Shirakawa

Stands and Cairns 1997© Healing Fugu Records

Recorded at Beatnic 80 Studios, Kumamoto, Japan: Engineered by Kazuhisa Tanaka

Contributing Artists: Kyousuke Yamaoka (drums), Sho Tajiri (bass), Keisuke Hirayama (perc)

Taren Yelle (vocal on Shirakawa)

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1. Shirakawa listen 2. Backwards Motion listen 3. Fuyu no kumo (Winter's Clouds) listen 4. Feather's of Guilt listen 5. Piper's Dream listen 6. Train Without Questions listen 7. Snowing listen 8. Hanabashi (Flower Bridge) listen 9. You Called listen   This is the first release by acoustic guitarist Darby Stands and Shakuhachi player Jeff Cairns. The 9 pieces were composed by the duo between 1995 and 1997 and represent images garnered from their varied experiences in Kumamoto, Japan. Darby is now often found wandering the barren night streets of elsewhere in, Japan where he is involved in various musical projects and Jeff resides as a fixture in Kumamoto.

Silent Letters, Secret Pens

Jeff Cairns / Izumi Fujikawa 2006© Healing Fugu Records

Recorded at Mifune Culture Center, Main Concert Hall

Recording engineer: Richard Gilbert

Jeff Cairns: Shakuhachi, Izumi Fujikawa: 13 string koto/ 21 string koto

	1. Shinonome no Uta (Marty Regan)	listen
	2. Through the Leaves (Jeff Cairns)	listen
	3. Midare (traditional)	listen
	4. Shin Kyorei (traditional Kinko-ryu honkyoku)	listen
	5. Reflection (Daniel Morse, 21 string koto solo)	listen
	6. Kai (Saiko Nakamura)	listen
	This is the 2006 release by Jeff Cairns and Izumi Fujikawa of traditional and modern pieces for shakuhachi and koto recorded on the concert stage of Mifune Culture Center's main stage in Kumamoto, Japan.

Other Offerings

Lip Service

Mother Tongue 2002©mothertongue

Recorded at Gold Peak Studio and Quietsite Studio, Kumamoto, Japan.

Engineered by Richard Gilbert and Jeff Cairns

Artists: Richard Gilbert, Jeff Cairns, James Hunter

1. Hardadit listen 2. New Game listen 3. Jungle Dance listen 4. Big White Bread Truck listen 5. Tunnels To You listen 6. Come Here Baby listen 7. Fading Mist listen   This is the first attempt at musical immortality by the troubadourial trio Mother Tongue. Descretely drawing influences from the likes of Frank Zappa, Brian Eno and Barry White, their prime directive is to push the integral envelope. Dispassionate toward convention, though never so much so as to miss out a good lick now and then, and outlanders to borders, new avenues are the only compass point worth following for Mother. Mother's oft-time non-linear musical commentary on the human condition promises to offer new insights at every listen.

Round and Round

Far East Peach Colaboration

	1. Pilgrimage (MomoJ)	listen
	2. Wind From Far East ( Yoskei Sugimoto)	listen
	This is a 2008 colaborative release by the folks at Far East Peach in Tokyo, Japan. I'm featured on shakuhachi on the two tracks above as well as on three other tracks of my own.

Jeff Cairns, Izumi Fujikawa, Jim Kacian

	1.Intoxication (Haiku, Shakuhachi, Koto )	listen
	2. Where The Wind Goes (shakuhachi solo)	listen
	Two improvisations recorded at Mifune Culture Center -Main Concert Hall 2007 featuring Jim Kacian (haiku), Izumi Fujikawa (koto) and Jeff Cairns (shakuhachi).

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