“The idea that something as incomprehensible and ethereal as a musical composition could be the only ‘material’ remnant of a famous temple was truly fascinating to me. What’s more, it was a composition that should sound like ‘wind blowing through a bamboo grove’. That is how the mysterious ‘blowing Zen’ or ‘blowing meditation’ (Suizen) practised by the mendicant ‘monks of nothingness’ of the Fuke-shu sect used to be described”, Vlastislav Matoušek writes in the sleevenote of his last CD project.
Uvedením taki ochi, jedné z reprezentativních skladeb esoterických noèních obřadů v zen-buddhistických chrámech a Matouškovy vlastní kompozice "V kruhu" na společné nahrávce pořízené během listopadové noci v bechyňském klášteře se v jedné atmosféře prolíná minulé s přítomným, tradiční s novátorským, vzdálené s blízkým. Psané kompozice doplňuje autentický záznam jemného zvuku padající vody, pod jejímž dojmem kdysi kdosi svou skladbu taki ochi vytvořil...
“The idea that something as incomprehensible and ethereal as a musical composition could be the only ‘material’ remnant of a famous temple was truly fascinating to me. What’s more, it was a composition that should sound like ‘wind blowing through a bamboo grove’. That is how the mysterious ‘blowing Zen’ or ‘blowing meditation’ (Suizen) practised by the mendicant ‘monks of nothingness’ of the Fuke-shu sect used to be described”, Vlastislav Matoušek writes in the sleevenote of his last CD project.