East Meets East - Shakuhachi and Nay - Daha, Sokkan, Shingetsu, Tamuke

“Traditions of music form in separate corners of the world. They occasionally meet, and ideas are exchanged. These meetings do not happen at one point in time; they take decades and centuries to unfold, slowly transforming the receiving traditions. When Kyle Kamal Helou and Bashir Saade made these two instruments converse, they knew they were confronting the laws of time. The impulsive improvisations of the nay have repeatedly crossed four traditional Japanese musical pieces. The Nay asks and the Shakuhashi