kaze no denwa by Luke Gullickson published on 2017-04-20T16:07:53Z performed by New Music New Mexico, conducted by David Felberg “Kaze no denwa” is Japanese for “wind telephone.” In the coastal town of Otsuchi, which was devastated by the earthquake and tsunami of March 2011, a gardener named Itaru Sasaki installed a white phone booth on his land overlooking the ocean. Thousands of visitors have come to this booth, to use its old rotary phone to speak to the relatives they lost in the tsunami. The phone is disconnected; words spoken into the receiver go nowhere—or perhaps everywhere, as the wind carries them away. Genre Wind