In this lovely piece Teizō Matsumura, as it were, conjures up the spirits of the "Ballets Russes" (in particular the dancers of "Le sacre" and "Les noces") so as to make them lure the Sun goddess Amaterasu out of her cave - just as Ame no Uzume did, according to the origin myth of the Shintō dance and song tradition of "kagura". "Achime waza (Rite of Achime)" is the most archaic extant "kagura", and nobody knows for sure if its lyrics - "Achime! Oh, oh, oh, oh! Oke. Achime! Oh, oh, oh, oh!" etc. - were ever supposed to have a meaning.
"Achime" for soprano, 3 percussionists and 11 players (1957)
Toshiko Tsunemori (soprano) - Sumire Yoshihara, Junko Arase & Midori Takada (percussion) - Masami Nakagawa (flute), Sōichi Wakioka (oboe), Toshiaki Morita (clarinet), Kazuo Tomioka (saxophone), Shinkichi Maeda (bassoon), Hiroyuki Minami (French horn), Isao Fukui (trumpet), Kiyoshi Itō (trombone), Masaharu Kanda (cello), Yoshio Arase (double bass) & Reiko Fumeno (piano), conducted by Nobuaki Tanaka
from Victor LP SJX 9560~4 (released in 1981)