Hi Paul,
I just got this CD from Mejiro a couple of weeks ago (the cover shows a
side view of Sasaki playing shakuhachi in front of a Japanese temple).
It contains 20 pieces half of which are solo Minyo and half Sasaki's
traditional ensemble - koto, shamisen, shinobue flute, and percussion.
This CD also begins with Esashi Oiwake. As a matter of taste and
opinion only . . . he is clearly an excellent player, but for me his
style works best with the ensemble pieces. I found it difficult to
listen to the extremely slow and wide (amplitude) vibrato used with all
sustained notes on the solo pieces. This is probably a desirable
technique in the genre, but it's a bit distracting to me.
I was hoping to find pieces to play since I also bought the eleven
Yonea Minyo books, but except for the mentioned first song, I haven't
yet had time to attempt matching up the Kanji on the Japanese only CD
cover with the Japanese only table of contents on the Yonea books.
As a side question, perhaps someone has already done this?? Or, is
anyone willing to share some other song titles from Yonea books - in
Western writing? I'd very much appreciate getting some "book number:
page number" titles. Thanks!
Bill
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On Jun 23, 2004, at 11:01 PM, Paul Cohen wrote:
> Hi,
> Does anybody know more info about a player called Sozan Sasaki?
>
> My first shakuhachi album was bought in 95 on a whim browsing through
> the world music section in Shibuya Tower records when I was living in
> Tokyo.
> It has a cover photo that is a great wide angle shot of a nice green
> bamboo forest, and I think the tracks are Minyo pieces played against
> forest ambience (running streams etc - not sure if recorded natural or
> studio mixed). I'm sure one of the pieces is Esashi Oiwake.
>
> Mejiro have a CD "Minyo Shakuhachi Collection Esashi Oiwake" by Sozan
> Sasaki on http://www.mejiro-jp.com/eng/cdframe.html , but I think it's
> a
> different one.
>
> Would be interested in finding out more. Great player.
>
> Thanks,
> paul
>
>
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