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Part of these collections: Flute, Remixed by Four Stones, Space Music. Customers who bought Tilopa also bought: Magnatune Compilation, DJ Cary, Musica Franca, Four Stones, Suzanne Teng, Gonzalo X Ruiz, Fernwood.
"Kyotaku Live" by Tilopa is the 7th best selling Ambient album of all time. "Out of the Blue" by Tilopa is the 9th best selling Ambient album of all time. "Pictures of Silence" by Tilopa is the 8th best selling Ambient album of all time (7th this month). "Turkishauch" by Tilopa is the 9th best selling Ambient album this week.
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 |  | By The Way [play hifi lofi] [license] [buy] |
 | | Kyotaku Live [play hifi lofi] [license] [buy] |
 | | Out of the Blue [play hifi lofi] [license] [buy] |
 | | Pictures of Silence [play hifi lofi] [license] [buy] |
 | | Turkishauch [play hifi lofi] [license] [buy] |
Tilopa, a one time social scientist who did research on Latin America, has
studied quite a wide range of different musical instruments since early
childhood (flute, violin, classical guitar, piano, tampoora, dillruba,
svarmandal, santoor), but found his real love about 20 years ago when he met
Since that time he has studied the traditional 'honkyoku' zen-music with his
master and says that this is a never ending process even though he is playing
the same songs over and over again.
At the same time he has been experimenting with combining the kyotaku with other
western and eastern instruments.
He lives with his wife and a multitude of her paintings in an old farmhouse in
the countryside of Bavaria/Germany where he is working as a kyotaku-teacher and
maker and also as a t'ai chi teacher.
Tilopa is playing the so called kyotaku, also known as Japanese zen-flute or
long shakuhachi. This instrument has a pentatonic tuning and has 5 holes like
the shakuhachi, but has a much deeper and more mellow sound than the shakuhachi.
It used to be played more often in the old days of Japan, but was more and more
replaced by the shakuhachi during the twentieth century.
Tilopa's master, Koku Nishimura, was one of the first to revive the old
tradition of kyotaku.
For a few years now, Tilopa has been giving occasional concerts with Sangeet P.
Sieben. Sieben is a gifted guitarist who started out with jazz and rock music
years ago, picked up other instruments on his musical life journey and now feels
very much at home with ethno-, world- and meditation-music. One of the results
of this extraordinary meeting is the CD 'Pictures of Silence', which is a live
recording of several improvisational sessions at an art exhibition in Cologne/Germany.
with
the kyotaku and his flute-master Koku Nishimura in Kumamoto/Japan.
About the
Japanese zen-flute:
In the same
process it changed from an instrument of meditation that was mainly used by a
certain buddhist sect of wandering monks (komuso), who played traditional
religious pieces (honkyoku) only, to an instrument of more 'worldly' use played
with other instruments and in different kinds of music.
