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Recordings featuring traditional Japanese instruments.

Album CoverMedia TitleMedia TypeArtistMedia LabelCatalog NumberDateSynopsis
Dreams - Shakuhachi & Pipe Organ Dreams - Shakuhachi & Pipe Organ CD Lohbeck, Armin Kyūmei iMusician Digital B019961RTS 2015 Shakuhachi and Pipe Organ performed with Friedhelm Flamme
Home is Now Home is Now CD Curti, Horacio Ichi Records B21951-2015 2015 Home is now is a sonic presentation created from the shakuhachi in 2015. The thirteen pieces included should be first considered as sound and only then as music.
Music for Zen Meditation - Shakuhachi Japanese Flute Music for Zen Meditation - Shakuhachi Japanese Flute CD Rodriguez, Rodrigo B.M. Records
2015 Shakuhachi flute music has deep spiritual roots, back to the Komuso Monks in the Edo Period. The Shakuhachi flute expresses a deep kind of music that can only be heard when our mind is calm, we open our hearts, and walked with silence. The repertoire of the master Rodrigo Rodriguez has a broad musical knowledge of ancient and anonymous pieces, which were once sacred musical works.Rodrigo Rodriguez is the recipient of the most revered traditional shakuhachi lineages in Japan , recognized student of the shakuhachi master Kohachiro Miyata , linked to the lineage Mu-ryū. Across the white slopes of the highest mountains of Japan, derives the sweet sound of flutes. The passionate call of the deer calls us the " wilderness " which has been a haven of spirit for many centuries.
Striking Light, Striking Dark Striking Light, Striking Dark CD Blasdel, Christopher Yohmei Ears Wide Open Records EWO 005 2015 The music on this CD consists of poetry set to original compositions by the phenomenal singer Sasha Bogdanowitsch and shakuhachi master Christopher Yohmei Blasdel.
The Voice of Bamboo The Voice of Bamboo CD Casano, Steven Kōchiku cdbaby.com
2015 This recording features pieces of the traditional Japanese shakuhachi flute. Originally brought over from China as part of the ancient Japanese court music, Gagaku, the shakuhachi eventually evolved into an instrument that was used by a sect of Zen Buddhism known as the Fuke sect.

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