Soloists of the Ensemble Nipponia ‎– Japan: Traditional Vocal & Instrumental Music ‎– Shakuhachi, Biwa, Koto, Shamisen

Soloists of the Ensemble Nipponia ‎– Japan: Traditional Vocal & Instrumental Music ‎– Shakuhachi, Biwa, Koto, Shamisen
Nonesuch, 1976

Naturalism, which appeared in different works of art, was sprouted from soul and mind of people through many centuries. Music, that can describe or musically paint living of the planet, living of every its twig or settler, is arising like the Sun in the middle of dark sky ‎– each sound is like a bolt from the blue, it's very subtle and harmonic, kinda pure landscape – distinctly, there is a lack of everything, that ever made by man. Scenery is growing under heaven. To be immovable, it reigns the dale of silence.

Such a magnificent music, which speaks with heart of nature, flows with rivers and channels in the land of Japan. It seems, that this playing can catch the moment, it's very split-second. Even the bloom of bamboo is stringed on winds of wood instruments. Japanese traditional compositions are always about meditative side of our life. And may be, they say, neither moreover nor less, that the whole way of our living is about it. Short zings of shakuhachi, assertive and elastic tunes of female vocals act on the edge of some slope, brow, rocky cliff – abyss spreads further, nirvana or eternal life. Those, who had crossed that line, turned into cranes or in some spirit melodies like these ones, for example. Deep and deep in silver light, disappearing in the flight... It's the dance on the strings of koto, which can talk with space and ground.

Japanese always say, that true art doesn't have any heavy point or sense, it should be clean and simple like one word on mighty stone, just like one inky hieroglyph on rice-paper. There is the same in this music – it's delicate and nice, it's minimal and it was born by serenity – music is also melting in quiet, in peace of mountain's moans, in whiteness of mute lakes.

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Japanese Traditional Music — Gagaku

Japanese Traditional Music — Gagaku

King Records, 1990

Ongoing music, that streams like regained spring rill, which achieves every small country, enters in space and connect lands, regions, human souls. Her charms are unpredictable, her power is endless. It's something more, than just languages, that tear such a big world on parts. The great destination of music lurks in the opposite — to spread everywhere, to relate black and white, to be a perineum-area for sky and ground. This highest joining contains in every unobtrusive sound, in holistic silence — music's massage, that can't be quiet or loud. 

Graceful tune patterns illuminate expanse, as if spinning scapes pullulate the Earth. High-pitched lengths seem like a song of flying cranes. Nature of the ancient times starts to appear in thousands of shapes. That all is about Gagaku — unearthly soundings, that came from Japan in the 7th century. It's the oldest classical Japanese music, which presents the first drone. This traditional and very minimal kind of playing was a kind of inspiration for well-known minimalist La Monte Young and his "Trio Fro Strings", 1958. 

Elevated melodies of Gagaku linger slow and really imposing. I can suppose, that every philharmonic "sweet tooth" appreciate such a delightful and stretchy nougat. Delicious... is the only word, that can be flown out of whispering lips. Spellbinding tappings of percussion immerse ambiance in fairy tale, which is filled by phantom entities. Their celestial movements create poetic reality, where all things are involved in magic flight and subtle dance. Just imagine this air journey, ethereal interplay. In this case, music is the best. 

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