Brian Tairaku Ritchie:Shakuhachi and Iwabue--------Shakuhachi Club Milwaukee: John Sparrow- Percussion. Dave Gelting-Upright Bass-----------Shakuhachi Club NYC: Billy Ficca-Percussion, Dan Nosheny-Tuba, John Kruth-Mandolin, Tony Trischka-Banjo-------------Shakuhachi Club Reykjavik: Matthias M.D. Hemstock-Percussion, Oskar Godjonnson-Straight Tenor sax, Skuli Sverisson-Acoustic Bass Guitar--------------Shakuhachi Club San Francisco: Shig 33-Percussion, Roger Rocha-Bass, Yoon Ki Chai-Violin--------Shakuhachi Club Tasmania: Don Bate-Trombone, Tim Jones-Tuba, Konrad Park-Percussion---------Shakuhachi Club Pisa: QQRU-drums, Tomasso Novi-keyboards.
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Influences
Steve Lacy, Watazumi, Victor Brauner, John Coltrane, Sun Ra, Marcel Duchamp, Blind Willie Johnson, Wassily Kandinski, Son House, Television, Don Cherry, The Kinks, Albert Ayler, Velvet Underground, Han Bennink, Derek Bailey, Ornette Coleman, Syd Barrett, Cecil Taylor, John Entwistle, Jin Nyodo,Fernando Pessoa, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Samuel Beckett, Dennis Charles, Charles Baudelaire, Yayoi Kusama, Mitsuhashi Kifu, Ronnie Boykins, Hamid Drake, Irshad Khan, Jimmy Giuffre, Pierre Henry, Phil Ochs, Cesar Franck, Charlie Mingus, Johnny Dodds, Brian Jones, Rashid Ali, Don Ayler, Louise Bourgeois, Hou Chun Ming, Pierre Schaeffer,Henri Michaux, Paul Klee, Josef Beuys, Nick Drake, Joaquim Rodrigo, Sidney Bechet
Sounds Like
Steve Lacy, Jin Nyodo, Watazumi, John Coltrane, Jimmy Giuffre,Violent Femmes
Founder of Violent Femmes Rock Band, 25 years on the road and in the studio all over the world. Concerts in over 35 different countries. 10 studio albums and numerous live and greatest hits packages. 7 years of studying shakuhachi (Japanese Bamboo Flute) in NYC with James Nyoraku Schlefer, culminating in a Jun Shihan teaching license and the professional name "Tairaku". Has recorded 3 CD's of traditional and modern music for the shakuhachi. Leader of the "Shakuhachi Club" band with branches in NYC, Milwaukee, San Francisco, Tasmania and Reykjavik. Other interests include producing other musicians, playing as sideman or arranger on recordings and touring with various ad hoc groups. Besides Violent Femmes, sometimes member of Zen Circus, Green Mist, G.O.I.N.,Paddy on the Railway.
Fans of Tairaku can find more wonderful shakuhachi, on the Ozones page! Featured on the track 'Unwritten Chapter' is Brian and Yyan Ng on the Taiko drums = meaning of rok!
Hello hello down there..how’s the winter going?? Hot tea and Shakuhachi?? I’d like to have some news from you but our “online-working-hours” often don’t match .. A few days ago I took part to some kind of “hooligan” backing vocals for the ragazzi.. fun!! Uuhhh! Baci baci
Hello my friend. I would like to invite you to check out my new poem called "I Am a Storm". Just click the picture below and the storm will take you to my blog. Thank you, -byron
For all the well wishers, that is NOT my baby. My baby is 24 years old, named Silas and you can find him in my top friends. This baby in the pic is my little nephew. He is delightful. If I have any more kids of my own, I'll let you know!
Hi Brian, and the bub is? See you back in Hobart soon..start the commute again..how are you? Caught some jazz in the Melb INT jazz festival, Charlie Haden was great, now it's the Melb Fringe Jazz Festival. Launched my new band last week with Konrad and cracking young bass player Zoe Frater. Looking forward to the mona foma vibe! hope all is well x TB
hearing you play flute on Diamonds reminds me of ceremony, thanks for being there with me, hope your festival went as you had envisioned!!! one tribe, llysa
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