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This is a Modern piece . This piece was composed for shakuhachi by Neptune, John Kaizan in 1993 .

Shades of Blue appears on the following albums:

Album	Shakuhachi	Koto	Shamisen
River Rhythm  (Listen)	Neptune, John Kaizan
The "blues" comes in a lot of different flavors. The second section features a nagaswaram, a double-reed instrument that is probably the loudest wind instrument I have ever heard. The combination of nagaswaram and tavil, used during weddings and other ceremonies, has been described as "the village PA system."