Shakuhachi "Snake Dreams of Dragon" 尺八 Cornelius Boots @ Philadelphia Cherry Blossom Festival 2024

Featured on the album Bamboo Rising: Shakuhachi Unleashed Vol. II
https://corneliusboots.bandcamp.com/album/bamboo-rising-shakuhachi-unleashed-vol-ii
April 13, 2024 at the Subaru Cherry Blossom Festival presented by the Japan American Society of Greater Phildelphia.
CB performance sponsored by Dr. Felice Fisher and Black Earth Shakuhachi School.

Arranged and performed by Cornelius 深禅 (Shinzen) Boots on the 1.8 jinashi shakuhachi, a root-end bamboo Zen flute made by Jon Kypros in 2008.

I have always liked Duane Eddy's twangy guitar playing and writing. One of the great things about shakuhachi is its ability to access slidey and gritty sounds in a similar way to the electric guitar: this is something I have been exploring a lot recently since I have actually been able to play the shakuhachi to a higher degree of competency (which took over a decade, but I'm not complaining...). This is another chance to include the audience in the arrangement.

Other Kung Fu Flute or surf-rock arrangements:
https://youtu.be/P3NvHK0uAaY
https://youtu.be/5KY-_hs6h7M
https://youtu.be/LVlXzdzLvK4

#shakuhachi #surfrock #bambooflute

Avant-garde Nature Music & Woodwind Animism. Everything here is 100% breath-powered and 100% plant-based.

Cornelius Boots is a certified grandmaster of Zen shakuhachi, a renegade classical composer and lifelong woodwind performance visionary-pioneer. Long bio below.

Woodwind Nature -- Elemental Musicianship
https://corneliusboots.com/

Black Earth Shakuhachi School
Traditional Zen Shakuhachi Flute Practice and nature meditation merges with deeper musicianship.
Nature Hymns on Big Bamboo.
Lessons and info: http://shakuhachilessons.com/
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LONG BIO:
Founder/composer of Black Earth Shakuhachi School, Cornelius Boots has forged his own eclectic style as a professional woodwind performer since 1989. A licensed shakuhachi grandmaster (dai shihan), prize-winning composer and former bass clarinet performance innovator, he is actively merging the threads of Watazumido, Eric Dolphy and Son House on jinashi (all-natural) and Taimu (bass) shakuhachi.

Boots has generated and released an entire body of new songs and compositions for these large, raw and rare bamboo flutes of Japanese Zen Buddhist origin: mukyoku (27 pieces for Taimu) and Shakuhachi Unleashed (48 virtuosic songs of rock, Zen, blues, metal and more). In 2018, he was a finalist in the World Shakuhachi Competition, a featured performer for Sony PlayStation’s E3 press conference (LA) and a featured performer/lecturer at both the World Bamboo Congress (Xalapa, Mexico) and the World Shakuhachi Festival (London).

A three-time graduate of the renowned Jacobs School of Music (BM Classical Clarinet ’97, BS Audio Recording ’97, MM Jazz Studies ’99), Boots’ training and work experience is deep and diverse: jazz saxophonist, swing clarinetist, symphony bass clarinetist, funk and progressive rock bandleader and founder/composer of the world’s only composing bass clarinet quartet, Edmund Welles. With his latest three albums, the Shakuhachi Unleashed series—Holy Flute (2017), Bamboo Rising (2018), and Sacred Root (2019)—Cornelius continues to develop “bamboo gospel,” a robust, cross-cultural solo style utilizing rare breath-defying techniques and maximum polystylistic prowess.

A Performer’s Certificate Awardee from David N. Baker’s seminal Jazz Studies program at Indiana University, Cornelius is the first student of Grandmaster Michael Chikuzen Gould to have earned a Shihan (master teaching license) in 2013 and was given the shakuhachi name 深禅 "Shinzen" (depth Zen or deep Zen). In 2022, he was awarded a Dai Shihan (grandmaster) certificate in recognition of his dedication and contribution to the art and practice of shakuhachi. In addition to teaching, Cornelius has recorded and written, in shakuhachi calligraphic notation, a series of 27 etudes (mukyoku) for Taimu shakuhachi. First-prize winner of the 2013 International Clarinet Composition Competition, Boots has also received commissions and awards from Chamber Music America, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Areon Flutes, International Songwriting Competition and Meet the Composer.
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Woodwind Nature Music Video:
https://youtu.be/gXROBTZz-vo
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