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Summer2025 Europe Tour in July & Japan Tour in August!
New Solo Album Let's Keep Walking & Quartet Album Fly With the Wings
New Album Release "Let's Keep Walking" "Fly With the Wings"
M/Vs & Album "A Woman With a Purple Wig"
Album & Book "Goshu Ondo Suite"
New Album
"Let's Keep Walking "
Blau Records 2024
Eri Yamamoto Solo
Piano, Melodica, Voice, Frame Drum, Ocean Drum, Tambourine
& Compositions by Eri Yamamoto
-Let's Keep Walking is Eri's third solo piano album. She recorded it in Spain, and added several instruments to the
piano tracks. Her message on this recording is: "No matter what, let's keep moving forward."
New Album
"Fly With the Wings"
Malakala Music 2024
Eri Yamamoto Quadraphonic
Eri Yamamoto, piano, melodica, voice & compositions
Chad Fowler, sax& flute
Kevin Thomas, bass
Ikuo Takeuchi, drums
-Fly With the Wings is Eri's newly formed quartet, Quadraphonic's debut album. Hearing Chad’s soulful Memphis saxophone and Kevin’s fat bass sound, made Eri feel they’d be perfect for her new quartet. Along with her long-time creative drummer Ikuo.
"We are Quadraphonic: not named for 70’s hi-fi, but meaning four sounds coming together as one."
"Colors of the Night"
Malakala Music 2023
Eri Yamamoto, piano & compositions
William Parker, bass
Ikuo Takeuchi, drums
-Colors of the Night is a live recording of Eri's special trio with legendary bassist/composer William Parker and drummer Ikuo Takeuchi. Eri has long associations with both, and this recording reveals the special chemistry that they shared at the November 2022 concert at Clemente Flamboyan Theater in New York’s Lower East Side. The music is vibrant, colorful, and spontaneous, as the trio brings to life Eri’s evocative and memorable songs.-
"A Woman With a Purple Wig"
Music Videos & Album
Eri's award-winning Music Video,
"A Woman With a Purple Wig"
Another Music Video
Colors are Beautiful
from the same album
"A Woman with a Purple Wig"
Album
Eri Yamamoto Trio
"A Woman With a Purple Wig"
Eri Yamamoto, piano & voice
David Ambrosio, bass
Ikuo Takeuchi, drums
*Chorus: Rika Yamamoto, Bruce Barth, Ikuo Takeuchi, Rich Lamb
All compositions & lyrics by Eri Yamamoto
(Mahakala Music)
< Lyrics >
A WOMAN WITH A PURPLE WIG
(music & words by Eri Yamamoto)
One day, I bought a wig on the internet.
My favorite color - purple wig.
It’s only twenty bucks - purple wig.
Did you know that a purple wig has a special power?
It hides my head, so you don’t see my real hair.
The sunglasses hide my eyes, so you don’t know what I’m thinking.
The mask covers my mouth and nose, it’s perfect.
I hope you don’t see me at all.
I’m just a woman. Don’t hurt me.
Don’t hurt me.
Someday, I wanna walk like a free bird.
Just wanna sing to the world.
I’m just a human. Don’t hurt me.
Don’t hurt me.
COLORS ARE BEAUTIFUL
(music & words by Eri Yamamoto)
Colors are beautiful, don’t you think?
Colors are beautiful.
Red rose, black diamond
Yellow moon, white snow
Brown earth, and blue sky.
I see so many colors in my palette.
Orange leaves, gold sunset
Purple night, silver stars
Grey clouds, and green eyes.
I see so many colors in this world.
Colors are beautiful, don’t you think?
Colors are beautiful.
All colors are beautiful.
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Colors are Beautiful Musical score
Goshu Ondo Suite 江州音頭組曲
for SATB and Jazz Piano Trio
Album & Musical Score
Goshu Ondo Suite is Eri's extended work for SATB choir and jazz trio. It is based on a traditional circle dance song from Shiga, Japan, near Kyoto, and she expanded it into a nine-movement suite. It encompasses the music of many cultures: Japanese folk dance, American jazz, gospel, and blues; even Congolese drum rhythms.
Goshu Ondo Suite was premiered and recorded live by The Eri Yamamoto Trio & Choral Chameleon in 2018, and the recording is available on AUM Fidelity records. Eri has since performed the suite with multiple choirs in Japan and Spain, always ending the concerts by inviting the audience to joyfully join in the traditional dance.
Eri Yamamoto Trio
featuring Choral Chameleon
World Premiere Concert in Manhattan, NYC.
November 17 &18, 2018.
Full concert video on YouTube.
Album
Goshu Ondo Suite
Eri Yamamoto Trio & Choral Chameleon
This large choral work composed by Eri features the award-winning Choral Chameleon and the Eri Yamamoto Trio, in a joyful meeting of musical cultures. (AUM Fidelity)
Musical Score
Goshu Ondo Suite
for SATB and Jazz Piano Trio
Paperback on sale on amazon!
-Goshu Ondo Suite has a strong jazz element, the vocal parts do not require jazz experience. The lyrics are in Japanese, but very simple and fun to sing in English or Spanish transliteration.-
In this unique World Premiere, East and West collide in an evening-length fusion of New York jazz and Japanese traditional culture, Eri Yamamoto has created an unique choral experience - Goshu Ondo Suite – which reimagines a centuries-old, revered Japanese tradition through the lenses of both jazz and choral music.
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