Ondo is a type of Japanese Folk Music often heard during Obon festivals. It has a distinct 2/2 rhythm For many outsiders, Japanese music is associated entirely with cheap, disposable bubblegum pop, of which there is plenty. ... YOSAKOI1(2004 August at Enomoto Primary School Osaka) Yosakoi2(2004 August at Enomoto Primary School Osaka) O-bon is a Japanese Buddhist holiday to honor the departed spirits of ones ancestors. ... Rhythm (Greek ρυθμός = tempo) is the variation of the duration of sounds or other events over time. ...
One of the biggest developments in koto music occurred at the end of the 17th century, with the founding of a new style of koto music, based on existing shamisen forms.
Ondo is a generic term for folk songs that are often used to accompany the dances of the obon festival.
As an 'unmilitarized' street music, chindon is related to Jewish klezmer music, New Orleans brass bands and wind and percussion ensembles from China and south east Asia.
There is however a myriad of brilliant music, rooted in Japanese tradition and brought screaming into the present, that has remained buried somewhere under the quagmire of monstrosity and magic that is today's Japan.
Kawachi Ondo was originally music to accompany the bon-odori (festival of the dead) in Kawachi, a suburb of Osaka.
Kakin Ondo is not Kawachi Ondo at all, although the vocal style unmistakably is. Driven by a reggafied beat, the story tells the fortunes of an 'arbeiter', in search of part time work, and was used in a TV commercial which brought Kikusuimaru national fame.
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