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Ambient/Traditional Flute Music from Japanese Shakuhachi Master Teruhisa Fukuda


The shakuhachi is an end-blown bamboo flute with one dorsal and four frontal holes and a bevelled notch as mouthpiece. There are two elements in the name of the instrument: shaku refers to an ancient measurement which is the equivalent of 30,3 cm; hachi means eight. Originally shakuhachi thus refers to a flute that measures 1,8 shaku, that is, 54,5 cm.

For this CD, 2LP Master Fukuda chose a series of seven pieces from a repertoire dating back to the seventeenth century. These were originally performed by monks belonging to the Fuke sect of zenBuddhism, who viewed their instrument as means for meditation. The seven pieces are destined to be played solo, in the spirit of zen.

Teruhisa Fukuda
Born in 1949, Teruhisa Fukuda is an eminent artist who has explored a vast range of musical techniques from, both, traditional and contemporary music.



Tracklist LP:

LP 1
Face A/Side A
1. Ajikan
2. Echigo-sanya
Face B/Side B
3. Kokû
LP 2
Face C/Side C
4. Reibo
5. Tamuke
Face D/Side D
6. Saji
7. Takiotoshi




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- "Coup de coeur" of the Academie Charles Cros 2018
- "Selection 2018" of Le Monde

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Genre: Ethnic - Historical recordings

Tracklist CD 1: (71'26)
1. (Sunny Spring) [Le printemps] 7'52
2. (Song of Steadfast Loyalty) [Le chant de loyauté] 1'09
3. (Waters and Mists of the Rivers Xiao and Xiang) [Nuages sur l'eau des rivières Xiao et Xiang] 10'05
4. (Wild Geese Landing on Sand) [Les oies sauvages se posent sur la grève] 5'50
5. (Water Immortal) [L'immortel des eaux] 6'17
6. (Soaring Dragon) [Le vol de dragon] 4'18
7. (Incantation of the Buddhist Priest Pu'an) [L'incantation du moine Pu'an] 8'25
8. (Three Variations on the Tune 'Plum Blossom') [Trois variations sur les fleurs de pruniers] 8'09
9. (Parasol Leaves Dancing in the Autumnal Breeze) [Les feuilles du parasol chinois dansent dans le vent d'automne] 3'43
10. (Wild Geese Landing on Sand) [Les oies sauvages se posent sur la grève] 3'52
11. (Eighteen Variations on the Tune 'Barbarian Horn') [Le sifflet barbare en dix-huit sections] 11'44

Tracklist CD 2: (62'20)
1. (Illustration of finger technique) [Illustration du doigté] 3'45
2. (The Chant of the Qin) [La mélopée du qin] 1'05
3. (Lamenting the Past) [Elégie pour les anciens] 2'14
4. (Moon Over the Mountain Pass) [La lune brille sur la passe] 1'50
5. (Lament by the River Xiang) [Tristesse sur la rivière Xiang] 2'37
6. (Tune for a Pleasant Evening) [Une agréable soirée] 2'32
7. (Spring Dawn over the Jade Pavilion) [Aube printanière au pavillon de jade] 2'00
8. (Parting at Yangguan) [L'adieu à Yangguan] 3'30
9. (Sorrow in Changmen Palace) [Lamentation au palais de Changmen] 3'59
10. (Thinking of an Old Friend) [En pensant à un ami] 5'35
11. (Drunken Fisherman Sings in the Evening) [Le pêcheur ivre chante dans le soir] (First version) 3'21
12. (Drunken Fisherman Sings in the Evening) [Le pêcheur ivre chante dans le soir (Second version) 3'31
13. (Dialogue between a Fisherman and a Woodcutter) [Dialogue du pêcheur et du bûcheron] (First version) 8'22
14. (Dialogue between a Fisherman and a Woodcutter) [Dialogue du pêcheur et du bûcheron] (Second version) 8'40
15. (Autumn Song at the Border) [Chant d'automne à la frontière] 5'03
16. (Wild Geese Landing on Sand) [Les oies sauvages se posent sur la grève] 4'15


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Historical recordings made between 1956 and 1989 - Notes by Georges Goormaghtigh
Mrs Tsar Teh-yun (1905-2007) was not only a poet and calligrapher, but a fervent musician and eminent teacher. She devoted much of her long life to teaching the qin, the antique seven stringed zither, at a time when the heritage of the ancient culture was threatened with extinction in China. This refined, demanding music, seen by the literati as a path to self-awareness, has here been recorded by her pupils in the very place where it was taught, the Yinyin Study, "The room of the unfathomable virtue of the qin."


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Prize of the International Charles Cros Academy

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Tracklist CD : (60'50)
1. (Je m'en retourne) [Homeward Bound I Go] 5'05
2. (Elégie pour les Anciens) [Elegy for Those Gone By] 2'43
3. (En pensant à un ami) [Thinking of a Friend] 7'27
4. (Tristesse sur la rivière Xiang) [Sadness on the Banks of the Xiang River] 3'33
5. (L'incantation du moine Pu'an) [The Incantation of the Monk Pu'an] 9'51
6. (L'immortel des eaux) [The Immortal by the Water] 7'42
7. (Trois variations sur les fleurs de prunier) [Three Variations About the Flowers of the Plum Tree] 9'11
8. (Dialogue du pêcheur et du bûcheron) [Dialogue of the Fisherman and the Woodcutter] 10'19
9. (L'adieu à Yangguan) [Farewell to Yangguan] 4'09
10. (Le chant du vieillard ivre) [Song of the Intoxitated Elder] 0'44


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Recordings 2006 made by Renaud Millet-Lacombe. Notes by Georges Goormaghtigh.

Sou Si-tai, whose playing style is pure and serene, started out by learning to play the end-blown xiao flute and the side-blown di flute with Wang Quan. In the early 1980s, he started learning the qin with Mrs Tsar The-yun, master of the Fanchuan school, disciple of Shen Caonong, an especially gifted and highly talented musician who was initiated into the arts of poetry and calligraphy at an exceptionally young age.
Sou Si-tai is also a qin maker.
He teaches and gives concerts in many places in the world.
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"Les Blades du Vent" is a Marimba-Saxophone duet created in 2013 by Aïda Diop and Joël Musy, one trained in classical percussion, and the other, a jazz musician.This album is a repertoire on the border of genres, between covers, arrangements and original compositions, Les Blades du Vent seeks the marriage of sounds, the balance of colors, the accuracy of the subject, the connivance and the expression. "

Tracklist

1. Srpska Igra 2'06
2. Déjeuner sur l'herbe 4'55
3. The Tambourine Man 2'48
4. La danse des Mocassins 4'11
5. Barge 3.6.11.17h 7'22
6. Rain Forest 6'07
7. Pieces of wood 5'32
8. Le dos du do 3'21
9. Zinoudenuit 4'33
10. Nature Boy 3'04



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The musicians did both studies at classical as well as jazz High Schools of music, and play world-jazz original music with a beautiful sound (marimba and saxophones), well recorded for this CD.

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