From Ayuo’s CD “AOI“ (TZADIK 7260) released in November 2005.
Composed by Ayuo using a text by the medieval Japanese playwright Zeami. based on an episode in “Genji Monogatari“ (Romance of Genji“), written by Lady Murasaki Shikibu, who finished writing it in 1004 AD. In this episode, Lady Rokujo becomes an angry living spirit that flies out of her body to haunt Lady Aoi, even though she herself is unaware of it.
Ayuo’s Electronic Guitar bgeins the piece. Ring Modulators, Pitch Shifters, Distortions and o