Mujitsu and Tairaku's Shakuhachi BBQ

I love to play Fukuda Rando's music; have studied several pieces, solo and with koto. What I enjoy most is the space he leaves in his compositions for your own expression, immagination and emotion. I like to play his music thinking in sentences, from which I then try to build a complete story. And those stories never are the same, so they never become boring.

Yeah, the "evanescent" thing is right on with how I hear it. At least in the recordings I've heard, Rando seems to be aiming to get the music out as "pure" as possible, rather than using the physicality of the flute as part of the performance.

Jean wrote:

I also love to play Fukuda Rando's compositions. I play several pieces and I play them often.

I didn't know there was a set of piano notation. Please, Glenn can you tell me where and how can I buy these Fukuda Rando's set for piano and shakuhachi ? I have a pianist friend with whom I would like to play these pieces. Thank you.

Jean

It really is fun to play them with piano. the set has the the shakuhachi part above the piano part for all the pieces (of course in staff notation) as well.

2 ways- i found it available through Hogaku Journal
http://hj-how.com/SHOP/5269.html
not sure if they ship internationally, on 1st glance didn't see anything but inside-japan rates

Yokoyama Katsuya sensei's Kokusai Shakuhachi Kenshukan actually publishes it, and that's how I got it, directly from Kakizakai Kaoru sensei when i was in Tokyo. I would imagine they would ship, assuming you work out some way to pay. And English should be fine if Japanese were a problem. the price on my set was 3,500 yen.
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sometimes his shakuhachi sounded like a voice, sometimes a violin

My teacher was telling me that a great deal of shakuhachi music comes from different voice traditions, some more chant like and some more song like.  He suggests trying to "sing" the Rando piece that I have worked on.

You're right PSmith ! there are not many koto players in our countries to play with, at least not here in Switzerland, but in exchange there are many piano players.

Hogaku Journal said they may send a copy of "Piano shakuhachi notation anthologie Fukuda Rando" internationally by EMS at a shipping cost of 1800 yen and pay by credit card. But we must order through the shopping cart on their site web, the problem is that everything is in Japanese and my Japanese skills are very limited, I try to cope by using the google translator! If you know Japanese you can order it without problem and they deliver anywhere in the world. (Kokusai Shakuhachi Kenshukan not answered me yet)

In our countries there are also a lot of guitar players, thereon Andrew MacGregor recorded a CD "Music for guitar & shakuhachi" where there are three pieces of Fukuda Rando and two pieces of Miyata Kohachiro among others, and he holds the scores (staff notation) available to guitar and shakuhachi in Western notation, I got it and it's very nice to play with a guitarist, and more if the guitarist plays the strings by plucking near the bridge, resulting in a "effect koto" sound very interesting. Moreover in his CD the guitarist Marion Schaap accompanying Andrew uses this technique. You can order the CD or scores notation directly on the Andrew MacGregor site www.shakuhachiflutes.com

I really like his pieces and think that they are beautiful.
I have recently recorded a piece (Gekko Roteki) at my home in Beirut and posted it on youtube.
Here is the link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clNivBlYCxA

Best regards.

Kyle.

Last edited by Kyle Kamal Helou (2009-07-13 07:29:08)

Kyle Kamal Helou wrote:

I really like his pieces and think that they are beautiful.
I have recently recorded a piece (Gekko Roteki) at my home in Beirut and posted it on youtube.
Here is the link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clNivBlYCxA

Indeed a nice recording.

Zak

great playing Kyle!! What flute do you use?

Last edited by geni (2009-07-13 23:23:33)

Kyle Kamal Helou wrote:

I really like his pieces and think that they are beautiful.
I have recently recorded a piece (Gekko Roteki) at my home in Beirut and posted it on youtube.
Here is the link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clNivBlYCxA

Best regards.

Kyle.

すごい！　YES! very nice indeed.

Really nice Kyle!!!

I really enjoy Rando.  I was fortunate enought to pick up his collection of notation and also a cd of his works by Yokiyama Sensei.  Kikyo Genso Kyoku, Tababito no Uta, and Gekko Roteki are 3 that i have been working with.