© 2004 kd/pp  
      Recordings and Audio Samples      
 

 

           
 
   

Below is a list of the recordings I have done.
You can also hear some recordings and Video recordingshere, either solo (honkyoku or new music) or in collaboration with various artists.

Some of the Files have slightly bigger file sizes and will require a few minutes preloading.

     
   

Recordings

I am on the following CDs:

 
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    Myles Boisen & Jon Raskin: Music + One. An Improvisation Compendium.
Rastascan Records. BRD 054
www.rastascan.com
22 musicians in the San Francisco Bay Area were asked to improvise as if they were playing with their own shadow, in order to allow space for others to improvise with the recording. An unusual project!
     
   

Fred Frith: The Happy End Problem.
Music for Dance Vol. 5,
Fred Redords
www.fredfrith.com

Fred Frith writes:
Performed by a stellar cast of musicians and featuring the ethereal electronic manipulations of Patrice Scanlon, this record contains music for two dances created by Amanda Miller for The Pretty Ugly Dance Company, one based on Igor Stravinsky's Firebird Suite, the other a deliberately "Western" look at "Japanese" culture.

 
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    Henry Kaiser: Domo Arigato Derek-Sensei!
Balance Point Acoustics. bpaltd202
www.balancepointacoustics.com
A tribute to the late derek Bailey. Henry Kaiser plays guitar with 14 musicians incl. Bailey.
 
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Kiku Day - Shakuhachi
Henry Kaiser - Guitar

Zen Kaiju
Balance Point Acoustics bpaltd303
www.balancepointacoustics.com
A crazy improv CD with guitar improvisor, Henry Kaiser on different guitars.

 
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    Honkyoku (classical repertoire) - Audio
     
Audio recording of
honkyoku
    Oshusaji (traditional)
quicktime audio, 1.6mb
 
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    Honkyoku (classical repertoire) - Video
     

Video recordings of
honkyoku

   

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Ôshûsaji
played on jinashi 2.4
quicktime movie, 12mb

 
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Our beautiful planet

   
Sokkan

played on jinashi 2.9
quicktime movie, 9mb
     


   

Kyorei played an octave apart by Brian Tairaku Ritchie and Kiku Day
Suginami Aikikai, San Francisco, USA. 14th June 2005

SanFranciscoConcert

 

 
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Videos recordings of
concerts
    Concert Videos
     
   

Honkyoku and Improvisation with the taiko group, Tengu-daiko
Rhododendronpark, Botanika, Bremen, Germany
July 2006

StreamingVideoBremenConcert

 
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Audio recordings of
experimental music and
improvisation
    Experimental/Improvisation
     

Beautiful Northern Light
   
Silk, Bamboo & Catgut I & II

Trio with:
Anne LeBaron - harp
Kanoko Nishi - koto
Kiku Day - shakuhachi

I studied composition with Anne LeBaron, but we were so excited after 'discovering' this trio, that we rather played:
PART I quicktime audio, 1.5 mb
PART II quicktime audio, 0.8mb
 
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    Improvisation at Mills College, Nov 2004
Theresa Wong - cello
Kiku Day - ji-nashi shakuhachi
quicktime audio, 1.7mb
     

Our beautiful planet

    l Vytautas Gesmanavicius: Tsuru no Mai
Vytas wrote this wonderful piece for me in 2004 while we were both studying in California. I played it at the Is Arti Contemporary Music festival in Kaunas, Lithuania:
quicktime audio, 3.2mb
 
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    Hvor mange bambus er der? (K. Day)
Using the same technique as above with stereo-mic:
quicktime audio, 1mb
     


   

Kuruidake (K. Day)
An improvisation on a technique I found on the shakuhachi:
quicktime audio, 1.3mb

 

 
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    Shakuhachi Pair: Improvisation, 2002
Clive Bell and Kiku Day (2 x Shakuhachi)
quicktime audio, 0.8mb
     

At the Stone, New York
   

At 'Marchand de Sable' in Paris, 2003 with:
Andras Vigh - hurdy gurdy
Pascal Marzan - guitar
Kiku Day - ji-nashi shakuhachi
quicktime audio

 
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    Miscellaneous
     
Video recording with
Henry Kaiser
   

Gourmet Guitars makes DVDs of crazy guitar collectors. Here are 2 clips from that DVD with Henry Kaiser on guitar and myself on ji-nashi shakuhachi:

clip 01
clip 02

 
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Audio Sample Night Flying Winter Cranes for jinashi shakuhachi and electronics by Mogens Christensen played by Kiku Day.

 
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