Japan Sound Portrait

Japan Sound Portrait 4


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featuring:

Forest Whitaker reciting a quote from the Hagakure in Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai, discussing the central tenet of the Hannya Shingyo / Heart Sutra that form is emptiness and emptiness is form.

Field recordings from walking the 88 Temple Shikoku pilgrimage

One of my favourite tracks that I ever made with my friend Koichi Yuasa, a tea farmer, as shinekosei

Field recordings from Tom Swindell and Akinobu Tatsumi from the film they are
currently shooting about the aftermath of the earthquake in the Kumamoto region

A new track from TA2MI| Akinobu Tatsumi

A recording of the Buddhist Nenbutsu chant at Tatsumi's temple Shosanji, as appears in the film KanZeOn.

Part of the soundtrack for KanZeOn created out of field recordings by ManOne

A rapped hagiography of the 8th century Esoteric Buddhist polymath Kukai, by GMC, over a remix of the KanZeOn soundtrack by shinekosei, featuring Eri Fujii.

Finishing with a recording of shomyo chanting at Kongobuji temple on Mount Koya. Thanks to Elizabeth Tinsley on these last two tracks.

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Japan Sound PortraitBy Neil Cantwell | Nick Luscombe