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Pink Floyd's "Obscured by Clouds" on 2.74 Taimu jinashi shakuhachi

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Live at the Forte House in San Francisco October 19, 2014. Performed and arranged by Cornelius 深禅 (Shinzen) Boots. Shakuhachi and Taimu albums at CD Baby: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/corneliusboots3 http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/corneliusboots http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/corneliusboots2 Digital album at bandcamp: http://shinzenshakuhachi.bandcamp.com/ Renegade Nature Music. This arrangement features a couple of "expanded techniques" that are rare or unknown on shakuhachi: circular breathing (rare but has been around) and what I call "dragon's breath" which combines kagyraa (low Tuvan throat singing) with a shakuhachi tone: this is a brand new technique as far as I know, but has some good possibilities. Since the shakuhachi has such a history creating and performing "nature music" (with songs such as "Three Valleys" "Floating Clouds", "Waterfall", "Nesting of the Cranes" and many more) I have tapped into this tradition and begun to create new nature pieces called "Renegade Nature Music." Some of these are original compositions and some are arrangements or re-imaginings of nature music from other genres, such as Classic Rock. These are wide-bore, jinashi, root-end bamboo flutes. The Taimu excels at achieving a tone that is very earthy and glowing at the same time as projecting more than older style large Zen bamboo flutes (hocchiku, kyotaku for instance.) Taimu are made by Mujitsu Shakuhachi in San Francisco and more information about Taimu and mukyoku can be found on this website: http://www.mujitsu.com/mukyoku/ Cornelius is the first student of Grandmaster Michael Chikuzen Gould to have earned a Shihan (master teaching license) and was given the shakuhachi name 深禅 "Shinzen" (depth Zen or deep Zen). In addition to teaching, Cornelius has recorded and written, in shakuhachi calligraphic notation, a series of 27 etudes (mukyoku) for Taimu shakuhachi. He plays all types of flutes, but specializes in jinashi and large-bore shakuhachi. http://www.komuso.com/people/people.pl?person=1849 Visit www.shinzenshakuhachi.com and sign up on the mailing list or contact Cornelius for online or in person lessons. You don't need a flute or "basic sounds" before you start learning: with shakuhachi, these are very important aspects of your first lessons. More information on his original compositions for Taimu (bass) shakuhachi: http://www.mujitsu.com/mukyoku/ "Free Bird" renegade nature music video http://youtu.be/DTmf4MChsMY These raw bamboo flutes evoke the breathy sound of sacred mysteries and have been used as meditation tools by esoteric Zen monks and mountain hermits for over 1000 years. Exploring these earthy sounds creates a connection to Nature and primordial dream states of consciousness: the trees singing, the mud chanting, the cave yawning, the sage wandering, the invisible glowing. The primary solo repertoire, created by Buddhist monks in ancient Japan, grew out of breath awareness practices, chant, and the contemplation of Nature and the nature of Existence. 深禅