, please let me know!

 

Cheers,

John

[Rod]

I just stumbled on Kato Toru, a Japanese musician playing a 40 button Anglo in a very entertaining and harmonic style. Many of his selections are from Hayao Miyazaki's wonderful animation movies. He has a youtube channel with lots of videos. Check him out! Here is one:

 

 

Thanks for the link!

 

A couple of links later, I found

. Interesting for those who are wondering about the concertina in jazz/ragtime. I particularly like the beautifully solid plectrum banjo ...

(sigh!) They don't make music like that nowadays. Or if any of you do, please let me know!

 

Cheers,

John

 

 

Yes John. Great stuff. 'One of these Days' is perfectly feasable on my 36 button Anglo. One of my many favourites. In so far as I am concerned the tune has to manage without that splendid banjo backing but there are plenty of ways around that to compensate.

 

( All the best music was composed long before I was born ! )