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Yesterday afternoon we went with brother-in-law Zen to hear an ensemble called Yugao. The instrumentation for the group consists of cello, piano, tabla (Indian drums), and shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute). It's not a combination of sounds I would have expected to find. (And we wonder how the group found each other in the first place.) But it works. I mean, it
really works. The sound was full and rich and totally involving.
The setting was interesting. Down some cramped stairs off a main street into a little, slightly run-down bar/restaurant. (There must be hundreds of these in Kyoto and any Japanese city.) There was seating for perhaps twenty people.
