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Genres: World, New Age

Release Date: Nov 30, 1999

Listens: 374

Recs: 9

Format: MP3, 256 kbps Contextual Help marker

Length: 43:58

Tracks: 5

Record Label: Grammercy Records

© 2003 Grammercy Records

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Traditional Japanese Music $1.95

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About Traditional Japanese Music

Traditional Japanese Music

Solo Shackuhachi Music (Honkyoku)

These recordings are both relaxing and meditative. Capturing the spiritual flavor of traditional Japanese culture and performed by Yoshikazu Iwamoto.

The repetoire featured on this album dates from the Edo period (1603-1868) and are traditional pieces which have been handed down by zen buddist musician priests known as Komuso (Priests of Nothingness). These priests created the music for the Shakuhachi known as honkyoku, which is the core of the traditional Shakuhachi repetoire.

The Instrument

The Shakuhachi is an end blown flute with five finger holes, made from a single lenghth of heavy bamboo. The earliest surviving examples of the Shakuhachi date from the Nara period twelve hundred years ago.

Yoshikazu Iwamoto

Yoshikazu Iwamoto has made his reputation as an unprecedented master of the shakuhachi flute. He has toured both Japan and the world in addition to making a multitude of radio and television appearances.

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maggie88 Rec'd this on Jul 11, 2009:
Street Cred: 979 Rec's: 41
“beautiful music from the master of the shakuhachi flute.”
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