CREDITS

Shakuhachi: Yôichi Okada

Keyboards: Francisco Casaverde

Recording: Francisco Casaverde and Yôichi Okada

Mixing: Francisco Casaverde

Masterization: Rodrigo Camargos (Estúdio Manhattan)

Cover: Veruscka Gírio

Final cover artwork: Andréa Prenholatto Pereira

Drawings (sumi-e): Rita Bohm

Photo of Yôichi Okada: Napoleão Xavier

Photo of Francisco Casaverde: Veruscka Gírio

Produced by Ryotan Tokuda and Francisco Casaverde

All the pieces of music are in the public domain

The authentic pieces of Zen music began to be composed and transmitted by Japanese Zen monks in various Buddhist temples and monasteries in the XII century, and they were used for a practice of meditation called 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”.

In this CD, these pieces were kept in their original form, rendered on the shakuhachi (a bamboo flute of Chinese origin) by the Japanese musician Yôichi Okada and harmonized and arranged by keyboardist Francisco Casaverde, who added keyboards and percussion to the shakuhachi.