Falconer Translation: Japanese Music

Looking for something relaxing to listen to in your office, or perhaps a client gift? - John and Elizabeth offer beautiful music!

This is an other area where attention to details and long years of study have become a part of our everyday lives.

Moonviewing - Perfect for the meditative spirit...

The beauty of cherry blossoms bathed in silver moonlight, lanterns drifting on water and the sounds of nightfall, elegantly evoked by the ancient Japanese shakuhachi bamboo flute and the silken strings of the koto.

Duo En is Elizabeth Falconer and her husband John. They met and fell in love over the beauties of Japanese music. Elizabeth plays the koto, a stringed instrument that is plucked rather like a zither, and John the bamboo flute (shakuhachi.) Neither instrument is simple to play and each takes years to master. The combination is as elemental as moonlight on shimmering water, and this CD captures that effect perfectly.

If you buy one album of Japanese music to start your journey into this wonderful. -Joanna Daneman, Amazon Top 10 Reviewer

This CD is wonderful. Whether you are a fan of traditional Japanese music or experimental American music, I promise you will be impressed. John and Elizabeth never disappoint." - Roger Shimomura, Amazon

This atmospheric CD is both haunting and enchanting, like the full moon in a velvet black sky. Of special note are the compositions by Falconer/Falconer; the sound of shakuhachi and koto weave together to make magic. - J. Shontz, CD Baby

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EN: AFFINITY - Japanese music...with an original touch.

Reaching beyond the style of "meditation music," this is an utterly refreshing take on the versatile sounds of these traditional Japanese instruments.
EN means "Affinity" and this husband-wife duo have an affinity for Japanese music based on years of study in Japan. Award-winning artist Elizabeth Falconer (koto) and John Falconer (shakuhachi bamboo flute) perform original compositions and well-known pieces from Japan, as well as their own arrangements of American spirituals, a romantic classical work, and a lilting Cuban melody.

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