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Recordings featuring traditional Japanese instruments.

Album CoverMedia TitleMedia TypeArtistMedia LabelCatalog NumberDateSynopsis
Pacific Overtures Pacific Overtures LP Iwamoto Yoshikazu Jay Productions TER2 1151 1988
Painters Winter Painters Winter LP Parker, William AUM Fidelity AUM116-1 2022 Creative improvised music.
Pathway Pathway CD Herr, Robert

1995 Shakuhachi honkyoku and original compositions.

Pause CD Taylor, Joel


An extended modal meditation for shakuhachi, small percussion, and Serge analog synthesizer, this set looks East towards India and SE Asia for it's inspiration.
Perspectives of New Music Perspectives of New Music CD Seldin, Ronnie Nyogetsu Reishin Nimbus Records PNM 27 1989 Perspectives of New Music is the name of the well respected Journal of 20th Century music, that goes along with this CD. In the issue, for the first time, Japanese Music (modern and Traditional) was given a 200 page section, edited by Dr. Henry Burnett. There is also an excellent trio recorded live in Tokyo of Zangetsu, and a solo version of Reibo by Nyogetsu.
Phoenix Crying - Yearning for the Bell Volume 6 Phoenix Crying - Yearning for the Bell Volume 6 CD Lee, Riley Kōho Tall Poppies TP167 2004 Volume 6 of the 7 volume "Yearning for the Bell" series.
Phrygian Wood Phrygian Wood CD Various
PRD-273

Picture Dreams Picture Dreams CD Lee, Riley Kōho New World Productions OW736 1997 Riley and Satsuki Odamura play their favourite shakuhachi and koto duets.
Pipa Xing - Works of Akira Ifukube Pipa Xing - Works of Akira Ifukube CD Nosaka Keiko Camerata 28CM-558 1999
Planet Sleeps, The Planet Sleeps, The CD Seldin, Ronnie Nyogetsu Reishin


Everything about this CD, from its eye-popping cool packaging to its beautiful booklet, is wonderful, perhaps peerless. It's a study that spans 16 countries, catching paeans to childhood sleep from varied traditions. Beyond being a great collection of international music, this is probably the most interesting mix available of cultural voices approaching the issue of children sleeping.
Poem of Japan: Music for Shakuhachi Poem of Japan: Music for Shakuhachi DIGITAL Rodriguez, Rodrigo

2019 (Description from Rodrigo Rodriguez): (Poem of Japan) Mizuho no Uta /Poem of Japan みずほのうた Composed by Kohachiro Miyata© 1978 Mizuho's "mizu" is water and "ho" is ears of rice. This rice is soaking with enough water. Japanese people has treated rice as main food and value it as identity. However, 1970's, Japan took an economic policy ("traitor" policy) to reduce Japanese (domestic) rice and increase importing rice from U.S.A. Then the food self-sufficiency ratio became under 40%. Japanese farmer has best rice crop upon a unit area. Kohachiro Miyata proud composed this piece, and wish to revive of such Japanese rice. Food self-sufficiency means real "independence”. This is a piece of genre Modern. Poem of Japan was composed originally for Shakuhachi and Koto by Miyata Kohachiro© in 1978/11/25, 3 months after the birth of Rodrigo Rodriguez who had the date of 1978/8/2
Poeme du Bambou Poeme du Bambou
Lienhard, Marco



Postcards From Bundanon Postcards From Bundanon CD Lee, Riley Kōho New World Productions NWCD-728 2000 The best of Riley Lee with a new live recording with Matthew Doyle on digeridoo.
Prayer for the Missing, A Prayer for the Missing, A CD Seldin, Ronnie Nyogetsu Reishin KiSuiAn
2001 This very special CD is a collection of bamboo flute offerings performed by members of New York City's KiSuiAn Shakuhachi Dojo whose founder is Ronnie Nyogetsu Seldin. The traditional pieces on this CD were passed down through the ages to aid in healing and to provide safe passage of the spirit. All profits from the sale of this CD will be donated to non-profits responding to impacts of 9/11/01 and other crises in the NYC area.
Priests and Samurai Priests and Samurai CD Sullivan, Ryan

2012
Primal Identity Primal Identity CD Gelb, Philip ESP DL-6-1996 CD 1996 Orginal compostions with shakuhachi and piano.
Prime Numbers Prime Numbers CD Neptune, John Kaizan Nep Tunes (Victor) JKN-1639 1994 Shakuhachi and koto in a unique synthesis of sound. An extraordinary album of modern interpretative pieces composed by Neptune.
Primitive Heart Primitive Heart CD Ross, Peter


Hit the play button and enter the space of Primitive Heart, Peter Ross' fourth studio recording. A vibrant Shakuhachi showcase, it features Peter on Shakuhachi, Bass Shakuhachi, bamboo flute and his own creation, the Arabian Shakuhachi. Powerful and passionate, Primitive Heart is also a testament to his experimental nature. With obvious delight, Peter weaves exotic melodies with world music rhythms, then adds uncommon accompaniments that include oud, viola, brazilian berimabau, and ethnic drums like the clay udu, djembe, and dunbek. The result is a hypnotic opus of rhythm and melody that resonates long after the last cut.
Pro Musica Nipponia - Soul Pro Musica Nipponia - Soul CD Various Adam Ace Corp ACD-0014 1989
Purple Wind Purple Wind CD Gelb, Philip Ryokan (BMI) Ryokan 1 1995 Shakuhachi/electronics improvisation.

Purple_Fields CD Ritchie, Brian Tairaku



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