Brian Ritchie - Ryoanji
 | Primary Artist |
| Brian Ritchie | |
| Album Title | |
| Ryoanji | |
| Release Date | |
| 2006 | |
| Time | |
An austere visual presentation helps set this side of Brian Ritchie's music apart from
the rip-roaring, crowd-pleasing bass solos with The Violent Femmes. He has adopted the name of Brian Tairaku Ritchie in connection with his studies of the shakuhachi and Japanese music and so should all serious students of the musical arts be allowed to adorn themselves. As the great Wadada Ishmael Leo Smith said, "just wait til I start moving up and down with the names, too."
As for the name Ryoanji, it has been used in the past as the title of recordings connected to a John Cage composition which comes as well out of a deep interest in the fascinating traditional music of Japan. Read More
the rip-roaring, crowd-pleasing bass solos with The Violent Femmes. He has adopted the name of Brian Tairaku Ritchie in connection with his studies of the shakuhachi and Japanese music and so should all serious students of the musical arts be allowed to adorn themselves. As the great Wadada Ishmael Leo Smith said, "just wait til I start moving up and down with the names, too."
As for the name Ryoanji, it has been used in the past as the title of recordings connected to a John Cage composition which comes as well out of a deep interest in the fascinating traditional music of Japan. Read More
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