Music for Zen Meditation and Other Joys

by Tony Scott

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Clarinetist Tony Scott recorded these entirely improvised duets in Japan with traditional koto and shakuhachi players. The sparse, ambient recordings abandon Western jazz structures in favor of slow, meditative tonal exploration, predating the commercial rise of New Age music.

Genres

  • New Age

Tracklist

  1. Is Not All One
  2. The Murmuring Sound Of The Mountain Stream
  3. A Quivering Leaf Ask The Winds
  4. After The Snow The Fragrance
  5. To Drift Like Clouds
  6. Za Zen (Meditation)
  7. Prajna-Paramita-Hridaya Sutra (Sutra Chant)
  8. Sanzen (Moment Of Truth)
  9. Satori (Enlightenment)