JUNIO 2011 – A Journey in Music: Contemporary World Music in Taiwan – June 22, 2011 – Colaboración de la Revisa Ren Lai

A Journey in Music: Contemporary World Music in Taiwan – June 22, 2011 – Colaboración de la Revisa Ren Lai

El 22 de Junio se lanzó el disco Taiwan Contemporary World Music en el que participan 12 bandas locales que interpretan este tipo de música. La produccion corrió a cargo de la Revista Ren Lai. Cerise Phiv colaboradora de la revista coordinó los esfuerzos para realizar este disco. Asimismo Fabián Torres (Fao) estuvo a cargo de la curaduría y la producción de los conciertos. Idea original de José Duarte quien también participó en uno de los tres conciertos y en la curaduria del disco. Mas informacion aquí.

Se destaca la participación de solistas y grupos experimentales como Minkoku Hyakunen, Fao, Luo Chao-Yun y Ka Dao Yin entre otros.

CD Track List

2. Ganesh (2006) 5:59 – A Moving Sound
Ganesh is one of the most popular Hindu Gods who is said to be able to break through all obstacles and bring wisdom and good fortune. If you want to live as artist in Taiwan or anywhere else on this planet you must have Ganesh on your side! A Moving Sound borrows a taste of India in this compostion and adds to it the flavor of beautiful Chinese instruments such as the erhu and zhong ruan with vocalist Mia Hsieh’s lush and evocative singing. (Composer: Scott Prairie).

3. Sukhena  Live recording at Witch House in Taipei (2010) 5:10 – Coromandel Express
SUKHENA, Sanskrit for “Transcendental Happiness,” is based on the midnight melody, Raga Chandrakauns. Centuries of musicians have played this raga in honor of Chandra, the moon.  Enjoy the pulsing grooves as you are lifted up to the moon by Sukhena – Coromandel Express’ frenetic celebration of nocturnal joy! (Composed by Wakaike Toshihiro “Waka”&Kanemitsu Ryohei”YO”; arranged by Coromandel Express).

4. Future Island Underground (2011) 3:38 – Minkoku Hyakunen
We tried to compose a world-music piece with the idea of noise, random and asymmetry. Zhang and Huang ask their friend Imyme to join them just for fun. Maybe you could call it “under-world music”? We hope that people in the future will love it! (Composers: You-sheng Zhang and Da-wang Huang).

5. Mambe in Solitude (2011) 7:01 – Fao
“Mambe” is a traditional way of chewing coca leaves for aboriginals in South America. It is a ritual for recharging energy day by day and is also a tool used by shamans to acquire different powers. The piece narrates my inner journey chewing coca in solitude in the Amazon. The piece contains Chinese flutes and guqin (古琴), Indian tabla and electronic sounds. The instruments play their characteristic sound in their respective traditional music, but sometimes with a different flavour, so the flutes can sound like music from the Andes, the tabla like Afro-American drums, and the guqin (古琴) like primitive jungle string instruments, while the final rhythm resembles Colombia’s cumbia. The electronics adds the colours of the “other reality” seen while chewing coca. (Composer: Fao)

6. Liquid Reincarnation (2010) 3:43 -Usi AJ
One chilly evening, I dreamt I was a drop of water, who evaporated into the sky, but fell back to the ground with the rain. After repeating this process several times, I was tossing and turning and awoke in my dream. I immediately documented this feeling with this emphatic work, a rarity in the Chinese world. (Composer: Usi AJ)

7. Ay Mujé (2011) 4:09 – Alma Itana
Ay Mujé (pronounced Ay Muhe) is a song inspired by the experience of a passionate love, which was not returned, like so many in life. Even though the girl seems to love him, she plays with his feelings, pretending a summer love in the middle of the winter. (Composer: Guillermo Esquivel)
“Ay mujé ya no juegues mas con mi ser, mirame a los ojos y dime , que soy para ti?”
[English] “Oh Woman, do not play anymore with my heart, look at my eyes and tell me, what am I for you?”

8. Harvest Drum (2011) 5:27 – Flâneur Daguerre
Harvest Drum is our arrangement of a well-known melody heard around Chinese New Year. Amidst the festival clamor is a chance to feature Weichung Lin’s superb drumming. Our version takes many sharp turns, changing key almost every measure, and combines the local festival image with heroic ‘spaghetti western’ film music, Tom Waits, or whatever you might hear in your own listening! (Composed by P’eng Hsiu-wen (彭修文), arr. Flâneur Daguerre).

9. Sibboleth Bassadeh (2010) 5:21 – Orbit Folks
Sibboleth Bassadeh is a traditional Jewish folk song. Orbit Folks rearranged the melody and inserted a section open to improvisation. There is no fixed form, only tonal center (Dm) around which the musicians improvise melodies and chord changes.

10. Quaquaversality (2009) 7:00 – Luo Chao Yun & Quaqua
This piece was recorded live in London as part of the three day Fete Quaqua 2009. The aim of the music is for the musicians, acknowledged masters of their respective instruments and all from different backgrounds, to spontaneously play music together. A basic given being that any sounds available from the instrument can be considered as possible musical material. In this piece it is possible to hear pipa player Luo Chao yun using many non-traditional techniques including playing notes not on the fingerboard and using a slide. (Luo Chao Yun: pipa,  John Russell, UK: guitar, Sabu Toyozumi, Japan: drums, Henry Lowther, UK: trumpet, Lol Coxhill, UK: soprano saxophone).

11. Thin Streams Flow Forever (2011) 5:08 – Ka Dao Yin
We use Yunnan folk tune “little river drips water” as materials for doing a conversation of improvisation.

12. Culture Clash (2006) 5:05 – Viba
Lush electronic pads, beats, and effects, fused with dancing zithers of Cherry Wang and Chinese instrumentation. This song was the foundation for my East-West Relations album. (Paul Gourier: Composer, Cherry Wang : Zither).

Videos:

Entrevista con Ka Dao Yin

Entrevista con Minkoku Hyakunen

Entrevista con Fao:

Flâneur Daguerre: An Alternative to Modern Jazz

Asimismo se realizaron 3 conciertos con las bandas que aparecen en el disco:

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