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One shakuhachi player said, “You draw from so many sources, the concert was really interesting. We Japanese can’t do this.” A local concert producer said, “I put on many koto, shakuhachi concerts and I like them, but you guys are different. You are doing this as music, they are doing something different.” Another listener said after the concert, “I've been to other concerts where I got sleepy. Yours was enjoyable all through and your banter between songs is really good, almost like manzai (comic dialogue.”)

Paraphrasing Donald Richie, the foreigner in Japan can sit on a ridge and look down into two valleys. He can travel down into and enjoy the fruits of either one. As foreign musicians in Japan we have a perch from which we can venture down into one valley filled with the traditions that we continue to respect and study, or the other valley of our homeland, drawing on jazz or classical music, for example. I think most musicians around the world share this desire for freedom.
I might add because of the difficulty of the instruments and social, linguistic and political barriers, it is a long trip to bear fruit here in Japan. Anyway, we have committed 20 years plus now and we must utilize this unique situation.

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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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