Blue Cat at 2:00 am

Two o'clock in the morning. Just before the hour when even the trees and grasses are said to sleep, a profound stillness settles over the world, as though time itself has come to a halt. Out of the darkness, a lone cat appears on the veranda of a traditional Japanese house, bathed in blue light-
This piece captures that mysterious, dreamlike vision of the night. Traditional Japanese instruments-including the shakuhachi, koto, and shamisen-answer one another in an elegant interplay, weaving supple, graceful lines between the main melody and countermelody. The result is a composition imbued throughout with a distinctly Japanese sense of beauty.