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''Music for Zen Meditation'' is a 1964
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Tony Scott Anthony David Leighton Scott (21 June 1944 – 19 August 2012) was an English film director and producer. He was known for directing highly successful action and thriller films such as ''Top Gun'' (1986), ''Beverly Hills Cop II'' (1987), ''Day ...
. The album is considered to be the first
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record. ''Music for Zen Meditation'' is mostly
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by Scott, Shinichi Yuize (
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Hōzan Yamamoto Hōzan Yamamoto (山本 邦山, ''Yamamoto Hōzan''; October 6, 1937 - February 10, 2014 in Ōtsu, Shiga prefecture) was a Japanese shakuhachi player, composer and lecturer. Yamamoto started playing the Japanese bamboo flute shakuhachi at the ag ...
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Sampling

The fourth track entitled "After the Snow, the Fragrance" has been sampled by electronic artist
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for his track entitled "Parks", which appeared on his 2001 release, '' Pause''.


Track listing

# "Is All Not One?" (
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Hōzan Yamamoto Hōzan Yamamoto (山本 邦山, ''Yamamoto Hōzan''; October 6, 1937 - February 10, 2014 in Ōtsu, Shiga prefecture) was a Japanese shakuhachi player, composer and lecturer. Yamamoto started playing the Japanese bamboo flute shakuhachi at the ag ...
, Shinichi Yuize) – 3:15 # "The Murmuring Sound of the Mountain Stream" (Scott, Yuize) – 8:05 # "A Quivering Leaf, Ask the Winds" (Yamamoto)– 2:30 # "After the Snow, the Fragrance" (Scott, Yuize) – 7:00 # "To Drift Like Clouds" (Yamamoto, Yuize) – 1:38 # "Za-Zen (Meditation)" (Scott, Yamamoto) – 2:05 # "Prajna-Paramita-Hridaya Sutra (Sutra Chant)" (Scott, Yuize) – 7:10 # "Sanzen (Moment of Truth)" (Scott, Yuize) – 6:45 # "Satori (Enlightenment)" (Scott, Yuize) – 5:25 Amazon.com
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Performance

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Tony Scott Anthony David Leighton Scott (21 June 1944 – 19 August 2012) was an English film director and producer. He was known for directing highly successful action and thriller films such as ''Top Gun'' (1986), ''Beverly Hills Cop II'' (1987), ''Day ...
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clarinet The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The instrument has a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell, and uses a single reed to produce sound. Clarinets comprise a family of instruments of differing sizes and pitches ...
* Shinichi Yuize -
koto Koto may refer to: * Koto (band), an Italian synth pop group * Koto (instrument), a Japanese musical instrument * Koto (kana), a ligature of two Japanese katakana * Koto (traditional clothing), a traditional dress made by Afro-Surinamese women * K ...
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Hōzan Yamamoto Hōzan Yamamoto (山本 邦山, ''Yamamoto Hōzan''; October 6, 1937 - February 10, 2014 in Ōtsu, Shiga prefecture) was a Japanese shakuhachi player, composer and lecturer. Yamamoto started playing the Japanese bamboo flute shakuhachi at the ag ...
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shakuhachi A is a Japanese and ancient Chinese longitudinal, end-blown flute that is made of bamboo. The bamboo end-blown flute now known as the was developed in Japan in the 16th century and is called the .


See also

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Meditation music Meditation music is music performed to aid in the practice of meditation. It can have a specific religious content, but also more recently has been associated with modern composers who use meditation techniques in their process of composition, or w ...
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1964 in music This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1964. Specific locations * 1964 in British music * 1964 in Norwegian music Specific genres *1964 in country music * 1964 in jazz Events *January 1 – ''Top of the Pops'' ...
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Instrumental music An instrumental is a recording normally without any vocals, although it might include some inarticulate vocals, such as shouted backup vocals in a big band setting. Through semantic widening, a broader sense of the word song may refer to instru ...


References


External links


Official playlist on Tony Scott's YouTube channel
{{DEFAULTSORT:Music For Zen Meditation 1964 debut albums Tony Scott (musician) albums Verve Records albums New-age albums Instrumental albums