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Hekitan No. 1 appears on the following albums:

Album	Shakuhachi	Koto	Shamisen
Flutist from the East Volume 1  (Listen)
This work was composed for the 16th regular concert of Kan (a group of composers), and was first performed by Kohei NISHIKAWA (Shinobue) and Teiko Kikuchi (17-strings bass koto). Accurate, skillful technique is required for the performance of this piece and each part (Shinobue and 17-strings koto) is composed of strongly independent phrases. Interesting Japanese traditional instruments are prominent when the two parts are combined. As a whole, one hears a quiet tension dominating, but listening closely, the romantic sentiment of the composer progressively becomes more audible.