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Indie Zapadha's Songs of the Lonely Samurai / The Bushidō Sessions is an episode of real sounds of emotional discipline from a life long path of devotional struggles of inner and outer disciplines. The pre-industrial Samurai lived his life out of pure devotion.

Indie Zapadha's Songs of the Lonely Samurai are dedicated to the pre industrial Japanese Samurais and to the seekers of today! For their devotion to cultivate inner strengths to be totally aware through discipline, and to cultivate a keen sense of meditation. Through a solitary path of spiritual exploration of the self.

These songs offer an imagery of life through an intense journey of devotion, seeking the unknown through frugality, loyalty, martial arts mastery, and honor until death...

The Bushidō Sessions celebrate the instrumental diversity of each artist who bring a distinct style and sound that is single pointed and straight to zen and the art of self! "who am I"... Like a Samurai our featured artists represent the creative forces of self discovery through music, art, life encounters....

Songs of the Lonely Samurai are rare tracks selected from the distinct discipline of the nature of a Lonely Samurai. The dance of the Lonely Samurai embraces the Loneliness of the Solitary nature of life itself. It's the way of the warrior, an honor until death.

Samurai (侍?) is the term for the military nobility of pre industrial Japan. According to translator William Scott Wilson: "In Chinese, the character was originally a verb meaning to wait upon or accompany a person in the upper ranks of society, and this is also true of the original term in Japanese, saburau. In both countries the terms were nominalized to mean "those who serve in close attendance to the nobility," the pronunciation in Japanese changing to saburai."

According to Wilson, an early reference to the word Samurai appears in the Kokinshu, the first imperial anthology of poems, completed in the first part of the tenth century. By the end of the 12th century, saburai became synonymous with bushi (武士) almost entirely and the word was closely associated with the middle and upper echelons of the warrior class. The samurai followed a set of unwritten rules called the Bushidō.

Bushidō (武士道?), meaning "Way of the Warrior", is a Japanese code of conduct and a way of the samurai life, loosely analogous to the concept of chivalry. It originates from the samurai moral code and stresses frugality, loyalty, martial arts mastery, and honor until death.

Born of two main influences, the violent existence of the samurai was tempered by the wisdom and serenity of Confucianism and Buddhism. Bushidō developed between the 9th to 12th centuries and numerous translated documents dating from the 12th to 16th centuries demonstrate its wide influence across the whole of Japan.[1]

According to the Japanese dictionary Shogakukan Kokugo Daijiten, "Bushidō is defined as a unique philosophy (ronri) that spread through the warrior class from the Muromachi (chusei) period." In Bushidō: The Soul of Japan (1899), author Nitobe Inazō wrote: "...Bushidō, then, is the code of moral principles which the samurai were required or instructed to observe... More frequently it is a code unuttered and unwritten... It was an organic growth of decades and centuries of military career."

Indie Zapadha's Songs of the Lonely Samurai is a mixed genre of various artists of Jazz, World, Electronica & Dance, Alternative & Punk, Rock, Old Country, R & B. Featured Fellow Travelers ( artists / musicians ) include: Etta James, Gillian Welch, Mandalay, Ben Harper, Baden Powell, Dusty Springfield, Mazzy Star, Paco Fernandez & Levitation Feat. Cathy Battistessa, Nina Simone, Vijay Raghav Rao, Nirvana, Nitin Sawhney, Bugge Wesseltoft, Tram, Endorfin, Afterlife, Djivan Gasparyan, Kyoto Shakuhachi Master, G S Sachdev, Philip Boulding, Byungki Hwang,Sali Sidibe, Soliman Gamil, Rachcel's, U Srivinas, Rae & Christian ...

Songs of the Lonely Samurai

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