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NED ROTHENBERG studied with Yokoyama Katsuya and Yamaguchi Goro in Japan and with Ralph Samuelson in America. Primarily a composer and saxophone player, Ned has integrated a variety of world music forms into his compositions. |
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S-R2c 1. Emergent Vessel (5:19) 2. Naki Tokoro Nite (Where There is Neither..) (12:26) 3. Dan no Tabi (Journey on a Staircase) (22:42) 4. Shadow Detail (5:47) 5. Cloud Hands ( 8:40)
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S-R2b 1. Arbor Vitae (16:41) 2. Ghost Stories (19:41) 4. Kagami (6:30) |
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In 1985, ATSUYA OKUDA opened Zensabo - a studio for shakuhachi in Kokubunji, Tokyo - after retiring from a 20-year career playing jazz trumpet. Okuda uses jinashikan exclusively. These nobekan or one-piece instruments are made adding as little as possible to the natural bore of the bamboo just as shakuhachi were made in ancient times. Okuda plays honkyoku only, but very much in his own style, emphasizing the many tone colors jinashikan are able to express. While essentially self-taught, Okuda has intensively studied the playing of Watazumi and other great masters. His approach to shakuhachi is, at the same time, influenced by a deep knowledge of Western musical genres, such as jazz and classical, as well as traditional Japanese music. Until the Spring of 2002, Okuda refused to record his playing in the belief that only by listening to its live sound can one truly understand jinashi shakuhachi. |
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S-O2b Shakuhachi honkyoku performed on jinashikan. 1. Shoganken Reibo - Listen ATSUYA OKUDA & JINASHI "Although Okuda mainly plays the traditional repertoire, honkyoku, played by the komuso, the Zen Buddhist monks of the Fuke sect, his music is always evolving and changing, the sign of a living tradition. His belief is that each piece and each note is complete in itself, and that one must set the mind in a state in which there is no audience and no performer. Each note is approached with originality as if it played for the first time – from this stance the union of new and old emerges. From this perspective, the sounds produced by the jinashi shakuhachi helps us, according to Okuda, to transcend music itself and unite with the universe." |
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KOGA MASAYUKI is an extraordinary performer, composer and teacher of both Kinko and Tozan Ryu shakuhachi. He is founder of the Japanese Music Institute in San Francisco and Berkeley, California. |
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S-K3i. WIND FROM THE SILK ROAD 1. BackWind |
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WATAZUMIDO DOSO ROSHI (1910-1992) is perhaps the most legendary of all modern shakuhachi players and teachers. Amongst his many students is Yokoyama Katsuya, one of greatest players in Japan today. Regarding himself as something other than a musician, Watazumido based his music in an uncompromising vigorous physical discipline. He was a practitioner of the Jo stick, a long hardwood pole with which he used to stretch, massage, pounds and invigorate his body in a daily regimen beginning at 3:30 AM each day. For over 3,000 consecutive days, he maintained this discipline. Watazumido studied Rinzai Zen attaining the title of Roshi or Master and later became the Kanjo or unifying head of the Fuke sect of Zen Buddhism. He shunned traditional organized Zen practice for 32 years in favor of his own iconoclastic approach distinguished by breath training and vigorous exercise at its core. The lengthening of the "Out Breath" in his practice is directly descended from the wisdom of the breath as practiced in Zen. Watazumido's music is as unique as it is intense. His style of shakuhachi playing is based on a discipline combining Zen breath awareness and the martial arts. He is known for the blowing an original, personal style of Honkyoku on bamboos of enormous size and length called hotchiku flutes. |
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25th Anniversary Commemorative Reissue
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ANDREAS FUYU GUTZWILLER, a native of Switzerland, is one of the foremost shakuhachi players in Europe. He studied music and ethnomusicology at the Freie Universitat of Berlin and shakuhachi at Wesleyan University in America with Araki Kodo V and in Japan with Kawase Kansuke III. He is author of Shakuhachi: Aspects of History, Practice & Teaching. Since 1980, he has taught at the Basle Music Academy and is head of its Studio for Non-European Music. |  |
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S-G3d Shakuhachi honkyoku and original compositions for shakuhachi, viola, violin, percussion & electronic music. 1. Kotobuki Shirabe - Shakuhachi Honkyoku |
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Shakuhachi duets with Jurg Zurmuhle 1.Koro Sugagaki |
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S-G3b. Kinko Honkyoku prepared by Miura Kindo. 1.Ashi no Shriabe 2. Koku Reibo 3. Akita Sugagaki 4. Reibo Nagashi 5. Tsuki no Kyoku |
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S-G3a. Kinko Honkyoku prepared by Miura Kindo. |
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