Five Directions
五方
| [Genre] | Modern |
| [Composed] | John Kaizan Neptune - Shakuhachi - 1987 |
Five Directions appears on the following albums
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| Jazzen |
Shakuhachi : John Kaizan Neptune | |
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I can think of at least five reasons for my choosing this title: there are five holes on the shakuhachi; the first sounds heard are a five-beat cycle; two five-tone Japanese scales are used; and this piece was written and arranged for ("directions" given to) five musicians. But that's only four. The fifth may be my continuing use of influences coming from different directions-Japanese, Indonesian, Latin, jazz, etc. North, South, East, West...maybe the combinations makes it "Five Directions."
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