A Silk Road Journey to the West

 

  ... The Tang Dynasty manuscripts survived mainly in Japan — in manuscripts imported from China. Eurasia Consort plays music from the Tang Court, and they rely on transcriptions made by Musicologists. This year Gogen Biwa (Five string lute) was just added and is played by August. It is based on a model in the Shosoin, as was Tomoko's kugo and Rex's Hokyo. James Nyoraku Schlefer plays a Shakuhachi, a Japanese flute and gamin plays a Korean piri-pipe