In the News
New solo CD by Bruno Deschênes
Released on October 12, 2017
Available on: iTunes.com, Amazon MP3, CDBaby.com
Bruno Deschênes released a new solo CD on shakuhachi. It is available on iTunes.com, Amazon MP3 and CDBaby.com. The CD offers 10 pieces, 6 from different Japanese repertoires, while the 4 other are his own original pieces. One is solo, two are in duo and the last one is in trio.
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The Matsu Take Ensemble CD
Released by ARC Music, U.K.
The 2016 CD of the Matsu Take Ensemble, Yamabiko, will be released internationally by the label ARC Music from U.K., on June 30, 2017.
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New book by Bruno Deschênes on the shakuhachi
Le shakuhachi japonais, Une tradition réinventée, Éditions L'Harmattan, Paris
Bruno Deschênes has published a book in French on the shakuhachi. This book is the first in French entirely dedicated to the shakuhachi. Although ethnomusicological, it has been written from the point of the musician, looking in particular at how that musical instrument has been reinvented for our modern era.
It is available at the following Web site (in French): http://www.editions-harmattan.fr
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Concert by Michel Dubeau and Bruno Deschênes in Vancouver
They received their shihan
On Saturday 27, 2016, Michel Dubeau and Bruno Deschênes gave a concert alongside Alcvin Ryuzen Ramos in Sechelt, a small town north of Vancouver. For the occasion, Alcvin Ruyzen Ramos awarded to both of them their shihan, their master title in shakuhachi.
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Michel Dubeau and Bruno Deschênes attend a shakuhachi making workshop in Vancouver
Following up on their trip to Japan in November of 2015, Michel Dubeau and Bruno Deschênes attended on August 27 and 28 a shakuhachi making workshop with Alcvin Ruyzen Ramos, so they could make their own shakuhachi. Their understanding of honkyoku and shakuhachi was greatly deepened by learning how to make with one's hand such a beautiful flute.
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The Matsu Take Ensemble has released in June 30, 2016, a new CD
The Matsu Take Ensemble is proud to announce that it has released on June 30, 2016, its new CD: Yamabiko, Mountain Echo. The CD is available on iTunes and Amazon MP3.
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Michel Dubeau and Bruno Deschênes are travelling to Japan
Michel Dubeau and Bruno Deschênes are travelling to Japan from October 30 to November 27 2015. They will be part of a group of shakuhachi players going to Japan to take workshops on the shakuhachi, get lessons with major masters, harvest bamboos so they could make later on their own flute, as well as visit important places linked to the history of that flute.
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Dans nos Laurentides Web site, critic of October 26, 2013 concert by the Matsu Take Ensemble. (In French only.)
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Le Devoir newspaper, Montréal, October 25, 2013.
Critic of Nagaré by Bruno Deschênes
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September 2013. Bruno Deschênes releases his first solo CD on the shakuhachi
Bruno Deschênes has released in September 2013 a first solo CD on shakuhachi. He presents pieces from the honkyoku repertoire, the repertoire solo for shakuhachi. He presents also an original piece he wrote in the spirit of the meditative pieces, as well as an arrangement for 2 shakuhachi of one of the most beautiful piece for shakuhachi: Tsuru no sugomori, Nesting Cranes. This piece is traditionnally performed solo. Bruno Deschênes performs both parts.
This CD is available on iTunes.com, amazon.com, CDBaby.com and Bandcamp.com.
You can also hear it all on SoundCloud.com or Ethnocloud.com.
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Bruno Deschênes publishes an article on the Internet
In the last issue of Canadian Folk Music, vol., no. 4 (2013), you can read an article by Bruno Deschênes on the learning of the shakuhachi. The article is in French.
Please, visit the following link to read it: http://www.canfolkmusic.ca/index.php/cfmb/issue/current/showToc.
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The Matsu Take Ensemble on the Web
Come and hear us at the following Web sites:
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The Matsu Take Ensemble launch its first CD
on March 12, 2007, in Montréal
Produced by Québec label 123jam.com
On March 2007, the Matsu Take Ensemble will launch its first CD. You will hear on this CD, titled The Mysterious Sound of the Wind in the Bamboo, Michel Dubeau and Bruno Deschênes on shakuhachi. They present shakuhachi solos and duets. They are accompagnied by Kayo Yasuhara on taiko (a Japanese drum) in 2 Japanese folk songs. Emiko Toguchi presents an improvisation on koto with Michel Dubeau playing the shinobue, a small Japanese bamboo transverse flute. You will hear folk songs, classical pieces, original pices by Michel Dubeau and Bruno Deschênes. Most of the duets are arrangement by Bruno Deschênes.
You can buy the CD by visiting the following web site: www.123jam.com.
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Critics of our CD, in Montreal's Le Devoir, Friday, March 30, 2007
by Yves Bernard
Here is a first critics of our CD by Montreal's Le Devoir critic yves Bernard, published Friday, March 30, 2007.
Unfortunately, it is only in French.
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