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Enyatotto-Ichiza is an interesting band playing original songs in Nara prefecture.
There are a lot of bands in Japan that play rock, jazz, pops and so on, but almost all of them copy Western music, and not Eastern, not Japanese.
Almost all Japanese musicians aren't international, because they don't have a rhythm of their own.
We in "Enyatotto-Ichiza" try to play and enjoy the Japanese rhythm called "enya-totto".
The B.G.Sound which you are listening to right now is one of these rhythms.

Japanese rhythm and folk songs are often played by many traditional bands.
But they aren't new and vivid, so young people don't try to dance to them.
It is said that reggae music was a combination of Jamaican folk songs and rock music.
That's the old and the new, the original and the popular.
We in "Enyatotto-Ichiza" are creating Japanese Reggae, an "Enyatotto Music".

Then please listen to our songs !
You may say, "Are these Japanese Reggae, really ? Some of them sound just like Rock & Roll."
Maybe, but please just give us more time, and you will get used to us!.
We want to understand Rock & Roll and want to play Japanese traditional music.
We in "Enyatotto-Ichiza"are absorbing an essence of both rhythms right now.
And we are going to let the flower of Enyatotto Music come out soon.
Why don't you come and join us?
Thank you !