Okaba Yayoi
Okaba Yayoi
Okaba Yayoi
Okaba Yayoi
Video
Video
Singer / instrumentalist
岡庭 矢宵
Yayoi Okaniwa
CD
CD
Sephardic Jews ~ The songs Spinned by soul ~
Ladino Jazz Project
Collaboration with Israeli jazz pianist Gilad Chatsav. Hybrid musical combination with Sephardic songs and jazz.
Yayoi (fest. Yayoi Okaniwa) by Andrey Orenstein
A mysterious, exciting new form of the sound woven together by electronic music and the traditional ancient sounds. Ukrainian Electro musician Andrey Orenstein collaboration with Yayoi Okaniwa. Album features a unique mixture of electronic music played alongside the Santur (Persian stringed instrument).
Ya Rayah, Qanun 3
A musical collaboration featuring the Qanun.3 (Masatoshi Kainuma, Michiko Suzuki, and Shingo Ali Masuda) with Yayoi Okaniwa on vocals singing the Sephardic song Durme, Durme
Jaffa Duets -Intimate Music by Ariel Lazarus-
A collection instrumental works by Israeli guitarist and Sephardic music researcher, Ariel Lazarus with vocals by Yayoi Okaniwa, featuring the Sephardic song La Serena.
Cantigas of the Virgin Mary, Anthonello
Compilation of ancient chants praising the Virgin Mary, which originated in medieval Spain. arranged by Alfonso X.
Music of the Tensho boy's Envoy: Mission to Europe 1582
During the European Renaissance, four Japanese boys, called the Tensho Boys Envoy, visited and traveled around Europe. Asbaptized by Catholics, they were welcomed throughout Europe. But after they returned to Japan, they were subjected to the new ban on Christians in Japan and at the mercy of their destiny...
El Congo
Codex "Trujillo del Peru"
Codex "Torjillo del Peru" was written in Peru in the 18th century. European baroque music reached in the South America. A sound created by the fusion of the Spanish court music and the South American indigenous music. The globalized music of the Baroque era, had a great influence on later Latin music.
Books & Interviews
Books / interview articles
Dialogue with cross-border musicians
15 fascinating dialogues with 30 musicians who stand at the forefront of the Japanese world music scene.Musicians selected by music writer Yoshito Sekiguchi.
Dialogue by
Wataru Okuma and Yayoi Okaniwa
“Klezmer and Sephardic music”
Learn Madrid and Castilla in 60 chapters
Chapter 22 Wandering Shechina: Jewish Mysticism / Kabbalah. Author: Yayoi Okaniwa
In Chapter 22, Yayoi Okaniwa gives an overview of the Kabbalah, the Jewish mysticism that Sephardic rabbis had cultivated in Southern France, Spain, and Israel.
LADIRINTO is an original term coined by Yayoi Okaniwa meaning "LAdirinth of Ladino". In this musical project. Okaniwa connects patterns of music with the Sephardic stories they tell. In April 2019, Ms. Okaniwa's LADIRINTO was featured in Latina Magazine. Interview conducted by Yoshito Sekiguchi.