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- Date Released: August 5, 1994
- Genre: International
- Style: Asia
- Label: Continuum / The Orchard
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We Say...
Iwamoto plays the shakuhachi, the bamboo flute associated with the wandering monks of Japanese Buddhism. While this instrument can be used for other purposes (it's been present on a growing number of contemporary and cross-cultural projects), its core repertoire remains the body of centuries-old meditations known collectively as honkyoku. Perhaps it's appropriate for a Zen tradition that this trance music has little obvious repetition (though there is repetition of individual phrases), and no real intensification during the course of a piece. Which is not to say that this isn't some quietly intense music at times. The shakuhachi is a tool for meditation, and the medium used to go from one state of consciousness to another is the breath. Iwamoto, who lives in Britain and plays modern works too, focuses here on some of the "greatest hits" of the honkyoku music, including "Tsuru No Sugomori" (The Cranes Nesting) and "Reibo."
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They Say...
Yoshikazu Iwamoto is an internationally acclaimed Japanese shakuhachi player, having performed in West and East Europe, North and South America, and of course Japan. Since 1982, he has been residing in England. Although very plain, the title of his CD in fact says it all: a CD of delicately and meditatively played traditional Japanese honkyoku music. The word "delicately" should be emphasized because this adverb very well represents his style of playing; delicate, graceful, and simple (in the most positive sense of the term), Iwamoto's playing is both natural and meditatively effortless. Highly recommended.
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| 01. |  |
Tori - Kadozuke Hachigaeshi |
9:32 |
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| 02. | |
Tsuru No Sugomori |
8:35 |
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| 03. | |
Tamuke |
5:03 |
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| 04. | |
Reibo |
9:46 |
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| 05. | |
San'ya |
11:32 |
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05 Total Tracks, 44:28 Total Length
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