Japan Sound Portrait

featuring: Forest Whitaker reciting a quote from the Hagakure in Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai, discussing the central tenet of the Hannya Shingyo / Heart Sutra that form is emptiness and emptiness is form. Field recordings from walking the 88 Temple Shikoku pilgrimage One of my favourite tracks that I ever made with my friend Koichi Yuasa, a tea farmer, as shinekosei Field recordings from Tom Swindell and Akinobu Tatsumi from the film they are currently shooting about the aftermath of the earthquake in the Kumamoto region A new track from TA2MI| Akinobu Tatsumi A recording of the Buddhist Nenbutsu chant at Tatsumi's temple Shosanji, as appears in the film KanZeOn. Part of the soundtrack for KanZeOn created out of field recordings by ManOne A rapped hagiography of the 8th century Esoteric Buddhist polymath Kukai, by GMC, over a remix of the KanZeOn soundtrack by shinekosei, featuring Eri Fujii. Finishing with a recording of shomyo chanting at Kongobuji temple on Mount Koya. Thanks to Elizabeth Tinsle