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Cornelius Shinzen Boots

深禅

Boots, Cornelius Shinzen
Nacido 1974

Compositor & Shakuhachi
cb@corneliusboots.com
http://www.corneliusboots.com/

Cornelius Boots (MM, Shihan) is a woodwind composer-performer, jinashi shakuhachi master, breathing ambassador and educator. Active internationally since 1990, Boots' love affair with reeds and bamboo began at age 9. His shakuhachi name is 深禅 (Shinzen) deep Zen and he is a licensed shihan (master) in the dynamic Zen lineage of Watazumido, the first student of Grandmaster Michael Chikuzen Gould to have earned a Shihan (2013). After a 30-year career of high-caliber jazz, classical, rock and experimental music activities on multiple woodwinds (including three music degrees from the Jacobs School of Music, BM Clarinet '97, BS Audio '97, MM Jazz Studies '99), Boots has positioned himself at the crossroads of personal expression and divine revelation. Influenced by forest ecology and wood elementals, he now only plays bamboo shakuhachi as a living art form evolving from the depths of contemplative Zen Taoist practice, specializing in jinashi and large-bore shakuhachi.

Audiences can expect Buddhist nature hymns, original blues compositions and rock anthems on standard & Taimu (bass) shakuhachi: bamboo gospel. Previously, Boots was the founder and leader of Edmund Welles: the bass clarinet quartet and Sabbaticus Rex (easy listening for dinosaurs). He has contributed to film scores and collaborative projects, released over 20 albums as a leader and created dozens of original scores and instructional materials for his private lesson studio, including in shakuhachi calligraphic notation, a series of 27 etudes (mukyoku 無曲) for Taimu shakuhachi. He has won composition awards (International Clarinet Association, 1st Place, 2013; International Songwriting Competition, 2nd Place, 2006) and received grants and commissions from Chamber Music America and The Doris Duke Foundation, San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music, Areon Flutes, Crescent Duo and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Boots has performed concerts in Japan, festivals in Switzerland, Italy, Prague, San Francisco and Chicago and given lecture-performances at Esalen, S.A.N.D., San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Cal Arts, UCLA, Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Sanshinji Temple, University of Memphis, University of Mississippi (Ole Miss), University of Southern Oregon and beyond.

His two recent albums, Mountain Hermit's Secret Wisdom (2013) and Holy Flute (Shakuhachi Unleashed Vol. I) (2017), reveal the yin and yang energies infusing his pioneering approach to this ancient bamboo meditation instrument, featuring virtuosic new solo compositions, rock, blues and metal cover song arrangements (Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Danzig, and more), and basic honkyoku 本曲 on large flutes recorded in a cave in Nevada County, California.

Cornelius is a Vandoren performing artist, a Mujitsu Shakuhachi and Chikuzen Studios affiliate, and a member of the International Shakuhachi Society, the World Flute Society, Chamber Music America, New Music USA and Save the Redwoods.


Profesores

Estudiantes

Álbumes

  Sabbaticus Rex Sabbaticus Rex

Album by Sabbaticus Rex. This is sound, but not music. It is primordial easy-listening for dinosaurs: slowly shifting elemental improvisations from fat flutes and big gongs. Two full length discs, completely acoustic: shakuhachi, taimu shakuhachi, and gongs.

Bamboo Rising (Shakuhachi Unleashed, Vol. II) Bamboo Rising (Shakuhachi Unleashed, Vol. II)

The hot breath of Life––as Music. Solo classic rock shakuhachi. Virtuosic nature hymns & anthems. Offering up the breadth of big bamboo's breath-powered musicality. Continuing the Shakuhachi Unleashed Series that started with Holy Flute, Bamboo Rising presents a unique style of advanced, expressive solo shakuhachi performance: hermit blues, bamboo gospel. Original compositions and classic rock and metal arrangements--with the mojo intact. This album is dedicated to Son House.

Holy Flute Holy Flute

Hard rock and sacred nature music are brought together in the voice of the solo flute: the Japanese Zen shakuhachi. This bamboo flute is known for being evocative and provocative, ethereal, and very difficult to play. The breadth of its breath-powered musicality is brought to you in Holy Flute. This album combines the energy and structure of carefully chosen rock songs--originals and covers--with the inspiring, one-of-a-kind sounds of the shakuhachi.

Mountain Hermit's Secret Wisdom Mountain Hermit's Secret Wisdom

Bass Zen bamboo flutes recorded in a cave. Shakuhachi flute. Contemplative nature music inspired by Zen and Taoist philosophy, breath cultivation and the texture of the living moment. Disc includes files of notation, photos, artwork, and extended notes.

Mukyoku: Compositions for Giant Zen Bamboo Flutes Mukyoku: Compositions for Giant Zen Bamboo Flutes

Renegade Nature Music. These large-bore, raw bamboo flutes evoke the breathy sound of sacred mysteries and create a connection to primordial states of consciousness: the trees singing, the mud chanting, the cave yawning, the sage wandering.

Sabbaticus Rex II Sabbaticus Rex II

Album by Sabbaticus Rex. Walking the razor's edge between the mystical and the scientific, sabbaticus rex II archives the live creation of spontaneous sound structures from bass bamboo shakuhachi flutes, overtone gongs, and the one-and-only Bazantar.

Sacred Root: Kung Fu Flute & Buddhist Blues (Shakuhachi Unleashed Vol. III) Sacred Root: Kung Fu Flute & Buddhist Blues (Shakuhachi Unleashed Vol. III)

The final album of an adventurous 3-album cycle showcasing new "blues, rock and beyond" repertoire for solo jinashi shakuhachi and Taimu (bass shakuhachi). Beauty, grit, energy and depth. Featuring original compositions alongside kung fu movie music from Bruce Lee and David Carradine films, actual blues songs from Elmore James and Junior Kimbrough, some Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Primus, Fishbone and more. Features the compositional namesake of the Black Earth Shakuhachi School.

Pistas Grabadas

PiezasKanjiLongitudÁlbumInstrumento
AH & OM take the Stage 06'17 Mukyoku: Compositions for Giant Zen Bamboo Flutes Shakuhachi
arundinaria tecta Sabbaticus Rex II Shakuhachi
Baby Bear Drinks Tea 02'03 Bamboo Rising (Shakuhachi Unleashed, Vol. II) Shakuhachi
bambusa membranacea Sabbaticus Rex Shakuhachi
Banshiki (Don't know which version) 盤渉 08'27 Mountain Hermit's Secret Wisdom Shakuhachi
Battle Without Honor or Humanity 01'49 Sacred Root: Kung Fu Flute & Buddhist Blues (Shakuhachi Unleashed Vol. III) Shakuhachi
Beautiful Demon 02'42 Sacred Root: Kung Fu Flute & Buddhist Blues (Shakuhachi Unleashed Vol. III) Shakuhachi
Behind the Wall of Sleep 04'03 Holy Flute Shakuhachi
Big Boss 01'33 Sacred Root: Kung Fu Flute & Buddhist Blues (Shakuhachi Unleashed Vol. III) Shakuhachi
Black Earth 04'29 Sacred Root: Kung Fu Flute & Buddhist Blues (Shakuhachi Unleashed Vol. III) Shakuhachi
Blacken the Cursed Sun 03'14 Holy Flute Shakuhachi
Breathe 05'04 Sacred Root: Kung Fu Flute & Buddhist Blues (Shakuhachi Unleashed Vol. III) Shakuhachi
Chaos Return 05'16 Mukyoku: Compositions for Giant Zen Bamboo Flutes Shakuhachi
Chim Chim's Badass Revenge 03'11 Sacred Root: Kung Fu Flute & Buddhist Blues (Shakuhachi Unleashed Vol. III) Shakuhachi
chimonobambusa tumidissinoda Sabbaticus Rex II Shakuhachi
Cosmographer's Daughter, The 04'10 Mukyoku: Compositions for Giant Zen Bamboo Flutes Shakuhachi
Creature with the Atom Brain 02'42 Bamboo Rising (Shakuhachi Unleashed, Vol. II) Shakuhachi
Damaged Soul 03'57 Holy Flute Shakuhachi
Darani 陀羅尼 09'56 Mountain Hermit's Secret Wisdom Shakuhachi
Death of the Samurai 02'27 Sacred Root: Kung Fu Flute & Buddhist Blues (Shakuhachi Unleashed Vol. III) Shakuhachi
Demiurge Takes Form, The 04'56 Mukyoku: Compositions for Giant Zen Bamboo Flutes Shakuhachi
dendrocalamus Sabbaticus Rex Shakuhachi
Devil Points, The 03'18 Holy Flute Shakuhachi
Doppelganger 04'38 Mukyoku: Compositions for Giant Zen Bamboo Flutes Shakuhachi
Ekoh 回向 06'29 Mountain Hermit's Secret Wisdom Shakuhachi
Fisticuffs 03'26 Sacred Root: Kung Fu Flute & Buddhist Blues (Shakuhachi Unleashed Vol. III) Shakuhachi
Freebird 03'29 Bamboo Rising (Shakuhachi Unleashed, Vol. II) Shakuhachi
Generuslu 02'23 Holy Flute Shakuhachi
gigantochloa luteostriat Sabbaticus Rex Shakuhachi
Green Swampy Water 04'09 Bamboo Rising (Shakuhachi Unleashed, Vol. II) Shakuhachi
Greening of Mount Subasio, The 03'06 Bamboo Rising (Shakuhachi Unleashed, Vol. II) Shakuhachi
Half of the Beast 06'06 Mukyoku: Compositions for Giant Zen Bamboo Flutes Shakuhachi
Heaven and Hell 05'01 Holy Flute Shakuhachi
Hey Joe 02'05 Sacred Root: Kung Fu Flute & Buddhist Blues (Shakuhachi Unleashed Vol. III) Shakuhachi
Hung from the Moon 03'49 Bamboo Rising (Shakuhachi Unleashed, Vol. II) Shakuhachi
Hymn to the She-Dragon of the Deep 04'52 Holy Flute Shakuhachi
In Which the Sound Comtemplates You... 04'59 Mountain Hermit's Secret Wisdom Shakuhachi
indocalamus tessalatus Sabbaticus Rex Shakuhachi
It Hurts Me Too 03'48 Sacred Root: Kung Fu Flute & Buddhist Blues (Shakuhachi Unleashed Vol. III) Shakuhachi
Kung Fu & The Silent Flute 02'09 Sacred Root: Kung Fu Flute & Buddhist Blues (Shakuhachi Unleashed Vol. III) Shakuhachi
Mysteries of Harmony and Focus, The 04'33 Mukyoku: Compositions for Giant Zen Bamboo Flutes Shakuhachi
Mysteries of Harmony and Focus, The 04'29 Sacred Root: Kung Fu Flute & Buddhist Blues (Shakuhachi Unleashed Vol. III) Shakuhachi
No Quarter 04'50 Holy Flute Shakuhachi
Obscured by Clouds 02'47 Bamboo Rising (Shakuhachi Unleashed, Vol. II) Shakuhachi
One Brown Mouse 02'45 Bamboo Rising (Shakuhachi Unleashed, Vol. II) Shakuhachi
Other, The 10'07 Mukyoku: Compositions for Giant Zen Bamboo Flutes Shakuhachi
Over the Hills and Far Away 04'33 Bamboo Rising (Shakuhachi Unleashed, Vol. II) Shakuhachi
oxynanthera Sabbaticus Rex Shakuhachi
phyllostachys angusta Sabbaticus Rex Shakuhachi
pseudoxytenanthera Sabbaticus Rex Shakuhachi
Purgatory 04'08 Holy Flute Shakuhachi
Purgatory 04'33 Mukyoku: Compositions for Giant Zen Bamboo Flutes Shakuhachi
Purple Haze 02'12 Sacred Root: Kung Fu Flute & Buddhist Blues (Shakuhachi Unleashed Vol. III) Shakuhachi
Pythias Dualis 06'48 Mukyoku: Compositions for Giant Zen Bamboo Flutes Shakuhachi
Rebel Rouser 02'14 Sacred Root: Kung Fu Flute & Buddhist Blues (Shakuhachi Unleashed Vol. III) Shakuhachi
Return & Enter the Dragon 02'13 Sacred Root: Kung Fu Flute & Buddhist Blues (Shakuhachi Unleashed Vol. III) Shakuhachi
Run to the Hills 03'13 Bamboo Rising (Shakuhachi Unleashed, Vol. II) Shakuhachi
Shadow of the Wind 04'17 Bamboo Rising (Shakuhachi Unleashed, Vol. II) Shakuhachi
Shakthamunki 08'16 Mukyoku: Compositions for Giant Zen Bamboo Flutes Shakuhachi
Shakthamunki 08'36 Sacred Root: Kung Fu Flute & Buddhist Blues (Shakuhachi Unleashed Vol. III) Shakuhachi
shibataea kumasaca Sabbaticus Rex Shakuhachi
Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Part II) 01'47 Sacred Root: Kung Fu Flute & Buddhist Blues (Shakuhachi Unleashed Vol. III) Shakuhachi
Shingetsu 心月 06'57 Mountain Hermit's Secret Wisdom Shakuhachi
Shunyata (Boots) 08'04 Mountain Hermit's Secret Wisdom Shakuhachi
Sleeping Dragon 07'43 Mountain Hermit's Secret Wisdom Shakuhachi
Snake Dreams of Dragon 02'14 Bamboo Rising (Shakuhachi Unleashed, Vol. II) Shakuhachi
Sycamore Trees 03'52 Bamboo Rising (Shakuhachi Unleashed, Vol. II) Shakuhachi
Taste of Nothing 02'59 Holy Flute Shakuhachi
tetragonocalamus angulatus Sabbaticus Rex II Shakuhachi
Theme of the Mendicant 05'23 Mukyoku: Compositions for Giant Zen Bamboo Flutes Shakuhachi
thyrsostachys siamensis Sabbaticus Rex Shakuhachi
Tree & the Maiden, The 04'17 Mukyoku: Compositions for Giant Zen Bamboo Flutes Shakuhachi
Until You Call On the Dark 04'24 Holy Flute Shakuhachi
Wayward Meteor, The 01'55 Bamboo Rising (Shakuhachi Unleashed, Vol. II) Shakuhachi
Year of the Goat God of the Flute 02'08 Holy Flute Shakuhachi
You're Gonna Find Your Mistake 04'03 Sacred Root: Kung Fu Flute & Buddhist Blues (Shakuhachi Unleashed Vol. III) Shakuhachi

Compuesto o Arreglado

Shakuhachi Obras
Título Kanji Año Título Alternativo
AH & OM take the Stage
2009-2010

Chaos Return
2009-2010

Cosmographer's Daughter, The
2009-2010

Demiurge Takes Form, The
2009-2010

Doppelganger
2009-2010

Half of the Beast
2009-2010

In Which the Sound Comtemplates You...
2009-2010

Mysteries of Harmony and Focus, The
2009-2010

Other, The
2009-2010

Purgatory
2009-2010

Pythias Dualis
2009-2010

Shakthamunki
2009-2010

Shunyata (Boots)
2009-2010

Sleeping Dragon
2009-2010

Theme of the Mendicant
2009-2010

Tree & the Maiden, The
2009-2010

Hymn to the She-Dragon of the Deep
2012

Greening of Mount Subasio, The
2014

Taste of Nothing
2014

Baby Bear Drinks Tea
2015

Death of the Samurai
2015

Generuslu
2015

Year of the Goat God of the Flute
2015

Devil Points, The
2016

Snake Dreams of Dragon
2016

Green Swampy Water
2017

Beautiful Demon
2018

Black Earth
2018