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Post by Blue on Oct 6, 2013 2:44:05 GMT
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Post by billdsmall on Oct 6, 2013 15:20:01 GMT
Great stuff!! Some years back the remarkable shakuhachi player Akikazu Nakamura led a group called Kokoo, which had a couple koto players. Here's their cover of Purple Haze! www.youtube.com/watch?v=3szEMtPdq5oAt times he uses circular breathing. From the 9 second mark of the following video Saji until 34 seconds into it he doesn't stop to take a breath, and he's playing a l-o-n-g shakuhachi. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrGSstJiAHsA great musician but also a bit scary. |
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Post by Blue on Oct 14, 2013 14:42:59 GMT
Comparing the length of the shakuhachi with respect to the size of the musician's feet, it looks like Nakamura-san is playing a 2.4 feet shakuhachi. Yes, the longer the flute, the more challenging it is to maintain a very long note! As I see more and more shakuhachi performances, I'm still trying to come to terms that the player often moves or even shakes his head with respect to the shakuhachi to produce different types of sounds. That's usually a no-no for dizi and xiao concerts, where the players's head and instrument never move with respect to each other even if the other parts of the performer's body move.
The ending of Purple Haze was very funny. Floodlights immediately followed the very last abrupt note of the shakuhachi.
Suppose we take the avant-garde limit further: what about combining Stomp with the shakuhachi?
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Post by billdsmall on Oct 15, 2013 10:20:58 GMT
Why not!? Isn't Taiko drumming a form of Japanese Stomp?!
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