CREDITS

Shakuhachi: Yôichi Okada

Recording: Francisco Casaverde and Yôichi Okada

Mixing: Francisco Casaverde

Masterization: Rodrigo Camargos (Estúdio Manhattan)

Cover: Ivo Ricardo and Francisco Casaverde

Produced by: Ryotan Tokuda and Francisco Casaverde

All the pieces of music are in the public domain

This is the first CD in the Zen Flute series and it contains authentic pieces of Zen music, composed and transmitted by Japanese Zen monks in various Buddhist temples and monasteries. The practice of meditation by playing and listening to the shakuhachi, a bamboo flute of Chinese origin, began around the XII century and was known as Sui Zen, the Zen of blowing. Its objective was to reach the experience of enlightenment through the flute or “to become Buddha in a sound”. The pieces of music on this CD were recorded by the Japanese musician Yôichi Okada at the request of Zen monk Ryotan Tokuda.