Orcas

from Curt and Bruce: Orcas Takes by Curt and Bruce

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The synergy between location, community and music is contagious. The overwhelmingly positive reaction to these homegrown concerts shows that we aren’t the only ones looking for something “new” in an “old” place. Concern about the environment, crisis in education, and a general malaise here in Japan has sent many people searching as we did. After over twenty years as American musicians doing this great traditional music in Japan in relative obscurity we are at last finding our role.
Ironically a coming trend in Japan will be the slow realization that there is this dormant heritage close at hand. Japan has been so enamored with the West for so long. A concert at a proud 400 year-old samurai residence, or at a grand, high ceiling wood shrine in the shadow of a sacred mountain is an intense musical experience for both listener and performer. It musters local pride. “This place was perfect with the instruments.” “I never knew shakuhachi and koto could sound so beautiful - the setting was perfect.” “I new this place was here, but never had been inside.” “With all the warmth - the wood and music I felt relaxed and I met people that I would not have otherwise.” But that beautiful house is moldering as we speak, the effect of neglect is creeping up at all sides, there is a cultural crisis here.
Facing an aging population, general decline and apathy toward the “old,” local leaders realize that these gatherings serve as a chance for people to rediscover a place and then a community. It is enormously gratifying as musicians to be part of this fledgling movement.

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from Curt and Bruce: Orcas Takes, released April 15, 2020
Curtis Patterson koto
Bruce Huebner shakuhachi
Susan Osborn vocal
Composed by Susan Osborn, Curtis Patterson and Bruce Huebner (all rights reserved)

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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. ... more