Yungflutes

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Member Since: 11/27/2007
Band Website: yungflutes.com
Band Members: BFA in Painting and Printmaking from San Francisco State University, guitarist for Alt Rock band Fibulator, apprenticed shakuhachi making under Kinya Sogawa in Saitama Japan. (Kinya sensei was an uchi deshi, live-in apprentice with Chikusen Tamai, who also apprenticed Tom Deaver, Yamaguchi Shugetsu and Hoshi Bonchiku among others). These days, I enjoy making all styles of shakuhachi, from all natural nobekan Hocchiku bamboo flutes for zen or meditative playing to the two-piece Jiari modern instrument for professional musicians, shakuhachi teacher's and their students. I studied both shakuhachi making and the Dokyoku style of zen Honkyou music under Kinya (through Katsuya Yokoyama, Watazumi). Other music styles and teachers include Keisuki Zenyogi (Miean, Honkyoku), Brian Tairaku Rithchie (Jin Nyodo kinko, Jim schlefer, Ronnie Seldin), contemporary techniques from Akikazu Nakmura (Berkeley, Katsuya Yokoyama), Christopher Yohmei Blasdel (Kinko, Goro Yamaguchi) and mostly with Ralph Samuelson (Kinko, Yamato Shudo). Yukio Tsuji and Genjio ito have been enormously influential as new music composers who use the shakuhachi in their work on stage and film.
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Influences: My family, Jimi Hendrix, Ellen Stewart, the Great Jones Repertory Group, Bruce Lee, Kinya Sogawa, Yukio tsuji, Genji Ito, Andre Serban, Elizabeth Strados, Fred Ho, Kazuo and Yoshito Ohno, the international shakuhachi community, African American culture, Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso, Ping Chong, Pan Asian Rep, Fred Korematsu, Brian Taiku Ritchie, Paulo Coelho Al Gore and everyone who acts upon making the world a better place.
Sounds Like: Kenny G tea party with Watazumi and Jimi Hendrix
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None