Music for Zen Meditation is a 1964 album

Album

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 by jazz

Jazz

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 clarinet

Clarinet

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ist Tony Scott

Tony Scott (musician)

Tony Scott was a jazz clarinetist known for an interest in folk music around the world...

 

The album is considered to be the first New Age

New Age music

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 record. Music for Zen Meditation is mostly improvised

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 by Scott, Shinichi Yuize (koto

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) and Hōzan Yamamoto

Hozan Yamamoto

Hōzan Yamamoto is a Japanese shakuhachi player, composer and lecturer....

 (shakuhachi

Shakuhachi

The is a Japanese end-blown flute. It is traditionally made of bamboo, but versions now exist in ABS and hardwoods. It was used by the monks of the Fuke school of Zen Buddhism in the practice of...

).

The fourth track entitled "After the Snow, the Fragrance" has been sampled by electronic artist Four Tet

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. The track containing the sample is entitled "Parks" and appears on Four Tet

Four Tet

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's 2001 release, Pause (album)

Pause (album)

-External links:* from the Domino Records website...

Track listing

1. "Is All Not One?" (Tony Scott
   Tony Scott (musician)
   Tony Scott was a jazz clarinetist known for an interest in folk music around the world...
   
   , Hōzan Yamamoto
   Hozan Yamamoto
   Hōzan Yamamoto is a Japanese shakuhachi player, composer and lecturer....
   
   , Shinichi Yuize) – 3:50
2. "The Murmuring Sound of the Mountain Stream" (Scott, Yuize) – 8:05
3. "A Quivering Leaf, Ask the Winds" (Yamamoto)– 2:30
4. "After the Snow, the Fragrance" (Scott, Yuize) – 7:00
5. "To Drift Like Clouds" (Yamamoto, Yuize) – 1:38
6. "Za-Zen (Meditation)" (Scott, Yamamoto) – 2:05
7. "Prajna-Paramita-Hridaya Sutra (Sutra Chant)" (Scott, Yuize) – 7:10
8. "Sanzen (Moment of Truth)" (Scott, Yuize) – 6:45
9. "Satori (Enlightenment)" (Scott, Yuize) – 5:25

Performance

• Tony Scott
  Tony Scott (musician)
  Tony Scott was a jazz clarinetist known for an interest in folk music around the world...
  
   - clarinet
  Clarinet
  The clarinet is a musical instrument of woodwind type. The name derives from adding the suffix -et to the Italian word clarino , as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed...
  
  
• Shinichi Yuize - koto
  Koto (musical instrument)
  The koto is a traditional Japanese stringed musical instrument, similar to the Chinese guzheng, the Mongolian yatga, the Korean gayageum and the Vietnamese đàn tranh. The koto is the national instrument of Japan. Koto are about length, and made from kiri wood...
  
  
• Hōzan Yamamoto
  Hozan Yamamoto
  Hōzan Yamamoto is a Japanese shakuhachi player, composer and lecturer....
  
   shakuhachi
  Shakuhachi
  The is a Japanese end-blown flute. It is traditionally made of bamboo, but versions now exist in ABS and hardwoods. It was used by the monks of the Fuke school of Zen Buddhism in the practice of...