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Live from the Berkeley Rose Labyrinth, March 9, 2013. Video by Marco Antonelli.

This is an original composition for Taimu shakuhachi, although it can be played on any size flute to great effect. This piece is available on two full length CDs ("Mukyoku" and "Sacred Root") you can get at CD Baby: https://store.cdbaby.com/Artist/CorneliusBoots

The long tone honkyoku pieces (like Kyorei) and slow Mississippi blues tunes (like solo Junior Kimbrough, for instance) are the primary inspirations for this piece, which is mukyoku #10. "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 Ken LaCosse of Mujitsu Shakuhachi in San Francisco. More information about Taimu and mukyoku can be found on this website:
http://www.mujitsu.com/mukyoku/

Cornelius Shinzen 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 12 years and is suddenly getting goal-oriented and seeking his shihan (teaching license) from his teacher, Michael Chikuzen Gould.
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http://www.shakuhachilessons.com