Sheng Xiang and Water 3 - Getting Dark - CD
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CD cover image Sheng Xiang and Water 3
Getting Dark (Trees Music)
$16.99

A founder of the political folk group Labor Exchange band, Sheng Xiang and fellow Laborer Yongfeng have gathered a new group of musicians together to create Water 3: Mark Jia-Xi Peng (Little Peng), harmonica; Lu Jiajun (Little Six), fretless bass; Zhong Yufeng, three-string lute, moon guitar and pipa-lute.

 

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Founding member of the now-defunct Labor Exchange Band, Sheng Xiang is a Hakka social activist and musician who was involved in the anti-Meinung Dam movement of the 1990s. He documented the stories and feelings of the Hakka in the Labor Exchange Band's award-winning album "Let's Sing Mountain Songs".

cd cover After the Labor Exchange Band disbanded, Sheng Xiang and Yongfeng still collaborated together to compose songs. They also found Mark, Jia-Xi Peng (Little Peng), a harmonica player; Lu Jiajun (Little Six), a fretless bass player; Zhong Yufeng, a lute player (three-string, moon guitar and pipa-lute); and others to help with the album "Getting Dark"¨. Each time before practice, the musicians would rush to the mountain district of Danshui to find the small road leading to Shuiyuan Village that ended up at the Tile Kiln Pit Compound. There they took up the work of composing songs. The music started in the ambiance of the farm compound, harmonized with the cicada calls and birdsong of the mountainside woods, under the cries of circling eagles in the summer skyˇK.

The musicians really liked the feeling of making music in the Tile Kiln Pit Compound, so "Sheng Xiang & Water 3" was born.

The album "Getting Dark" combines the wandering poeticism of Yongfeng, the folksong style of Sheng-xiang, the crazy but precise harmonica of Little Peng, the congealed purity of Little Six's bass, the traditional flavor of Yufeng's strings and the tone of life and nature's harmonies.

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