Sanya: three valleys [dokyoku]: Cornelius Boots on 2.4 jinashi shakuhachi

Live from the Orange Room in Oakland April 23, 2011.
This concert was a benefit for Japan.

This piece is from the honkyoku ("classical") repertoire of the shakuhachi, a Zen flute used for breath awareness and cultivation of nature music and chant for over 1000 years in Japan.
This version is from the dokyoku lineage, roughly based on renditions of Watazumi and continued on by Katsuya Yokoyama, Yoshinobu Taniguchi, Michael Chikuzen Gould, Kaoru Kakizakai and handful of others.

Cornelius Boots is an East Bay reed renegade known primarily as the leader and composer of the world's only original bass clarinet quartet, Edmund Welles. He has been dabbling in shakuhachi for over 10 years and is now getting goal-oriented and seeking his shihan (teaching license) from his teacher, Michael Chikuzen Gould.
This site gives more information on his original compositions for Taimu (bass) shakuhachi:
http://www.mujitsu.com/mukyoku/

This is the full program from this concert--with flute lengths and types:
Komuso Nagashi--1.8 jinashi shakuhachi
Mysteries of Harmony & Focus--2.8 Taimu shakuhachi
The Tree & the Maiden 2.45--Taimu shakuhachi
Tamuke--2.65 Taimu shakuhachi
Sanya--2.4 jinashi shakuhachi
Behind the Wall of Sleep (originally by Black Sabbath)--2.4 jinashi shakuhachi

Category:

Music

Tags:

• jinashi shakuhachi
• Cornelius Boots
• dokyoku
• Yoshinobu Taniguchi
• Watazumido
• Michael Chikuzen Gould
• honkyoku
• bamboo
• Zen Buddhism
• conscious breathing
• sacred mysteries
• caves
• Pan
• mud
• trees
• meditation
• Three Valleys

[shards1972]

Amazing and beautiful.

[masda023]

Beautiful