Mujitsu and Tairaku's Shakuhachi BBQ

There are piano arrangements of all the Fukuda Rando stuff, they are not particularly good but they exist. You can get that at Mejiro.

hi Phil,
Keiko has cool stuff, she also arranges on request. (if you have a certain piece & you want to add piano to it).

Another of my favorites are from Haruno Kira (niece of Takemisu). I got some stuff from her album "Breath"

http://www.geocities.jp/breathnotes/english_0.html

I did lots of piano & shakuhachi duets that I arranged...but I just have melody & chords only (simple that way ;-).

Are you gong to work with clasical piano player or jazz piano player?

cheers
Geni

Thanks for asking about this Phil. I've been on the hunt for easy shakuhachi and intermediate piano music/duets that my piano playing friend and I might try to work on together so the leads in this thread a going to be at least a starting point for me.  Oh yeah, one other slight obstacle for me has been that I don't read western music and my musical friend does not read shakuhachi notation (I guess we could always trade seats and try to learn each other's music, eh?  but it comes down to available time to learn all the cool stuff there is to learn!)

Last edited by airin (2010-03-25 11:46:26)

Tairaku wrote:

Hi Glenn, I meant the piano arrangements are a bit florid and weird. They are not good transcriptions of the koto parts, which would be nicer. The Rando compositions themselves are pretty nice.

yes, florid is a good word. i like florid and weird(i still listen to 80's gothic music for that matter).
but were they originally koto, transcribed to piano, or vice-versa? people (lfor example yokoyama) play them with koto, but all the old fukuda rando recordings (on THAT website, anyway) are with piano, and i read here and there how fukuda shocked people by mixing western and trad japan instruments.... i don't know, but kinda thought tsukikusa, gekkou roteki and the rest were originally intended for piano/shakuhachi...? if you or anyone reading knows for sure, i'd love to know which the originals were.

Glenn Swann wrote:

Tairaku wrote:

Hi Glenn, I meant the piano arrangements are a bit florid and weird. They are not good transcriptions of the koto parts, which would be nicer. The Rando compositions themselves are pretty nice.

yes, florid is a good word. i like florid and weird(i still listen to 80's gothic music for that matter).
but were they originally koto, transcribed to piano, or vice-versa? people (lfor example yokoyama) play them with koto, but all the old fukuda rando recordings (on THAT website, anyway) are with piano, and i read here and there how fukuda shocked people by mixing western and trad japan instruments.... i don't know, but kinda thought tsukikusa, gekkou roteki and the rest were originally intended for piano/shakuhachi...? if you or anyone reading knows for sure, i'd love to know which the originals were.

Don't really know......I assumed the koto parts Yokoyama used were the originals because they sound so much better. But if Rando recorded with piano perhaps that's the original. Maybe he wrote the piano parts himself. I assumed they were later arrangements. Could be totally wrong though.

Many thanks for the replies. We may do improvisation or pieces. Thanks for reminding me of Keiko Ueda and Haruno Kira. I must also look through all my flute music. Will keep you updated.