Wind in the Branches, by Adrian Freedman and Tobias Kaye

Wind in the Branches

by Adrian Freedman and Tobias Kaye

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1.	Icicles 09:24	info	buy track
2.	Wings in Flight 07:34	info	buy track
3.	Tree at Falls Pool 06:28		buy track
4.	Strato Nimbus 04:00		buy track
5.	Life in a Rock Pool 09:53		buy track
6.	Windbeaten Rushes 05:04		buy track
7.	Murmuration at Sunset 17:15		buy track

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Sounding Bowls are a new instrument developed by Tobias Kaye in Devon, UK. They have metal strings set inside a circular wooden bowl, made from beautifully grained timber from British trees such as Cherry, Ash, Sycamore, Walnut and Holly. They have a lustrous tone, combining the best of many other stringed instruments in a surprisingly small size.

The sound of the Japanese shakuhachi flute is particularly well-matched to the sounding bowls. Both instruments are warm and rich in overtones. And just as the sounding bowls come in different sizes and woods, each one having its own sound properties, so too the shakuhachi is made in different lengths from uniquely patterned pieces of bamboo, each flute having its own individual timbre and sonority.

The recording of this album took place over a period of two years. The result is an album of shimmering string textures and soaring shakuhachi melodies that resonate with a crystalline purity. The music evokes aspects of the natural landscape such as rock pools, clouds, windbeaten rushes, icicles, sunsets and flocks of starlings, but it also has a surprisingly rich emotional warmth and depth.

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released January 5, 2015

All tracks composed and performed by Adrian Freedman and Tobias Kaye

Adrian Freedman – shakuhachi

Tobias Kaye – sounding bowls

Recorded, mixed and produced by Adrian Freedman, Dartington 2016

Mastered by Sam Welbourne, Glastonbury

Produced by Adrian Freedman

Design and layout: Tobias Kaye

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Adrian Freedman Devon, UK

Adrian Freedman is a master of the shakuhachi, bamboo Zen flute of Japan. His music is heartfelt and full of subtle dynamics which conjure an atmosphere of rarefied peace, with a deeply healing sense of spaciousness, pristine clarity and delicate beauty. The scope of his music is diverse, including songs was well as instrumental music, but an ineffable sense of the sacred is retained throughout. ... more