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Japan’s Beatboxing Buddhist Monk
He creates music for meditations
When you heard the word ‘monk’, your probably thinking of a person who practices religious. A monk may be a person who decides to dedicate his life to serving all other living beings, or to be an ascetic who voluntarily chooses to leave mainstream society and live his or her life in prayer and contemplation.
But have you ever heard about Beatboxing Buddhist Monk. Today we will be looking at this beatboxing buddhist monk that rise out to change perceptions of spiritual music.
Meet Yogetsu Akasaka, a Japanese Zen Buddhist monk who creates music for meditations. But not the kind most people are familiar with. In videos uploaded on YouTube, he stands in the middle of a white background, grabs a mic, and beatboxes to a loop machine.
You can find his Youtube channel here: Yogetsu Akasaka赤坂陽月
“It’s not that I wanted to gain attention for my ‘uniqueness,’ I just wanted to continue my passion for music,” he said. “In the same way someone plays the guitar or the drums, I…
