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Okuda Atsuya

奥田 敦也

Okuda Atsuya
Shakuhachi
okuda@zensabo.com

In 1985 Atsuya Okuda turned his back on a twenty year career playing jazz trumpet, and dedicated himself to teaching shakuhachi in Tokyo. Okuda subscribes to a purist, Zen-oriented approach to the instrument. He cuts bamboo in the hills and crafts his own flutes, which remain as natural and unworked as possible - no lacquered bore, no inlaid mouthpiece. This type of shakuhachi is called hocchiku, and the sound is fragile and intimate, a world away from the full, projected sound of the concert hall performer. In fact Okuda was apparently reluctant to make a recording at all, but we should be glad he has, for he is probably the finest player of his type since the death in 1992 of the Zen monk Watazumi (acclaimed by Steve Lacy as his favourite improviser in Wire 225). Okuda's sound may be quiet, but his playing has terrific subtlety and a patience of almost geological dimensions - if a rock in a Zen garden could play music, this is what! it would sound like.

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Alben

Sound of Zen, The Sound of Zen, The

Okuda Atsuya plays Jinashi-nobe-Shakuhachi

Aufgenommene Stücke

StückeKanjiLängeAlbumInstrument
Play Button Honte Shirabe 本手調子 04'56 Sound of Zen, The Shakuhachi
Play Button Kokû (Don't know which version) 虚空 17'09 Sound of Zen, The Shakuhachi
Play Button Ōshū Sashi 奥州薩字 07'40 Sound of Zen, The Shakuhachi
Play Button Shin Kyorei 真虚霊 12'03 Sound of Zen, The Shakuhachi
Play Button Tamuke 手向 05'53 Sound of Zen, The Shakuhachi
Play Button Tsuru no Sugomori (Don't know which version) 鶴の巣籠 09'52 Sound of Zen, The Shakuhachi