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Japanese Klezmer Band Jinta-la-Mvta Live @ Honkfest West in Seattle's Georgetown Neighborhood

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Channel: Len Davis · 2017 · Travel & Events

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Japanese Klezmer Band Jinta-la-Mvta rocks Honkfest West in Seattle's Georgetown Neighborhood. Brass and marching bands from around the world come to Seattle every June to perform in Honkfest, a free public festival of street music. https://www.honkfestwest.org http://www.cicala-mvta.com/profileenglish.shtml
Hailing from Tokyo, Japan, Cicala-Mvta (pronounced shikala moota) is a RIO/Avant-Prog band formed in 1994 by multi-instrumentalist Wataru Okuma (clarinet, bass clarinet, vocals), featuring Yoshiyuki Kawaguchi (saxophone), Yoshiki Sakurai (guitar), Takero Sakijima (tuba, recorder), Tatsuya Yoshida(drums, vocals), Keisuke Ota (violin, vocals), Yoshiaki Sato (accordion), Yoichiro Kita (trumpet), Akiko Watanabe (trombone) and Miwazo Kogure (ching-dong, gorosu).

Extremely versatile and omnivorous, Cicala Mvta integrates Japanese Chindon (street music) with Klezmer, Jazz, folk, punk, noise and traditional music from the world over.

The band name Cicala Mvta (mute cicada in Italian) is taken from an epitaph for the most famous Japanese street singer/songwriter from the 1920s, Soeda Azembo; “mute cicada” is an ironic expression for the sharp, loud, and poignant social satire Soeda offered through his songs.

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