Bamboo

Independent shop in BallardDirections

Available from Light in the Attic Records when we last checked, in the last two days. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

Once again, Japanese crossover/fusion is heating up. As a development or spin-off from the global reappraisal boom of city pop, Japanese fusion has rapidly risen back into the spotlight since around last year. This is an early representative work by shakuhachi player John Kaizan Neptune, an American musician who studied traditional Japanese music and continues to be active in Japan. He holds the professional shakuhachi title “Kaizan” in the Tozan school. While firmly rooted in traditional Japane