Lamb of God - Rock Shakuhachi Flute 尺八 Cornelius Boots "Blacken the Cursed Sun" Walden Peak Farm,TN

Featured on the album Holy Flute: Shakuhachi Unleashed Vol. I
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June 1, 2024 in Chattanooga, Tennessee at Walden Peak Farm
Concert curated by Michael McCamish and hosted by Andrea "Ms. Ladybug" Zappo and C. Ryan Welch.
Arranged and performed by Cornelius Boots on the 1.8 jinashi shakuhachi, a root-end bamboo Zen flute made by Jon Kypros in 2008.
This rock shakuhachi arrangement features a couple of "expanded techniques" on the shakuhachi: circular breathing, circular pulsing and persistent "doodle" triple-tonguing.
Seeing as the shakuhachi has such a history creating and performing "nature music" this title fits into this broader category that includes many original compositions and arrangements I have been creating since 2007. This song is the most "extreme" metal that I have attempted to translate into a solo shakuhachi arrangement, and it is a testament to the great riffage and compositional chops of the boys in Lamb of God that a viable version of this was even possible.
This is also another chance to include the audience in the arrangement.
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Avant-garde Nature Music & Woodwind Animism. Everything here is 100% breath-powered and 100% plant-based.
Cornelius Boots is a certified grandmaster of Zen shakuhachi, a renegade classical composer and lifelong woodwind performance visionary-pioneer. Long bio below.
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Founder/composer of Black Earth Shakuhachi School, Cornelius Boots has forged his own eclectic style as a professional woodwind performer since 1989. A licensed shakuhachi grandmaster (dai shihan), prize-winning composer and former bass clarinet performance innovator, he is actively merging the threads of Watazumido, Eric Dolphy and Son House on jinashi (all-natural) and Taimu (bass) shakuhachi.
Boots has generated and released an entire body of new songs and compositions for these large, raw and rare bamboo flutes of Japanese Zen Buddhist origin: mukyoku (27 pieces for Taimu) and Shakuhachi Unleashed (48 virtuosic songs of rock, Zen, blues, metal and more). In 2018, he was a finalist in the World Shakuhachi Competition, a featured performer for Sony PlayStation’s E3 press conference (LA) and a featured performer/lecturer at both the World Bamboo Congress (Xalapa, Mexico) and the World Shakuhachi Festival (London).
A three-time graduate of the renowned Jacobs School of Music (BM Classical Clarinet ’97, BS Audio Recording ’97, MM Jazz Studies ’99), Boots’ training and work experience is deep and diverse: jazz saxophonist, swing clarinetist, symphony bass clarinetist, funk and progressive rock bandleader and founder/composer of the world’s only composing bass clarinet quartet, Edmund Welles. With his latest three albums, the Shakuhachi Unleashed series-Holy Flute (2017), Bamboo Rising (2018), and Sacred Root (2019)-Cornelius continues to develop “bamboo gospel,” a robust, cross-cultural solo style utilizing rare breath-defying techniques and maximum polystylistic prowess.
A Performer’s Certificate Awardee from David N. Baker’s seminal Jazz Studies program at Indiana University, Cornelius is the first student of Grandmaster Michael Chikuzen Gould to have earned a Shihan (master teaching license) in 2013 and was given the shakuhachi name 深禅 "Shinzen" (depth Zen or deep Zen). In 2022, he was awarded a Dai Shihan (grandmaster) certificate in recognition of his dedication and contribution to the art and practice of shakuhachi. In addition to teaching, Cornelius has recorded and written, in shakuhachi calligraphic notation, a series of 27 etudes (mukyoku) for Taimu shakuhachi. First-prize winner of the 2013 International Clarinet Composition Competition, Boots has also received commissions and awards from Chamber Music America, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Areon Flutes, International Songwriting Competition and Meet the Composer.
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[@Diehydro]

👏👏👏 Always enjoy this !

[@feliciachavez]

Nice setting! Great audience participation. 😁

[@elizabethstardylanmoran8691]

We need to get you clogging, Cornelius, like the French Canadian Fiddlers. Brilliant stuff, here!

[@CorneliusBoots]

thanks Liz, glad you enjoy it ! but: no, there shall be no clogging.