Kazu Matsui
Kazu Matsui
Top Songs
| 1 | Small Monk, Opening The Gate | ||
| 2 | Black Bird & The Bamboo Forest | ||
| 3 | Shrine | ||
| 4 | Crow | ||
| 5 | Eye Of The Moon |
Albums
Sep 2006 • 16 songs
Jan 2005 • 10 songs
Jan 2002 • 20 songs
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Biography
A master of the shakuhachi (a Japanese traditional bamboo flute), new age artist Kazu Matsui was born in Tokyo on June 5, 1954. After spending the mid-'70s traveling through Europe and India, he studied ethnic arts at UCLA, returning to Tokyo to teach Educational Theories at Toyoeiwa Woman's University. Matsui concurrently mounted his music career with sessions including Danny O'Keefe's 1979 LP The Global Blues, subsequently appearing on sessions headlined by Ry Cooder (1982's Slide Area) and Joni Mitchell (1985's Dog Eat Dog); he additionally contributed music to a series of ...