Re: [Shaku] Watazumi

From: Peter Ross (peteross@cloudhandsmusic.com)
Date: Sun Aug 08 2004 - 06:37:57 PDT


> There is one
>album I heard with much minyo on it. And that it just
>totally wild. Not shakuhachi I think. Maybe he is
>playing hitoygiri or something? But so so wild and so
>much control!
> Okay, best wishes
> Justin

Justin,

I don't think that's Watazumi playing other flutes and Minyo on that
album. He is only on a few pieces. It's a composit CD.

Peter

>
>--- Ronald Nelson <ron@komuso.com> wrote:
>
>
>---------------------------------
> Hi Justin,
>
>I think it is best to judge for yourself by listening
>to one of his CDs.
>
>The reasons I find him interesting are mostly that he
>was a very dynamic
>and wild and accomplished player, that he taught the
>great player
>Yokoyama Katsuya, that he claims to have had no
>teachers, that his
>Zen music tradition is different from most what most
>people are selling,
>that his recordings are very rare and hard to find.
>To me he was kind
>of a crazy monk and expressed that in his music with
>rawness, energy,
>dynamics, and unique interpretations. I don't know
>another player with
>such mystique and energy.
>
>Ron
>
>
>
>
>
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