Yabuki, Shiho: The Body Is A Message Of The Universe = からだは宇宙のメッセージ (CD)

Originally created and released in a small edition in Japan back in 1987 by the mysterious musician/ magician Shiho. The album features floating shimmering synthesizer textures. It's unique and extra ordinarily serene with shifting tone colors and spatial textures bringing the listener to a special magic place. It's as beautiful as it captivating. There's also a haunting edge to parts of the album sounding like what could originally have infuenced David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti when they composed the soundtrack to the original Twin Peaks series.

Shiho who loves to make improvisational music began studying classic  piano at the age of five. She says she gets inspiration from the celestial realms but she never considers melody. She draws a musical picture. Creativity is the unfolding of the unknown realms within the self. Through our chosen ways of expression, each of us is daily creating a unique universe, a unique environment. The universe created by each and every being in endless repetition are messages of the universe. The breath of this music, expressed from my present environment, fowing through a myriad of places as environmental music is my expression of The Body Is A Message Of The Universe. Part of the album also saw a limited US CD release in the late 1980s which is hard to come by today.

Although Shiho Yabuki continued her career in Japan, both as a musician and magician and became a pioneer of healing music in Asia, for most western listeners it was like Shiho was one of those mysterious artists who puts out an album and then is never heard from again.

1. Tomoshibi = 灯
2. Samadhi = 〈三味〉
3. Winterland = 冬　冷気
4. Tenshingoso = 天真五柤 (Earth, Wind, Fire, Water, And Spirit)
5. Forestland = 春
6. Tawamure = 戯れ (Cosmic Dance)
7. Ki No Nagare = 気の流れ (The Way Of Energy Flow)