Music for solo shakuhachi. Seven meditative pieces for Japanese bamboo flute. Three classical Japanese Honkyoku pieces from the Zen tradition, three original compositions by Adrian Freedman, and one piece by the Japanese composer Fukuda Rando.
The shakuhachi is an instrument that really comes into its own when played as a solo instrument.
It has its own repertoire of solo pieces, the Honkyoku, that originated within an ancient Zen tradition of playing the shakuhachi and meditating. Adrian spent seven years in Japan immersed in learning these pieces, as well as composing new pieces for shakuhachi. The album Music on the Edge of Silence reflects something of this journey, from ancient roots to new flowerings.
Read more about the shakuhachi here:
My Shakuhachi Journey Music on the Edge of Silence - Music project informationTrack Listing/Duration:
- 1. Honshirabe – Traditional Honkyoku 07.12
- 2. Spirit Rising – A. Freedman 06.26
- 3. Sanya – Traditional Honkyoku 15.44
- 4. Forest Breath – A. Freedman 07.47
- 5. Miyama Higurashi – Fukuda Rando 07.20
- 6. Tamuke – Traditional Honkyoku 09.51
- 7. Moonlight – A. Freedman 06.28
Total playing time: 68:40.
Album Credits:
- Recorded St Johns Church, Totnes, September 2007.
- Recorded and Mixed by Adrian Freedman
- Mastered by Chris Gray, Troubadour Studios, Cornwall, UK
- Produced by Adrian Freedman
- Cover art, Noriko Moonbird
- Design and Layout, Amida Harvey
Starkly beautiful… stunning melodic purity.
Natasha Kuler-von-der-Luhe
These traditional and modern compositions are a searing, spacious, zen meditation. Truly sound on the edge of silence. Some still music is soothing. This isn’t. It’s a focused call to attention
Frazer Reid
Adrian’s shakuhachi music lifts my heart, pacifies my mind and sends my spirit soaring. This music above all captures a quality of deep rarefied peace.
Matthew Newsome
Adrian’s music is ethereal, evocative, profoundly soothing and a source of great spiritual sustenance. There is a deep devotional and contemplative quality to every offering, conveyed with genuine depth and integrity that retains an inescapable sense of the sacred throughout. Adrian is a master musician, skillfully conjuring a deeply healing sense of spaciousness, resonance and lasting clarity. There is such a purity, and a delicate beauty within his music.
Marc Frank, Counsellor
Solo Shakuhachi Concert Review - Natasha Kuler-von-der-LuheAdrian’s music is from a dimension outside of our time and space, where pure Peace and Stillness dwell, and it is here that I am taken to when I listen to his music.
Erika Tourell, Yoga teacher
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