FIVE RINGS

Genre  World 

Catalogue: Phasma-Music 117

UPC: 731093480997

recording, editing: mastering: Costas Bokos

recording place: Studio 19, Athens, Greece
production management: Iwona Glinka

artwork: Nikos Bratos
graphic design: Michail Travlos

composed and produced by Enodia Ensemble 

Stamatis Dellaportas, clarinet, soprano recorder, alto recorder, tenor recorder, shakuhachi

Thanasis Koumenteris, live electronics

Giannis Notaras, frame drums, udu drum, voice, Ocean drum, shakers, wind chimes, jingles, cymbals, gongs, bells 

Enodia Ensemble 

takes its name from the ancient Greek word Enodia—a meeting point, a path in between, a place of passage and connection. This idea lies at the core of the ensemble’s identity: music as a space where different worlds converge—composition and improvisation, tradition and contemporary expression, sound and silence.

​In Five Rings, this convergence is explored through the philosophy of Miyamoto Musashi.

Here, the world is understood through five elemental states: 

Earth, Water, Fire, Wind, and Void.

Rather than approaching these as fixed ideas, they are treated as shifting conditions—spaces of transformation where sound emerges, evolves, and dissolves.
​Improvisation becomes the medium through which these states are explored, unfolding as a continuous passage from the grounded presence of Earth to the openness of Void.

Product details:

01.Earth  

02. Water

03. Fire   

04. Wind

05. Void      

Total Time:  [49:11]