Lamb of God's "Blacken the Cursed Sun" played on Zen bamboo flute: shakuhachi 竹の尺八

Arranged and Performed by Cornelius 深禅 Boots.
Live at the Berkeley Rose Labyrinth May 11, 2013.
Played on a 1.8 jinashi shakuhachi crafted by Jon Kypros.
This video shot and edited by Marco Antonelli.

Featured on the solo shakuhachi "heavy metal bamboo" album HOLY FLUTE
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This rock shakuhachi arrangement features a couple of "expanded techniques" on the shakuhachi: circular breathing, circular pulsing and persistent "doodle" triple-tonguing.
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The YIN album project of meditation music played on bass bamboo flutes in a cave
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Seeing as the shakuhachi has such a history creating and performing "nature music" (with songs such as "Three Valleys" "Floating Clouds", "Waterfall", "Nesting of the Cranes" and many more) I have tapped into this tradition and begun to create new nature pieces called "Renegade Nature Music." Some of these are original compositions and some are arrangements or re-imaginings of nature music from other genres, such as classic rock, metal, and blues. This song is the most "extreme" metal that I have attempted to translate into a solo shakuhachi arrangement, and it is a testament to the great riffage and compositional chops of the boys in Lamb of God that a viable version of this was even possible.

These raw bamboo flutes evoke the breathy sound of sacred mysteries and have been used as meditation tools by esoteric Zen monks and mountain hermits for over 1000 years. Exploring these earthy sounds creates a connection to Nature and primordial dream states of consciousness: the trees singing, the mud chanting, the cave yawning, the sage wandering, the invisible glowing. The primary solo repertoire, created by Buddhist monks in ancient Japan, grew out of breath awareness practices, chant, and the contemplation of Nature and the nature of Existence.

Shakuhachi Blues Master & Bamboo Gospel Preacher. From hymns to heavy metal, traditional and new music for standard & bass (Taimu) shakuhachi flute, the robust woodwind of Japan. Boldly evolving the deep roots of Zen Buddhist shakuhachi, rooted in aliveness, awareness and the natural world. Avant Nature Music. Zen Taoist Forest Hymns & Anthems. Zen shakuhachi, hotchiku, Taimu. Actively merging the threads of Watazumido, Eric Dolphy and Son House.

I am committed to woodwind performance as a living art form in collaboration with the natural material, with plant consciousness. Because of this, I only play on jinashi or 100% bamboo, unlacquered shakuhachi, hotchiku and Taimu flutes. 竹の尺八

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Cornelius Boots creates and performs advanced nature and alternative world music on big bamboo flutes. A professional woodwind wizard since 1989, Boots is known as the leader and composer of the world's only original bass clarinet quartet, Edmund Welles. Cornelius is the first student of Grandmaster Michael Chikuzen Gould to have earned a Shihan (master teaching license) and was given the shakuhachi name 深禅 "Shinzen" (depth Zen or deep Zen). In addition to teaching, Cornelius has recorded and written, in shakuhachi calligraphic notation, a series of 27 etudes (mukyoku) for Taimu shakuhachi. He plays all types of flutes, but specializes in jinashi and large-bore shakuhachi.

With his latest releases, Bamboo Rising and Holy Flute , Cornelius continues to develop a soul-based, virtuosic, genre-denying composition and shakuhachi performance style incorporating rock, blues, metal and classical Zen elements. He calls the result “bamboo gospel.” A robust, expressive solo style that merges his own diverse 33-year woodwind experience with the Zen Buddhist shakuhachi tradition, rooted in aliveness, awareness and the natural world.
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