Staring at the Full Moon

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AUTHOR: Massimo Claus

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Massimo Claus dedicated this album to the mystic texture of the Shakuhachi, the Japanese flaute. These musics are ideal for study, meditation and relax moments.

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LO SHAKUHACHI

This Japanese musical instrument is a Japanese straight bamboo flute with five holes, four front and one rear. It was introduced in Japan from China and used in the Zen Buddhist liturgy.

Together with koto and shamisen, the shakuhachi was the protagonist of the music of the Edo period (1603-1867).

Due to numerous changes during the Edo period, many samurai found themselves to be ronin (without master). At the time, there were also beggars who played shakuhachi flutes. These people were referred to with the term komoso (monks from the straw mat), because they wore a mat on their backs, on which they slept, made of straw. The life of these beggars intrigued many ronin, who became part of them. In the end, the samurai separated themselves from the beggars, creating their order and calling themselves komuso, or “monks of nothingness”.

Read the essay on shakuhachi

TRACKLIST

01 – Waiting for you (5:26)
02 – I see you (6:09)
03 – Roots of my life (6:31)
04 – Cave of the Light (7:11)
05 – Light, touch me (6:52)
06 – Emperor (6:27)
07 – Father, where are you (4:42)
08 – I live (5:06)