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Live from the Orange Room in Oakland September 30, 2011.

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] Slow Mississippi blues tunes (like solo Junior Kimbrough, for instance) and slide guitar masters (Fred McDowell, Elmore James) are the primary inspirations for this piece, which is mukyoku #27. "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:
Ice Cream Truck Song--1.8 jinashi shakuhachi
The Lonely Shepherd--1.8 jinashi shakuhachi
Chaos Return 2.8--Taimu shakuhachi
Koku--2.4 jinashi shakuhachi
Shakthamunki--2.75 Taimu shakuhachi