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This is a Modern piece .

Theme appears on the following albums:

Album	Shakuhachi	Koto	Shamisen
Bamboo-Na 2  (Listen)	Mitsuhashi Kifu
The structure of this music is guajira, a typical kind of Latin music, to which I've added the shakuhachi sound. It is the bass line that decides the rhythm, so the music has a special tempo to it. The adlib solo in the middle is the special point so be sure to take a listen. This song was our first original number when Mitsuhashi Kifu and myself formed the group which was later to become Bamboo-Na. This musical experiment was the motivation for us to take it further.