Kokia in Poland! Japanese Grand Japanese singer KOKIA zawitać plans for our country. Concert as part of its European tour will be held June 17 in Poznan in the club Blue Note Jazz Club . In previous years, occurred mainly in Paris. This time we will visit to Germany, Belgium and Polish! Ticket prices in advance are 60PLN.
The route today is as follows:
- 06/12/2009 - La Cigale (Paris)
- 13/06/2009 - special concert on board the "La Patache" on the Seine, only 150 tickets available
- 14/06/2009 - La Cigale (Paris)
- 17.06.2009 - Blue Note Jazz Club (New York)
- 19/06/2009 - Le Botanique (Brussels)
- 20.06.2009 - Cologne
She is known for, among others openingu and the ending theme to the game "Tales of Innocence" and openingu to "Gunslinger Girl - Il Teatrino". Its CDs are sold in France. It is one of the most talented singers of Japan. He has 19 singles, 10 albums and two DVDs, and already the light of day on March 18 will see the puck, "KOKIA ∞ ~ Akiko ~ balance."
Describing host of sparrows Albatros Publishing editor wrote:
"samurai epic story of impossible love theme, referring to the climate of the famous Shogun by James Clavell. Distributed nineteenth-century Japan, the world of the samurai, geisha, ninja assassins and Zen masters. "
All true, except Clavell. With all due respect to Mr. Matsuoka, when compared with Clavell immediately apparent who is the foreman here, and who is an apprentice, but that it was clear does not mean that Chmara sparrows is not worth reading. On the contrary, however, what you like, but just a little climate clavellowskiego me in this novel lacked. At the same time, what is the climate? The word, without explaining what was going on, empty. Takashi Matsuoka certainly created an interesting novel, filled with action, interesting descriptive terms. Matsuoka, writer undoubtedly clever, it is not, however, in my opinion, the gift of pulling the reader in the world that he created in such a way as Clavell. It's just that, well, big Clavell he was a writer, does not mean, however, that a good writer, which undoubtedly is Takashi Matsuoka's not worth reading.
I do not want to lead a prudent anyone discouraged, but on the other hand it is a warning to the reader, who will prepare the feast of literary and gets only a very good dinner. Moreover, the impression that the author swarms of sparrows better feel in the literature more intellectual than Clavell. The great advantage of the novel is the logic of events, which nothing can be accused of form and construction, less Although colorful than those of the Shogun, but also fully real flesh and blood. We do not feel artifice here, we can not say koloryzował writer, he thought such characters could not exist. There we find also that the sequence of events is too random and too the moon, so that he could actually happen. Everything is arranged, rational, sensible.
The year is 1861. Just a few years ago, black ships of Commodore Perry to the ground przybiły Japanese. Country of the Rising Sun just opened its doors to foreigners and the gaijin on the street is a rarity. Appear already glimmers of modernity, even as a fiery weapon, while the old world of the Edo period of the ground economically, politically and socially will not easily give up. Slowly growing conflict. Such a situation finds three white missionaries who came to convert the Japanese to the faith of one of chrzescijańskopodobnych sects, which was full then, and now also in the United States. The most important of the three missionaries father was Zephaniah Cromwell. Came to Japan with his fiancee wychowanicą and Emily Gibson and John Stark, who, not particularly interested in conversion, visited Japan for a different reason. Their host in Japan is daimio Akaoki Okumichi descendant of Genji. Regarded as effeminate bawidamka Genji had apparently inherited the gift of prophecy. One of the predictions was that someone from the newly recognized aliens will save his life, which ensue people shogun. One of them is Heiko, geisha and ninja, part of the Tokugawa intelligence network. Heiko is a very important character in the novel, on a par with Genjim and Americans. Love and loved by the prince, while the enemy spy. Genji's love story and Heiko is not the only romance Swarms of sparrows . If you want to observe the development of feelings of the characters, learn their history, adventure, hiking, well, they have to reach for host of sparrows you recommend this story. Although Clavell it is not, however, something worth reading for sure.
