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The Land of Nod

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TJ's Lulluby 02:58
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Lulluby 04:19
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Buna no Ha 03:46
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Smile 03:03
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Reverie 05:06
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Shakuhachi player Bruce Huebner and harpist Kaoru Arai-Colucci are “The Land of Nod”, a new duo inspired by a poem of the same title by Robert Louis Stevenson from his book “A Child’s Garden of Verses.” For their debut album Huebner and Arai-Colucci choose lullaby and lullaby-like songs to invite us on a trip to a musical Land of Nod where we can enjoy a reverie of nostalgia for childhood fantasies, the pleasures of deep sleep, sweet dreams, and scenes from a garden of musical poems like that evoked by Stevenson’s collection. While the Japanese shakuhachi and the Western grand harp may seem to be an unlikely match, Huebner’s love of the expressivity of breath through the bamboo flute, and Arai-Colucci’s love of transparent harmonies enunciated by her fingers on open strings of the harp help us understand what brought the two musicians to explore the possibilities of this unique instrumentation.
Many songs on the album were also inspired by the nature and landscape of the Tohoku region in Japan. Bruce has spent decades in Tohoku, living and touring extensively in Fukushima, Yamagata, Akita and Iwate. After 3.11, Bruce played over 80 concerts to help with the rebuilding of the areas affected by the great tsunami and earthquake.
THE LAND OF NOD

From breakfast on through all the day
At home among my friends I stay,
But every night I go abroad
Afar into the Land of Nod.

All by myself I have to go,
With none to tell me what to do
All alone beside the streams
And up the mountain-sides of dreams.

The strangest things are there for me,
Both things to eat and things to see,
And many frightening sights abroad
Till morning in the Land of Nod.

Try as I like to find the way,
I never can get back by day,
Nor can remember plain and clear
The curious music that I hear.

From “A Child’s Garden of Verses” (1885) by Robert Louis Stevenson

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released May 1, 2021

Performed by The Land of Nod (ノドの地)
www.nodonochi.com
Bruce Huebner (Shakuhachi) Kaoru Arai-Colucci (Grand Harp)
Recorded by Bruce Huebner
Mixing/Mastering by Bob Ward
Artist Photo by Aki Tanaka
Cover Design by Kaoru Arai-Colucci / Dave Gutteridge
INM-0001
℗ & © 2021 INNUENDO MUSIC Made in Japan STEREO


WALKING IN THE AIR
Howard David Blake
© HIGHBRIDGE MUSIC

SMILE
Music by Charles Chaplin
(c) 1954 by BOURNE CO.
All rights reserved. Used by permission.

SCARBOROUGH FAIR
(Written by Paul Simon / Arthur Garfunkel)
©1966 by Paul Simon Music

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Bruce Huebner Yokohama, Japan

Shakuhachi performer Bruce Huebner has 40 years of study, performance, composition and music production experience in Japan.

His music is a unique blend of traditional and modern, Western and Japanese, that is the product of his life between California and Japan.
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