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This is a Modern piece .

Requiem Six Twenty appears on the following albums:

Album	Shakuhachi	Koto	Shamisen
Train to Okinawa  (Listen)	Lee, Dr Riley Kelly
The lush, cavernous acoustic quality of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Perth orchestral studio, '620' made it a pleasure to record this music there. The building, however, is soon to be bulldozed as the ABC moves to smaller premises, due to Government cost-cutting. This piece was named as a reminder of almost 40 years of musical and technical excellence associated with this studio. The shakuhachi part is Riley's arrangement of the piece "Tamuke" (offering, or prayer) from the Zen Buddhist repertoire. It is traditionally performed as a prayer for the safe passage of one who has recently departed from this life. Peter composed the cello part.