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HOLY FLUTE
Funding Campaign Video. Campaign at https://igg.me/at/holy-flute

New 12-track album by Cornelius Boots featuring standard and bass size bamboo flutes: jinashi shakuhachi and Taimu.

Heavy metal bamboo flute. Big riffs and masterful songs played on one of the rarest and most difficult wind instruments: Japanese Zen shakuhachi. Keeping the mojo intact, award-winning composer and woodwind visionary Cornelius Boots presents original songs alongside hard rock and metal classics by Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Danzig, Dio and Lamb of God.

Become a backer today and join us in this uncharted and wonderful Holy Flute exploration, exhibition, expression and revelation.

Visit www.holyflute.com

Until now, this is an uncharted realm: successfully transmitting this “bamboo metal” feeling and energy to listeners requires exceptional attention to production, post-production, illustration/cover-art and packaging. The mission is to inspire, impress and enliven you with expressive, unpredictable, virtuosic wind instrument rock music. Or, alternatively, satisfy your desire for shakuhachi music that goes beyond the edges of the known into new energies and sound structures.

What does it sound like to reflect joy and desperation, power and defeat, light and shadow, with only a piece of bamboo (or two)? How does “epic” rock energy channel into the singular voice of a breath-hungry stick with religious origins and holes in it (holy and hole-y)?

“Because of the religious origin of its music, the sound of the bamboo flute leads the mind directly into spiritual thought. Thus a single tone of the shakuhachi can sometimes bring one to Nirvana.” (Fumio Koizumi, ethnomusicologist)

"Sanctity a breath away, just a breath away." (Lamb of God, "Blacken the Cursed Sun")

“Gratitude towards all is at the center of the shakuhachi soul. The entire purpose of the shakuhachi is to foster a thankful heart.” (Yoshinobu Taniguchi, shakuhachi grandmaster)

"Throughout this life, you can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath." (Chan [Zen] Master Huang Po)

"We are Evil and Divine, just creations of the mind." (Ronnie James Dio, "Faces in the Window")

"Anything you enjoy doing connects you with the power behind all creation." (Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth)

Other Black Sabbath arranged for shakuhachi:
https://youtu.be/4jMYNhOfN5w
https://youtu.be/W9zKn1vhg7Q
https://youtu.be/b2MgavqpeyI

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:
https://corneliusboots.bandcamp.com/