Joji Hirota & Guo Yue


Joji & Guo YueJoji started performing with Chinese flautist Guo Yue in the late 80's. In 1991, Joji and Guo Yue formed a group `Trísan' with Pól Brennan(ex-Clannad). They toured extensively in the Europe, Canada, USA and Japan. Their album "Trísan(1993)" won the best contemporary instrumental music by Tower Records in 1993. Joji and Guo Yue also released another album "Red Ribbon(1994)" which simply features percussion and flutes.
They performed at the Bruges Festival and toured in Belgium, Italy and the UK.
The Bruges Festival had the 15th anniversary in February in 2002, and Joji and Guo Yue were chosen by the poll of public audience to appear again. Guo Yue also joined Joji's recording of new tracks for Japanese version of "The Gate" at Real World Studios in March and performed for the track 'Sansui'
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Guo Yue
Guo Yue was born and grew up in China, the son of a well-known erhu (two-string violin) player and singer who died while Yue was still a child. He began receiving flute lessons at the age of seven, and by the age of twelve he was being taught by a number of his fathers friends. Yue's music career began at the age of seventeen when he joined Peking Army Orchestra of the People's Republic of China. In 1983 he arrived in London and formed the Guo Brothers, a line up of Chinese flute, sheng and Chinese percussion, with his brother.
In 1989 Yue began a solo career and working with non-Chinese musicians including Peter Gabriel, Sinead O'Connor and Hothouse Flowers. He also performed and helped with the composition on the soundtracks to the film The Last Emperor and The Killing Field.


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