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Praise the Beauty

from Curt and Bruce: Orcas Takes by Curt and Bruce

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Traditional music in Japan is very deep and very narrow. Once you choose a particular teacher or school that’s it for life. Dabbling in other styles or genre is forbidden under threat of excommunication. On the upside there is an audience for you among the acolytes who truly understand and appreciate the style. They know the difference and you have to respect that. The downside is that audiences are dwindling rapidly.
We are in a different business than the folks that study and patronize traditional music. Our target audience is the educated, music loving general public. So we aspire to replace “narrow and deep” with “wide and deep.” This policy is born of a necessity to communicate to an audience that is not concerned with the idiosyncrasies of the traditional schools.
We have been blessed with the best teachers in Japan, lived, traveled and been inspired by Japan’s natural beauty. We are free to compose and improvise, reinterpret the classics and modern works and take risks that are often unacceptable politically and musically for many of our Japanese friends. We have great opportunities to play for receptive, almost hungry, audiences.

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from Curt and Bruce: Orcas Takes, released April 15, 2020
Curtis Patterson koto
Bruce Huebner shakuhachi
Composed by 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

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