Re: [Shaku] The Long-Lost KPFK Tapes of Jin Nyodo

Thanks Bruce,

That is awesome! Fantastic work by all involved.

Would you please post this link on the forum in the "recordings"
section as well.

Regards,

BR

On Nov 17, 2009, at 8:50 AM, Bruce Jones wrote:

>
> A while back, I was googling Jin Nyodo just to see what was out there.
> In one session I came across a reference to a KPFK radio series on
> traditional Japanese music, and it mentioned a set of performances by
> Jin Nyodo on Radio Pacifica in the early 1960s.
>
> The program was called "Evening on the Roof," and was hosted by Peter
> Yates.
>
> Particularly intriguing was that Jin had apparently played sankyoku as
> well as honkyoku.
>
> Not too long after that, Peter Hill came through LA and we had a
> day of
> shakuhachi lessons and general hanging out. The woman who put the day
> together was Professor Rachael Rudich, who teaches at Pomona College,
> where we held the day's activities. Later that day, I got into a
> conversation with her husband, Ron Sappington, who mentioned that,
> years before, he had salvaged a garage full of old KPFK tapes years
> ago
> when the radio station was cleaning house.
>
> I mentioned the Jin Nyodo stuff to him, and he dug through the tapes
> and found the lost Jin Nyodo concerts, as well as some interestingly
> related stuff - in particular, recordings of Myoan-ji temple komuso
> playing honkyoku, and some shomyo chant, both with introductions.
>
> Ed Heckerman had a working reel-to-reel tape deck which he lent to
> Ron.
> Ron used it to record the stuff and burn it to CDs, and sent me a set
> of disks.
>
> Those music files are now available online as MP3s at:
>
> http://shikan.org/KPFK
>
> Enjoy!
>
> p.s. if anyone has further information on these performances, please
> let me know so I can add the information to this archive.
>
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