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Getting to Know Improbable Beasts

Getting to Know Improbable Beasts

How can one not gravitate to the name of a band called Improbable Beasts?  Improbable Beasts is a Boston-based professional bass clarinet ensemble –15 members strong — dedicated to bringing the deeply expressive power of multiple bass clarinets before a broad audience. Their repertoire ranges from Renaissance choral music to brand-new compositions to klezmer tunes and holiday songs. Their mission…

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From Appropriation to Incorporation, Cornelius Boots' Innovative Shakuhachi Trilogy

From Appropriation to Incorporation, Cornelius Boots’ Innovative Shakuhachi Trilogy

Portrait of composer/performer Cornelius Boots from his website

If one pays any attention to creative music in the Bay Area the name Cornelius Bootswill come up with some frequency.  He is a good example of the rich cross cultural traditions which have flourished in this area.  California was (and is) in many ways the ground zero of east/west collaborations and Boots contributes his unique take…

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I love this weirdo’s music a whole lot, and I bet some of you nerds will, too.

HOLY FLUTE: heavy metal bamboo flute album

Iconic, solo rock shakuhachi music! The culmination of years of devotion.

GO GIT SOME.

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbTjRWoJRIg)

“Arranged and Performed by Cornelius 深禅 Boots. Live at the Berkeley Rose Labyrinth May 11, 2013. Played on a 1.8 jinashi shakuhachi crafted by Jon Kypros. Renegade Nature Music. This arrangement features a couple of "expanded techniques" on the shakuhachi: circular breathing and persistent double-tonguing. The latest album project of meditation music played on bass bamboo flutes in a cave http://igg.me/at/mountain-hermit/x/57... http://shinzenshakuhachi.bandcamp.com/ Seeing as the shakuhachi has such a history creating and performing "nature music" (with songs such as "Three Valleys" "Floating Clouds", "Waterfall", "Nesting of the Cranes" and many more) I have tapped into this tradition and begun to create new nature pieces called "Renegade Nature Music." Some of these are original compositions and some are arrangements or re-imaginings of nature music from other genres, such as classic rock, metal, and blues. This song is the most "extreme" metal that I have attempted to translate into a solo shakuhachi arrangement, and it is a testament to the great riffage and compositional chops of the boys in Lamb of God that a viable version of this was even possible. These raw bamboo flutes evoke the breathy sound of sacred mysteries and have been used as meditation tools by esoteric Zen monks and mountain hermits for over 1000 years. Exploring these earthy sounds creates a connection to Nature and primordial dream states of consciousness: the trees singing, the mud chanting, the cave yawning, the sage wandering, the invisible glowing. The primary solo repertoire, created by Buddhist monks in ancient Japan, grew out of breath awareness practices, chant, and the contemplation of Nature and the nature of Existence. Download the shakuhachi "Free Bird" as a digital single or watch that video: www.cdbaby.com/corneliusboots2 http://youtu.be/DTmf4MChsMY Cornelius is the first student of Grandmaster Michael Chikuzen Gould to have earned a Shihan (master teaching license) and was given the shakuhachi name 深禅 "Shinzen" (depth Zen or deep Zen). In addition to teaching, Cornelius has recorded and written, in shakuhachi calligraphic notation, a series of 27 etudes (mukyoku) for Taimu shakuhachi. He plays all types of flutes, but specializes in jinashi and large-bore shakuhachi. Find the solo album of original Cornelius Boots compositions for large shakuhachi: www.cdbaby.com/corneliusboots Visit corneliusboots dot com and sign up on the mailing list or contact Cornelius for online or in person lessons. This video shot and edited by Marco Antonelli.”

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Eric Dolphy - God Bless the child

Performed by Cornelius Boots

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"Run to the Hills" by Iron Maiden performed by Cornelius Boots

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Edmund Welles ... a Christmas Album !

Bass Clarinets for Christmas

http://edmundwelles.bandcamp.com/album/hymns-for-christmas