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KM: Put simply, I love music that is beautiful. Which is why my favourite music is that made by troubadours. There is something ineffably beautiful about the voices and ensembles in that music. The bassist in AMT, Atsushi Tsuyama, taught me that the roots of troubadour music are found in the Occitan region of France. Tsuyama is well known in Japan for his encyclopaedic knowledge of European trad music. As I see it, in Occitan trad music we can catch fleeting glimpses of extreme melodies, and the power of song demonstrated in this music carries a far greater weight than in other musics. This truly is the music of the heavens. Recently I have become fascinated by the music of Sardinia. If Occitan music is the sound of heaven, then Sardinian music is the sound of the earth.






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