Zen Reveries by Christopher Yohmei Blasdel & Kazuo Uehara

The shakuhachi and the synthesizer—two disparate and distinctive instruments—create a new kind of listening reality in a reverie of balance between East and West, melody and harmony, and the ancient and the contemporary.

Christopher Yohmei Blasdel, a shakuhachi master, writer and ethnomusicologist, lived in Japan over 4 decades, studying under Living National Treasure Goro Yamaguchi. His musical world balances traditional shakuhachi music, modern compositions, improvisation and cross-genre work with musicians, dancers, poets and visual artists. He performs and teaches around the world.