DESCRIPTION:
Live from the Orange Room in Oakland April 23, 2011.
This concert was a benefit for Japan.
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]

Creating a piece in the mixolydian mode (not common on shakuhachi) was the motivation behind this piece, which is mukyoku #7. "mukyoku" is the name of the pieces written specifically for Taimu shakuhachi, which is like the cello/trombone/Barry White of the shakuhachi world. 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 Boots is an East Bay reed renegade known primarily as the leader and composer of the world's only original bass clarinet quartet, Edmund Welles. He has been dabbling in shakuhachi for over 10 years and is now getting goal-oriented and seeking his shihan (teaching license) from his teacher, Michael Chikuzen Gould.

This is the full program from this concert--with flute lengths and types:
Komuso Nagashi--1.8 jinashi shakuhachi
Mysteries of Harmony & Focus--2.8 Taimu shakuhachi
The Tree & the Maiden 2.45--Taimu shakuhachi
Tamuke--2.65 Taimu shakuhachi
Sanya--2.4 jinashi shakuhachi
Behind the Wall of Sleep (originally by Black Sabbath)--2.4 jinashi shakuhachi