Hibari Misora With Yoshio Kimura = 美空ひばり 木村好夫と共に

Hibari Misora With Yoshio Kimura

美空ひばり 木村好夫と共に

Instrumental music in the style of Enka is very popular in Japan. Enka songs easy to sing, so the number of tool is often used in the performance of karaoke. The main baggage was instrumental enka accumulated session musicians recording studios in the 60-80s. Typically, this is done in the orchestral arrangement with explicit solo instruments: saxophone, guitar, drums, etc. The popularity of this genre defines certain "standards" for recurrence of the same songs by different artists, that is, along the lines of "standards" in jazz. The records are very rare. History In the decades 50s have been restored and outswing pre-war songs. They were merged with the blues to create a game 'mood'. Distinctly Japanese melodies blended with Western string orchestra and some Japanese instruments such as shamisen. For example: Isao Hayashi, Toshiro Okamoto, Hachiro Kasuga, Michiya Mihashi, Hiroshi Mifune, Yujiro Ishihara, Chiyoko Shimakura, Hibari Misora, Haruo Minami, Hideo Murata, Peggy Hayama, Hiroshi Mizuhara, Keiko Matsuyama and Yukio Hashi. 60, are believed to be the best of the golden age enka.