Plant Spirit Medicine traditions have existed for thousands of years, working with Ayahuasca, Peyote, Psilocybin Mushrooms, Iboga, Cannabis and other psychedelic plants in a ceremonial setting. Each of these traditions has its own songs and music that collectively might be described as Medicine Music. More recently Indigenous musicians have begun to make albums of their […]
Dear Sjon, Thank you for your kind comments about the Night Journey album with Matthew Barley. This a suite of pieces for shakuhachi and cello that are totally improvised. You asked me the question “How do you improvise?” I find that to be a fascinating question, and as I don’t really know the answer, it […]
An article by Adrian Freedman on different aspects of the shakuhachi and its relationship to Zen practice.
An article by Adrian Freedman about his first-hand experience of making a shakuhachi with master make John Kaizan Neptune.
An article written by Adrian Freedman for composers wishing to experiment with writing new music for shakuhachi, koto with general information about Japanese traditional music.
