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Live at the University of Mississippi: the Nutt Auditorium at Ole Miss. September 3, 2014. Performed and composed by Cornelius 深禅 (Shinzen) Boots. Video by Charlie Miles, concert sponsored by Vandoren and facilitated by Dr. Michael Rowlett.

The ability of the Taimu to create a resonant air turbulence reminiscent of a distorted electric slide guitar is being exploited in this piece.

An original composition, #6 of 27 written in 2009-2010 for Taimu Shakuhachi, for more information on these pieces "mukyoku" go to this website:
http://www.mujitsu.com/mukyoku/

This is an original composition for Taimu shakuhachi, although it can be played on any size flute to great effect.
[This piece is now available on a full length CD you can get at CD Baby: go to http://www.cdbaby.com/corneliusboots]

The long tone Buddhist honkyoku pieces (like Kyorei) and slow Mississippi blues tunes (like solo Junior Kimbrough, for instance) are the primary inspirations for this piece---"mukyoku" is the name of the pieces written specifically for Taimu shakuhachi, which is like the cello/trombone/Barry White of the shakuhachi world. 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/

Recent album at CD Baby: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/corneliusboots3
Digital album at bandcamp: http://shinzenshakuhachi.bandcamp.com/

Cornelius Boots is a breath wizard and renegade Zen flute adept known primarily as the leader and composer of the world's only original bass clarinet quartet, Edmund Welles.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.

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