Madi's New CD is officially released!

Madi Sato talks about her new album.
It is official the new cd, Return to the River is out in the world.  It is available for sale at www.cdbaby.com

Thank you to everyone who helped this music come to life.  with love, Madi Sato

Two months prior to the devastating March 11^th earthquake and tsunami in Japan, Madi Sato recorded an album of Japanese music in a meditation temple at the Crestone Colorado Mountain Zen Center. Madi and a group of Japanese and American musicians engaged in a powerful journey of creating together in sacred space.

The album, Madi’s third, includes traditional music from her late father’s homeland of Sendai as well as her original compositions. It moves like a river through the turns and movements of Madi’s life, both in America and Japan, from childhood to motherhood and features voice, koto, shakuhachi, taiko drums, piano, bass and sounds of nature. (Produced by John Rangel.)

A portion of the proceeds from sales of Return to the River will go to the

non-profit organization, KASA: Kindness America – Sendai Alliance.

KASA aims to provide relief to smaller villages in the Sendai region and to facilitate meaningful exchanges of kindness between Japanese and Americans. www.kasacommunity.org

To Sendai with Love: A benefit event for Japan. August 11, 2011, Santa Fe, NM

To see a youtube video of this event click on this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxssDnjwOm0

KASA: Kindness America - Sendai Alliance's purpose is to provide relief to the smaller villages of Sendai, as well as, have meaningful exchanges of kindness between America and Japan. Featuring taiko drummer from Sendai, Keishi Yazawa and singer, Madi Sato. To learn more about KASA visit: www.kasacommunity.org
Contact: Stephen Sato, director of KASA 303-548-8127

MADI SATO's NEW CD, Return to the River RELEASE PARTY

Friday, August 26th, 2011 at 6pm
Center for Spiritual Living
505 Camino de las Marquez in Santa Fe.
Free and open to the public.

Two months prior to the devastating March 11th earthquake and tsunami in Japan, Madi Sato recorded an album of Japanese music in a meditation temple at the Crestone Colorado Mountain Zen Center. Madi and a group of Japanese and American musicians engaged in a powerful journey of creating together in sacred space. The album, Madi’s third, includes traditional music from her late father’s homeland of Sendai as well as her original compositions. It moves like a river through the turns and movements of Madi’s life, both in America and Japan, from childhood to motherhood and features voice, koto, shakuhachi, taiko drums, piano, bass and sounds of nature. (Produced by John Rangel.)

A portion of the proceeds from sales of Return to the River will go to the non-profit organization,
KASA: Kindness America – Sendai Alliance. KASA aims to provide relief to smaller villages in the Sendai region and to facilitate meaningful exchanges of kindness between Japanese and Americans.
www.kasacommunity.org

CONTACT
Madi Sato
505-660-2526, madisato@gmail.com
www.MadiSato.com

To Sendai With Love: A benefit event for Japan

I am deeply grateful for all who attended the event, To Sendai With Love. Thank you to all of the artists who offered songs, prayers and dances. A heartfelt thanks to our featured guest artist, Keishi Yazawa from Sendai, Japan. You allowed us to connect to the land and people of Sendai through the taiko drum and your sincere stories of healing and hope. May we continue to send our love and prayers to Japan. May my brother, Stephen Sato and his new non-profit organization, KASA: Kindness America - Sendai Alliance be blessed with guidance and support. To learn more about KASA: Kindness America - Sendai Alliance look us up on facebook and visit: www.kasacommunity.org Thank you Vanessie's, Smokin' Bachi Taiko, Santa Fe JIN and KASA board members.

See highlights from KASA's August 11th Benefit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v​=kxssDnjwOm0

New CD release party!

Friday, August 26th, 2011
Madi's CD release party.
6pm at the Center for Spiritual Living in Santa Fe.
505 Camino de las Marquez 505-983-5022
I have completed my new CD, Return to the River, which includes songs from Sendai, Japan as well as, my original songs. Featuring taiko drummers, Kenny Endo and Koji Nakamura, koto by Yukiko Matsuyama,and shakuhachi by David Wheeler. Produced by John Rangel. Recorded live at a Zen monastery in Crestone, Colorado.

A Benefit Event for Japan in Santa Fe, NM

KASA presents a benefit event for Japan on August 11th, 6pm-8pm, at Vanessie in Santa Fe, NM. Our intention is to raise awareness of the current situation in Sendai following the March 11th earthquake and tsunami. The evening will feature live performances by taiko drummer, Keishi Yazawa (Sendai native), vocal artist Madi Sato, Smokin' Bachi Taiko Ensemble and Shigin singer Michiko Pierce. Light refreshments will be served. The event is free and open to the public.

Special thanks to Santa Fe Jin, Vanessie and Smoking Bachi Taiko.

KASA board members will travel to Japan this October to locate families needing assistance. We are focusing our efforts on small villages like the community of Rokugo to help rebuild lives and raise spirits!

Thank you for your interest in KASA! For more information about our future plans, contact Stephen Sato or Madi Sato.

KASA's mailing address:
8225 Fairmount Dr. 1-203
Denver, CO 80247

Stephen Sato
303.548.8127
stephenleesato@gmail.com

Madi Sato
505.660.2526
madisato@gmail.com

Fulfill your singing desires and experience the healing art of singing in a choir.

Happy Summer to all!

Awaken your authentic voice and experience the healing art of singing in a choir.

Join this spirited group of women who are setting their hearts on fire with sacred music from around the globe. Santa Fe Women's Sacred World Music Choir directed by Madi Sato.

Summer Session: August 18th - September 8th, $120 early $136 regular
Fall/Winter: October 13th - January 29th, $260 early, $300 regular
All Classes are Thursdays 5:00-6:30PM Center for Spiritual Living, 505 Camino de las Marquez
To learn more and register please visit: www.MadiSato.com or call 505-660-2526

Yours in Song,

Madi Sato
CHOIR TESTIMONIAL
"Thank you for creating a place where I can feel safe and supported in expressing myself. Even though the choir is a group setting you have this rare and wonderful gift of making each one of us feel that our voice is unique and beautiful and worthy of hearing and sharing with others. Often times I would come to choir after a long and chaotic day at work feeling either exhausted or completely stressed out but I would leave an hour and a half later feeling calm, serene, and connected to not only myself but also to rest of the community. I think of the choir as medicine for the soul and I really cherish that time with you and the other women."
Allison Moore, 2011 choir member

Private Vocal and Sound Healing Sessions with Madi Sato

Expand  your vocal ablities  through private lessons with Madi.  She employs a combination of  traditional and innovative techniques to help you awaken your authentic voice.  

Madi  studied  under jazz legend  Chris Calloway for years and has  substantial knowledge of  traditional Japanese music as well as  sacred music of many cultures. Experience the healing energies of ancient tones and indigenous sounds  from around the world. Each sound healing session is  oriented to the specific needs of the individual. Madi's  experience with sound masters of many backgrounds  and lineages combines with her intuitive ability  to sense the best process for inner transformation.

These private sessions  bring wholeness to the mind and body and joy to the spirit.

To schedule a session call: 505-660-2526

                   $80 for a one hour session

                 www.MadiSato.com

Santa Fe Women's Sacred World Music Choir Summer Sessions beginning in June.

http://madisato.com/class_choir.html

Awaken your authentic voice and experience the joy of singing with the Santa Fe Women’s Sacred World Music Choir directed by Madi Sato. Learn to use your voice for self-healing and explore the multi-dimensional art of singing indigenous, sacred music from around the world. 

Early Summer Session – 6 weeks

June 9-July 14 , $180 early $200 regular

Late Summer Session – 4 weeks

Aug. 18-Sept. 8, $120 early $136 regular

All Classes are Thursdays 5:00-6:30PM

Center for Spiritual Living, 505 Camino de las Marquez

To register: 505-660-2526

My new CD, Return to the River

I spent the day in the studio with my producer, John Rangel....getting closer to completion. As I sing these songs I feel my hands in the rice fields of Sendai, walking with Obaachan to the temple, sipping Ocha with family on the tatami mats, being dressed in kimono by the women of my family, cleaning the ancestors altar and offering food, the big baths, watching the dragonfly around my father's grave, looking at the milky way in Sendai and talking to my father, coming into motherhood, singing shigin with Koji San on taiko, singing in circle with my choir and meeting the ONE, my love.

I dedicate this CD to my father, Tadaharu  Sato (1948-1980).

I am going to Boulder, CO this week to sing in a benefit concert for Sendai at Naropa.  Sawagi Benefit.  See you there!Japan Benefit, Naropa University Boulder, CO

Madi Sato Return to the RIver CD Project

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd6sr6wy-Pkuary 10, 2011

I am just back from Crestone, Colorado where I recorded my latest CD, Return to the River, in a Japanese Monastery.

We had a team of thirteen people......four traditional Japanese Musicians, including taiko drummers, Kenny Endo & Koji Nakamura, Koto player, Yukiko Matsuyama, Shakuhachi flutist, David Wheeler, as well as, Poet, Timothy McLaughlin, Singer, Maureen Murphy, Sound Engineer, David Cragin, producer and pianist, John Rangel, photographer, Kate Russell, housing, food and transportation angel, Matthew Crowley, Meals by Naoko & Naohoko and support in numerous areas, Mr. Guy Standing.
Traditional Japanese Songs mixed with Madi's original songs. Featuring Kenny Endo and Koji Nakamura, taiko drummers, David Wheeler, shakuhachi flute, Yukiko Matsuyama, koto player, John Rangel, producer, David Cragin, sound engineer, Maureen Murphy, support vocalist, Timothy P. McLaughlin, poet. Recorded January 2011 in Crestone, Colorado at a Zen Monastery.
We spent five days in the sacred vibrations of the temple, in prayer, meditation and creativity. It was the deepest and easiest CD project I've ever been involved with. We completed all songs for the album plus wonderful spontaneous compositions that emerged from all of the artists collaborating together. Everything flowed. Everyone involved had such powerful intentions of heart and I feel that the music is infused with love. It has been a dream of mine for many years to record a CD in a sacred space and to have the opportunity to dive into sacred space and music was a true gift and blessing. I believe that everyone was transformed.

This week I am recording background vocals with the amazing Maureen Murphy and viewing video footage from this past week's Temple recording. There's still much to be done before the release of this CD and it will require a bit more funding to complete but we certainly have accomplished more than I expected to thus far and I am grateful for that. Thank you to all who are supporting this project on many levels. May you all be blessed with abundance of love and joy. I will keep you up to date as the project moves along.
with love and appreciation, Madi

Sendai, Japan News Updates about the Sato's March 11, 2011-Current

Prayer Song for the victims of the Sendai, Japan Quake 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUahEEQI2c8

Furu Sato is a traditional Japanese song about longing to return to one's hometown. I recorded for my family in Sendai, Japan. This goes out to all suffering during the time of the tsunami/earthquake. May this song be a prayer to bring light and love to all in Japan. All of the images are from Sendai, Japan...which are mostly washed away now. The woman in the pink shirt is my missing Aunt, Kyoko Ouchi. May she be surrounded by light. Koto by Yukiko Matsuyama, Produced by John Rangel. www.MadiSato.com

These are all of my facebook postings since the devastating tsunami in Sendai, Japan....read on

March 11, 2011
I have been in contact with my aunt in Tokyo....She said that my family evacuated Sendai but she has not spoken directly to them. She only received a text message from them. We don't know where the Sato's are currently. I pray they are safe. My eldest uncle, Katsuji San had to leave Sendai by car and he was alone. No one has heard from him yet. My grandmother is 96 and I am sure she would have a hard time leaving her home in Sendai. Thank you for you prayers. I'll let you know when I hear more information. Japan is in a state of chaos right now as the trains and communications are down. There is a lot of suffering happening. Sending love and light to everyone there. love,
Still missing.....Our grandmother(Ishi Sato), Aunt (Sueko Sato) and cousin...(Katsunari Sato) The rest of the family has found refuge in Tokyo.

March 12, 2011
Just got word that my grandmother, aunt and cousin are ok! Thank you everyone for your prayers. 
Sendai Family update... My grandmother is in the area where the tsunami has hit. She was in a nursing home and it sounds like all the elderly in that home had evacuated to the roof when the tsunami hit. Her actual home where many of my family live together (including 2 uncles, 5 cousins, 2 aunts and grandmother) was in the line of the tsunami and the temple where my ancestors are buried for over 400 years appear to have been hit. This is the gravesite of my father as well. Keep sending your energy, chants and prayer to Sendai. So much devastation. 4 more of my family members are inside a school building in Sendai. There is only one family member still missing. Her name is Kyoko Ouchi. Thank you all for your prayers. Madi 


From: Takashi Sato in Sendai.
Water seems to return to the sea now in Sendai.
I hope the rescue starts.
The rescue team comes from all parts of the world.
‎9,500 people still missing in Sendai.

‎24 hour coverage of the Japan Quake Tragedy.

On Air : jibtv.com

www.jibtv.com

March 13, 2011

Recovery efforts have started in Japan. Prayers and love are still needed. with love,
Madi

My uncle, Tadao Sato and his son, Takahiro are going into Sendai right now to see if they still have a home.

I just got word that it appears that the home went underwater and the car went through the house. My grandmother (Ishi) and 2 of my uncles families' all live together in houses which are side by side. Life will not be the same for the Sato's in Sendai. Our ancestor's have been in Sendai for over 300 years. I lived in Sendai as a child and spent time at my Grandmother's home. Several years ago I lived with Grandma for 3 months and it breaks my heart that their homes were destroyed. The Sato's worked two rice fields across the street when I was a child and my grandmother made daily trips to the temple across the street where my ancestor's are. I have so many memories of my grandmother riding her bike around the neighborhood and visiting her friends. She still went out to the fields at the age of 94 to collect left over soybeans. There is still no word about her condition or her whereabouts. We last heard that she had evacuated to the rooftop of a nursing home when the tsunami hit. More later.

Madi

March 14, 2011

Thank you All who have sent so many prayers and blessings to my family in Sendai. My grandmother is accounted for. I'm not sure of her condition as well as the rest of the family. I got an email from my cousin, Takashi Sato this morning which said that he is returning to work today because he is Japanese. He evacuated from Sendai when the tsunami hit and went to Tokyo where my Auntie lives. It is touching to see the nature of response from the Japanese people....one of calm, joining together and moving forward.

Quake Toll expected to exceed 20,000
This figure is beyond understanding. Japan has been transformed forever and in fact the entire earth has shifted. Our world is becoming a new world. May we pray for renewal of the earth and compassion for one another.

March 15, 2011

There is only one Aunt, Kyoko Ouchi still missing in Sendai. Her home was in Natori City which is very close to the ocean. The rest of my family are now all accounted for including my Grandmother. It appears that their homes were hit by the tsunami and they are taking up shelter various places in Sendai. Thank you and may we continue to send our prayers to those affected by this crisis.

March 16, 2011

I had a dream last night of walking on the streets of Tokyo and it was snowing. People were huddled together.....homeless and cold. In the Santa Fe New Mexican this morning it said that "temperatures have dropped and snow fell overnight." "Yesterday we ate a bit of rice and one egg," said Yoshiko Tsuzuki, 55, homemaker waiting in a line outside a grocery store on the outskirts of the battered city of Sendai. Visualize food, water and shelter for everyone displaced by the quake.  I have started a fund to help my family with the basics (food and clothing).  Sendai residents will need a lot more to rebuild their homes.  Concerned, Madi

In the Santa Fe New Mexican this morning it said that "temperatures have dropped and snow fell overnight." "Yesterday we ate a bit of rice and one egg," said Yoshiko Tsuzuki, 55, homemaker waiting in a line outside a grocery store. I have started a fund to help my family with the basics. Sendai residents will need a lot more to rebuild their homes.

Just got word from my cousin, Takashi Sato in Sendai...."The earthquake still continues in Sendai" The situation continues to worsen so we need all the prayers the world can provide.

March 17, 2011

I have received over 400 "prayer and blessing" emails regarding the Japan quake. All of your intentions of love create healing....so powerful. I am deeply grateful. In the midst of sorrow is so much kindness coming from all over the planet. I got an email from my uncles who say they cannot return to work because there is no gasoline for their cars. Instead they are spending time together and cleaning up their neighborhoods and sharing modest meals, wearing the same clothing. It is touching.  My grandmother wears a yellow rain jacket from the relief workers who rescued her.  A new world is birthing.  I send light to my missing aunt, Kyoko Ouchi of Natori City in Sendai.

with love and light, Madi

Before the tsunami in Sendai, Japan. A picture of my grandmother, Ishi Sato and cousin, Takashi Sato.

The Sato Family home after the tsunami.

March 18, 2011

It has been a week since the devastating tsunami....please keep the Japanese people in your hearts....send them love....their suffering is sinking in. They will not return to their homes in a long while if ever again. It is breaking my heart to see photos of my family's homes completely destroyed. Most of us here take for granted that we can return home daily to find comfort and rest...May the Japanese be comforted and restored. My aunt, Kyoko Ouchi is still missing. She is the one in the youtube video in a pink sweater. I post my video again to keep reminding all of us of just one family of many in devastation. The song is called "Furu Sato" and is about longing to return home. The photos are of Sendai and my family....before the tsunami. May the Satos hold memories of their home sweetly in their hearts when they feel sorrow. Light a candle so that we remember to keep sending prayers daily. With sadness in my heart, Madi

March 19, 2011

Thank you for your prayers! My Aunt, Kyoko Ouchi is ok! I received a message from family this morning that they finally talked to her. Her home was hit by the tsunami but she is alive! I also connected with my friend Tomoaki Yoshida on skype this evening and he gave me the most amazing report of the people of Sendai. I will share more as I can.
love and gratitude, Madi

March 27, 2011

Anjamoras debut recording "Tanabata Sama" for Sendai, Japan. Song will be out soon!

March 29, 2011

Madi Sato's Women's Sacred World Music Choir records debut song, "We are the One" A song for Japan and on Madi's upcoming CD, Return to the River (a collection of Japanese traditional songs with Madi's original songs) 

March 31, 2011

Everyone please take a moment to send your attention to the waters in Japan. Join together with your families and friends and send intentions of purification and light. I will be singing with 35 women (Sacred World Music Women's Choir) this Thursday for healing to the waters in Japan.

Water Ceremony with Dr. Masaru Emoto

Location: Please join us ~ EVERY DAY at 12pm, noon ~ Your Local Time

Time: ‎12:00PM Friday, April 1st

Prayer song for the victims of the Sendai,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUahEEQI2c8

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