Shakuhachi Music Video "Green Swampy Water" Blues by Cornelius Boots 竹の尺八 (Andy Westhoff: director)

Natural Shakuhachi Music by Cornelius Boots, video by Andrew Lloyd Westhoff, animation by Chris Conlin. https://corneliusboots.com/ http://andywesthoff.com/
From the album Bamboo Rising (Shakuhachi Unleashed Vol. II)
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"Green Swampy Water" written & performed by Cornelius Boots on a root-end 2.74 Taimu jinashi shakuhachi flute made by Ken Mujitsu LaCosse and a 1.8 jinashi shakuhachi made by Jon Kypros.

Watch it LIVE at the World Shakuhachi Festival London 2018,    • Cornelius Boots, shakuhachi master-Wo...  

The first ever music video from shakuhachi master and woodwind visionary Cornelius Boots, “Green Swampy Water” is an elemental exploration of wind, water and wood. Composed and performed by Boots, director Andy Westhoff undertook the task of unearthing and presenting images and narrative from within this solo rascal-sage realm of breath-powered prowess. Everything here is 100% breath-powered and 100% plant-based. It is harder to make robust tunes with that formula than we tend to stop and think about, but this is part of the deeper mission going on here.

“Music is itself in itself; it is not a symbol or pointer to anything else. Nature is Life, all life breathes, breathing bamboo makes sound and sound is shaped into music. Nature, life, breath, music—soulful, earthy, expressive, gutsy. The essence of this starts within, then its energy can be felt, seen, heard, tasted and smelled. Is it magic? See for yourself.”

A true solo blues composition in the style of Buddy Guy, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Muddy Waters, Elmore James, and many other fine American musicians. Buddhist Blues, expression of original breath on bamboo shakuhachi: alternative world music, bamboo gospel, classical cross-under, avant nature music.

Inspired by an incredible green swamp in Bohemian Paradise, Czech Republic
(   • Taimu shakuhachi improv at a Bohemian...  ) Also named as a tribute to the Elf song "Black Swampy Water." Elf was a progressive honky-tonk electric blues band from NY featuring Ronnie James Dio, the one and only dark opera hobbit with the golden voice.

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Founder/composer of Black Earth Shakuhachi School, Cornelius Boots has forged his own eclectic style as a professional woodwind performer since 1989. A licensed shakuhachi grandmaster, prize-winning composer and former bass clarinet performance innovator, he is actively merging the threads of Watazumido, Eric Dolphy and Son House on jinashi (all-natural) and Taimu (bass) shakuhachi.

Boots has generated and released an entire body of new songs and compositions for these large, raw and rare bamboo flutes of Japanese Zen Buddhist origin: mukyoku (27 pieces for Taimu) and Shakuhachi Unleashed (48 virtuosic songs of rock, Zen, blues, metal and more). In 2018, he was a finalist in the World Shakuhachi Competition, a featured performer for Sony PlayStation’s E3 press conference (LA) and a featured performer/lecturer at both the World Bamboo Congress (Xalapa, Mexico) and the World Shakuhachi Festival (London).

A three-time graduate of the renowned Jacobs School of Music (BM Classical Clarinet ’97, BS Audio Recording ’97, MM Jazz Studies ’99), Boots’ training and work experience is deep and diverse: jazz saxophonist, Dixieland clarinetist, symphony bass clarinetist, funk and progressive rock bandleader and founder/composer of the world’s only composing bass clarinet quartet, Edmund Welles. With his latest three albums, the Shakuhachi Unleashed series—Holy Flute (2017), Bamboo Rising (2018), and Sacred Root (2019)—Cornelius continues to develop “bamboo gospel,” a robust, cross-cultural solo style utilizing rare breath-defying techniques and panstylistic prowess.

A Performer’s Certificate Awardee from David N. Baker’s Jazz Studies program at Indiana University, Cornelius is the first student of Grandmaster Michael Chikuzen Gould to have earned a Shihan (master teaching license) in 2013 and was given the shakuhachi name 深禅 "Shinzen" (depth Zen or deep Zen). First-prize winner of the 2013 International Clarinet Composition Competition, Boots has also received commissions and awards from Chamber Music America, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Areon Flutes, International Songwriting Competition and Meet the Composer.
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