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Zhang Ying
Stone,Cloud,Water (Innova Records)
$15.99
A musical travelogue of America by a Chinese composer, Stone,Cloud,Water is a unique experience, that not only makes the leap from the visual to the aural but does it through the eyes of a stranger, rendering archtypical places like Las Vegas, Niagra Falls, the Badlands and the Everglades in a new, sharply focused vision.
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Tracks:
1. Seagulls Over Niagra Falls (8:29)
2. Dusk At The Badlands (13:22)
3. Hunting At Dawn: Canyon Sketches - Ancient Ones 1 (10:39)
4. Dream: Canyon Sketches - Ancient Ones 2 (9:51)
5. Cooking Fires: Canyon Sketches - Ancient Ones 3 (11:20)
6. Full Of Life: The Florida Everglades (8:25)
7. Gambler: Las Vegas (9:43)
The record label says:
Composer Ying Zhang resettled in the United States in 1993 after an illustrious career in China where he appears on the Register of Great Musicians. Also a master flute player, he performs on eleven different traditional flutes, some from Chinese minority cultures. Now he has traveled the U.S. and written and performed music inspired by some of the places he has discovered: Niagara Falls, the Florida Everglades, the Badlands, Las Vegas, and Anasazi cliff dwellings. The result is a richly-orchestrated, curious, delightful, whimsical, haunting and mysterious look at some familiar sights as seen through the eyes of a new American. Featured instruments include the Turkey Bone (a replica of a 7000-year-old bone flute), the Bawu (a globular clay ocarina-like flute), and assorted kitchen utensils.
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"The creator is a majestic artist. He has sculpted such distinct, perfect and unparalleled landscapes in each hemisphere. The grand and awe-inspiring Niagara Falls, and the exquisite and multifaceted Huangguoshu Falls (China) foil one another's beauty yet each shines in its own way. Humans are the same: what binds mankind together is the voice of the heart?human nature, love, and music." - Ying Zhang
"uniquely American... Each piece captures both the majesty of the earth and a real feel for the locale...a blissful travelogue." - Revue "truly amazing...[we were] besieged with phone calls wondering what it was." - WFMU |
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