Heavy Root Speaks -Bedrule Kirk -Wood Prophets bass shakuhachi/Black Earth Shakuhachi School - 地無し尺八

August 11, 2024 at Bedrule Kirk in Bedrule, Scotland
https://www.bedrule.com/
A group recital at the conclusion of our Black Earth Shakuhachi School Retreat on a sheep farm in the hinterlands of Scottish Borders. Thanks to our wonderful hosts in the village of Bedrule and their exquisite church in the Turnbull lineage.

Featured on the 2022 release Wood Prophecy
https://corneliusboots.bandcamp.com/album/wood-prophecy
A rare appearance by he world's only bass shakuhachi ensemble.
A composition by Cornelius Boots "The Heavy Root Speaks," movement one of five of Wood Prophecy, a woodwind animism saga. This is an adapted excerpt of the longer movement, arranged specifically for the conclusion of this recital.

Featuring members of The Black Earth Shakuhachi School, playing Taimu shakuhachi and/or jinashi flutes, from L to R:
Christian "Bainn" Briggs: 2.4 jinashi
John Garner: 2.67 jinashi
Alex Merck: 2.65 Taimu
Kevin Chen: 2.69 Taimu
Mavrick Miller: 2.66 Omu
Cornelius Boots: 2.74 Taimu

A small band of reverent renegades, The Wood Prophets create sounds unknown to modern society. Founded by woodwind specialist, shakuhachi grandmaster and award-winning composer Cornelius Boots, they celebrate the low tones of the raw, earthy vertical bamboo flute of Japanese Zen Buddhism. All original music. Underground Nature Music, a living art.

Woodwind Nature -- Elemental Musicianship
https://corneliusboots.com/

Black Earth Shakuhachi School
Traditional Zen Shakuhachi Flute Practice and nature meditation merges with deeper musicianship.
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LONG BIO:
Founder/composer of Black Earth Shakuhachi School, Cornelius Boots has forged his own eclectic style as a professional woodwind performer since 1989. A licensed shakuhachi grandmaster (dai shihan), prize-winning composer and former bass clarinet performance innovator, he is actively merging the threads of Watazumido, Eric Dolphy and Son House on jinashi (all-natural) and Taimu (bass) shakuhachi.

Boots has generated and released an entire body of new songs and compositions for these large, raw and rare bamboo flutes of Japanese Zen Buddhist origin: mukyoku (27 pieces for Taimu) and Shakuhachi Unleashed (48 virtuosic songs of rock, Zen, blues, metal and more). In 2018, he was a finalist in the World Shakuhachi Competition, a featured performer for Sony PlayStation’s E3 press conference (LA) and a featured performer/lecturer at both the World Bamboo Congress (Xalapa, Mexico) and the World Shakuhachi Festival (London).

A three-time graduate of the renowned Jacobs School of Music (BM Classical Clarinet ’97, BS Audio Recording ’97, MM Jazz Studies ’99), Boots’ training and work experience is deep and diverse: jazz saxophonist, swing clarinetist, symphony bass clarinetist, funk and progressive rock bandleader and founder/composer of the world’s only composing bass clarinet quartet, Edmund Welles. With his latest three albums, the Shakuhachi Unleashed series—Holy Flute (2017), Bamboo Rising (2018), and Sacred Root (2019)—Cornelius continues to develop “bamboo gospel,” a robust, cross-cultural solo style utilizing rare breath-defying techniques and maximum polystylistic prowess.

A Performer’s Certificate Awardee from David N. Baker’s seminal Jazz Studies program at Indiana University, Cornelius is the first student of Grandmaster Michael Chikuzen Gould to have earned a Shihan (master teaching license) in 2013 and was given the shakuhachi name 深禅 "Shinzen" (depth Zen or deep Zen). In 2022, he was awarded a Dai Shihan (grandmaster) certificate in recognition of his dedication and contribution to the art and practice of shakuhachi. In addition to teaching, Cornelius has recorded and written, in shakuhachi calligraphic notation, a series of 27 etudes (mukyoku) for Taimu shakuhachi. First-prize winner of the 2013 International Clarinet Composition Competition, Boots has also received commissions and awards from Chamber Music America, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Areon Flutes, International Songwriting Competition and Meet the Composer.
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Woodwind Nature Music Video:
https://youtu.be/gXROBTZz-vo
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深禅 (Shinzen)