Recordings featuring traditional Japanese instruments.

Album Cover	Media Title	Media Type	Artist	Media Label	Catalog Number	Date	Synopsis
	Lao Tzu-tao Te Ching With Ursula K Le Guin	AC	Barton, Todd				Todd backs up renown author Ursula Le Guin in her own rendition of this seminal work.
	Mountain Ghost Breathing	AC	Barton, Todd				A two song cassette of pieces inspired by the paintings of Barton's friend Bob Kostka, whose work also graces the cover. Side A is "Mountain Ghost Breathing," which is made up of altered digital samples of shakuhachi sounds—pure tones, multiphonics, "flutter tonguing,"—you name it—creating sounds that are ultimately very un-flute like. At one point an ominous low drone, reminiscent of something being bowed, pours in and then out while whispy bursts like escaping steam punctuate the upper levels. It's similar to the way Barton describes Kostka's paintings in the notes as living in that "fleeting membrane between the Void and Form." On the second side, he shows off his diverse shakuhachi techniques with stylized bursts on a piece called "Emerging," a slowish, sparse improv with added echo and some synthesized wind sounds over a "live recording of 4 to 7 foot metal wind chimes in a wind storm," albeit a fairly gentle wind storm. (Erik Bluhm, 2019)
	Ro	CD	Barton, Todd			2003	Works for 2.7 Jinashi flute
	Shakuhachi Ma	CD	Barton, Todd			2002
	T'ai Chi Shakuhachi	AC	Barton, Todd				Shakuhachi improvisations recorded while observing the movement and forms of the martial art T'ai Chi Chuan.
	Hibiki - Tokyo Inter-arts In Berlin	CD	Battenberg, Hermann		TIA-96	1996	Classical pieces for shakuhachi, koto, shamisen and voice.
	Art of Japanese Koto And Bamboo Flute	CD	Bell, Clive				Shakuhachi, koto, shamisen and vocals.
	Kurokami	CD	Bell, Clive	Saydisc Records	CD-SDL 367	1988	Shakuhachi, koto, shamisen and vocals.
	Shakuhachi - Clive Bell	CD	Bell, Clive	ARC Music Int.	EUCD 1135	Unknown
	Shakuhachi - The Japanese Flute - Clive Bell	AC	Bell, Clive	ARC Music Int.	EUMC 1135
	Wild Silence	AC	Bennett, Elizabeth Reian	Bennett Productions		1994	Kinko and Meian Honkyoku. Themes of nature and meditation.
	Bamboo Flute Lullabies of Japan	CD	Berger, Ron				Shakuhachi with koto, guitar, keyboards and percussion. Melodies from the folksong tradition of rural Japan.
	Heart of Bamboo	CD	Blasdel, Christopher Yohmei				Poetry and music in the zen tradition.
	Night of the Garuda	CD	Blasdel, Christopher Yohmei
	Striking Light, Striking Dark	CD	Blasdel, Christopher Yohmei	Ears Wide Open Records	EWO 005	2015	The music on this CD consists of poetry set to original compositions by the phenomenal singer Sasha Bogdanowitsch and shakuhachi master Christopher Yohmei Blasdel.
	Voices from Afar - Voices From Within	CD	Blasdel, Christopher Yohmei	Teichiku Records Co., Ltd. Japan	TECY-28001		Shakuhachi. koto, shamisen, oud and voice.
	Watching the Waves	AC	Blasdel, Christopher Yohmei				Shakuhachi accompanies poetry with traditional Japanese and zen Buddhist themes. Classical and modern poems with honkyoku.
	Zen Reveries	CD	Blasdel, Christopher Yohmei	Moonbridge	MBR 1023	1996
	Sabbaticus Rex	CD	Boots, Cornelius Shinzen	Zeroth Law		2009	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)	CD	Boots, Cornelius Shinzen	Zeroth Law		2018	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		Boots, Cornelius Shinzen			2017	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	CD	Boots, Cornelius Shinzen	Zeroth Law		2013	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	CD	Boots, Cornelius Shinzen	Zeroth Law		2011	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	CD	Boots, Cornelius Shinzen	Zeroth Law		2012	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)	CD	Boots, Cornelius Shinzen	Zeroth Law		April 7, 2019	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.
	Instruments of Peace		Brandwein, Mary Lu
	Hollow Bell	CD	Brooks, Ray				Kinko honkyoku.

27 Recordings