Koku Shakuhachi solo by Ronnie Nyogetsu Reishin Seldin

Koku, or "Bell ringing in the Empty Sky" is one of the three oldest honkyoku. It is said to have been composed after the death of the Zen monk Fuke-Zenji, patriarch of the shakuhachi, who in life is supposed to have walked around ringing a small hand-bell. In the legend the monk predicts the day of his own death. When the villagers hear of his death, they open his coffin and find it empty. However, they look to the sky and clearly hear the sound of a bell getting fainter, as if ascending to the clear, blue sky. The music of Koku ("empty sky") supposedly represents this event.

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Music

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• Koku
• Shakuhachi
• Honkyoku
• Flute
• Bamboo
• Ronnie
• Nyogetsu
• Reishin
• Seldin

[michaelis61]

Nice piece, and a good teaching video for me as beginner...

[QuanYin71]

This is some good performance . not only the technique ,but also the spirit in the piece ...

really magnificent !

Chapeau !!

[fool1shmortal]

Yes!  When I first heard the music, I was like, this does not have the smooth melody of a recorder, clarinet or something like that. For some reason, I wanted to give it more tries. Maybe it was the soulful side of me, but it did sound like gusts blowing through a lot of different things (kind of like that that Disney shorts movie when the wind is blowing apart that old windmill and there's an owl-the film, had wizard apprentice Mickey in it). I might've been turned-off by this, jazz-style.

[Andy4649]

Beautiful!

[DireSloth]

Bravo XD

[freekwitjes]

first comment xD