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Cuban Chinese
A 4 disc World set featuring great artists of Cuba & China - A 4 disc World set featuring great artists of Cuba & China. This set includes Cuban great Jose Angel Navarros Miel album, the collaboration of Cuban legends Omar Hernandez and Ernan Lopez-Nussa as well as Chinese Pipa master Wu Yuxia performing a 2 cd set entitled Ode to mountain Changbai. A very special offering only available here.- Shop: odax
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China: The Art of the Pipa
François Picard (Flöte - Xiao)- Shop: odax
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Chinese Masterpieces of the Pipa and Quin
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Lute Legends: Ancient Airs from East and West
This CD was generously funded by an artist development grant from the Ontario Arts Council. Recorded February 2008, St. John Chrysostom Catholic Church (Newmarket, ON) Recording engineer & producer: Norbert Kraft Digital Editing: Lucas Harris Booklet design: Rose Zhao Photography: Terry Williams 13-course Baroque lute after Jauch (Michael Schreiner, 2006) 13-course Baroque lute after Frei (Michael Schreiner, 2001): tracks 3&4 Lucas Harris began his musical life as a jazz guitarist in his hometown of Phoenix, Arizona. After graduating summa cum laude from Pomona College, he studied for a year in Milan, Italy as one of the first Marco Fodella Foundation scholars and then at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen. Lucas now keeps a busy schedule as a continuo player for dozens of Baroque ensembles across North America. He is the regular lutenist with the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, and has been living in Toronto since early 2004. Lucas is a regular on the faculty for the Oberlin Conservatory's Baroque Performance Institute and the Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute, and has also taught for Amherst Early Music, the International Baroque Institute at Longy, and the New York Continuo Collective. He is a founder of the Toronto Continuo Collective, a weekly class and performing 'pluck band' dedicated to the art of seventeenth-century accompaniment. Beyond continuo work, recent solo and directing projects include a concerto program for CBC radio's Young Artist Series, a recital for the Minnesota Guitar Society, a production of Cavalli's La Calisto at Ohio State University, and a program with the Pacific Baroque Orchestra in Vancouver. Lucas was praised for his work with Les voix humaines in Montréal: "The revelation of the concert was the Torontonian lutenist Lucas Harris, who weaved a poetic thread through his infinitely subtle interventions. The sweetness and patience of his playing . . . was astonishing." (Le Devoir) Wen Zhao is an internationally acclaimed pipa virtuoso, a sensitive and lyrical performer. Born in Beijing, she began to study the pipa at the age of seven, eventually completing her university study with the renowned pipa master Wang Fan Di. After winning the first prize at Beijing Youth National Instrument Competition in 1995, Wen continued her musical career in England, performing and teaching Chinese music throughout the U.K. Wen lives in Toronto since 1997, and teaches pipa at both the Royal Conservatory of Music and York University in Toronto. Zhao has appeared at major ethnic music festivals worldwide, including those in China, Switzerland, the U.K., Canada, and the U.S. These appearances deeply impressed the audience and were highly acclaimed by the media: BBC TV, CBC TV, CBC radio and OMNI TV have all broadcasted her solo performances. The Toronto Star and several Chinese media groups have interviewed her to showcase her masterful pipa playing. Beyond her work as a soloist, Zhao has collaborated with some world's top Western ensembles, including Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, London Grand Union Orchestra, and the Accordes String Quartet. She is especially honoured to be one of the featured musicians for the CBC award-winning documentary film The Four Seasons Mosaic. The Duo Wen and Lucas met through the many performances of 'The Four Seasons: A Cycle of the Sun,' a Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra concert/touring program and CBC documentary designed by Tafelmusik bassist Alison Mackay which juxtaposes Vivaldi's famous concerto cycle with other eighteenth-century music about nature from three non-European traditions. This program has toured Canada, the United States, and China. The two decided to embark on a project that would juxtapose the traditions of European and Chinese lute performance: both the many similarities (their common ancestor from the Middle East, their noble social status, their similar shape and design, and that both have a very ancient history and a strong body of surviving repertoire from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries) as well as their differences (especially the astonishing capacity of the pipa's four simple strings for melodic shape, color, and descriptive textures versus the lute's tradition of counterpoint and harmony, supported by many pairs of double courses of strings including deep bass notes). The two have performed duet arrangements in several Toronto venues: on the 'Musically Speaking' series at Trinity Church, the Toronto Harbourfront Music Garden series, and at the Music Gallery in a recital sponsored by Baroque Music Beside the Grange and the Chinese Artists' Society of Toronto. They also performed in China at the Beijing Natural History Museum and the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum. They also created the duo program 'Lettres chinoises' which was performed at the Montreal Baroque Festival in July 2008.- Shop: odax
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All Those Things That Appear
Totally new ways of approaching music, gripping emotional content inventively transitioning between moods, genres and cultures - from the tranquil delicacy of strings to infectious funk to the depths of spacey fragility to swooning lyrical themes, and blues, like a delicious, desperately painful slow motion taffy-pull of palpable sorrow you can feel welling up in your gut. Phew! It's almost like his guitar's notes are making love to the listener, you can feel the waves of sensations going through your whole body, just pining for the next note to come. And as soon as you are drifting into an alpha state he startles you to attention with complex, hard funking middle eastern percussion, over burbly trance electronica - elegantly and seamlessly integrating complex time signatures as if nothing was more natural. Multiple genres insanely tied together in unique ways that come out sounding as if there was nothing more perfectly natural in the world - and all impeccably executed., multiple simple ideas, tied together in inventive and brilliantly complex and unexpected ways. It's like Kinsella just stepped on earth and is taking what is available with no preconceived thoughts of how music SHOULD be. All as created by Kinsella as he presents his musical ideas as filtered through his life of chronic pain due to musculoskeletal problems. It's not too often that you hear someone completely reinvent music and in such a prolific manner (Kinsella has been managing to put out 3 completely new releases a year for the past couple years). Composition, performance, engineering, production, programming and artwork by Pat Kinsella. On this disk, Pat Kinsella played: electric, archtop, acoustic, and lap steel guitars, resonator, fretless bass, fretted bass, guitar synthesizer, synthesizers, samplers, doutar, erhu, pipa, darbuka, cornet, clarinet, cigar tubes, CPAP tubing, cow hooves. The title The Flame That Burns Twice as Bright is from the line "The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.' by Laozi' in the Tao Te Ching A Good Ole Boy is dedicated to Gerry Freeman, a Good Ole Boy from Detroit. ...Ready for Bed? - Saturday Night 11:31pm is dedicated to my wife Lynne for all the time I spend away from her working on this. Let's Banish Him (When The Pin Is Pulled, Mr. Grenade Is No Longer Our Friend) is dedicated to Rat Bastard.- Shop: odax
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New Frontiers
Vancouver Chinese Music Ensemble - History In 1999, the Vancouver Chinese Instrumental Music Society was established to support the work of the Vancouver Chinese Music Ensemble, which was formed in 1989. The Ensemble has worked with several Vancouver-based composers, including Rui Shi Zhuo, Mark Armanini, Janet Danielson, Nai Chung Kuan, Qing Hua Zheng, Jin Zhang, Lisa Miller, Kang Nian Tang, Michael O'Neill, Jon Siddall, Jacqueline Leggatt and John Oliver. This versatile group embraces the popular and the classical traditions of China as well as western classical and contemporary music performed on Chinese instruments. The Ensemble has a broad repertoire encompassing traditional music from various regions of China, to adaptations of Canadian folk songs and other music. In addition to self-produced concert presentations, the Ensemble has presented educational concerts and performed at local events including Vancouver New Music events, the Sonic Boom Festival, the Vancouver Folk Music Festival and Chinese community celebrations, as well as in concerts and at music festivals across Canada and in the United States. They have performed at festivals in Montreal, Winnipeg, Edmonton and Mission, and in concerts in Montreal, Toronto, Hamilton, Richmond Hill, Kitimat, Osoyoos and Kamloops. In the United States, the Ensemble has performed in Portland, Port Angeles and Seattle. The group has performed in schools across BC and has showcased at regional and national events including Pacific Contact, ArtScan and the Canada Council for the Arts' Presence Conference. They released their first CD, Transplanted Purple Bamboo, in 2000 and their second CD, New Frontiers, in 2006. Together with the Ensemble, the Society works to educate Canadian audiences about traditional Chinese music and contemporary music for Chinese instruments and/or based on Chinese music. Highlights of Past Activities National Tour (April 19-27, 2008) The Vancouver Chinese Music Ensemble raised it's national profile by presenting a concert program of traditional and contemporary music at eight venues in Quebec and Ontario in April 2008, including Festival Musique Multi-Montreal, art centres in Montreal, the Music Gallery in Toronto, the Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts and the Art Gallery of Hamilton. One Montreal performance sold out and five performances drew near capacity audiences. The tour received significant coverage by local media in Montreal, Toronto and Hamilton, including Radio Canada, OMNI TV, Sing Tao Daily, Ming Pao Daily and Whitenotes. This tour gave national exposure to the Vancouver Chinese Music Ensemble and it's ground-breaking performances of contemporary music for Chinese instruments. This opportunity will build new markets for the ensemble's live performances and Canadian compositions nationally. Showcase at the Harbourfront Centre in Toronto (December 5, 2007) The Ensemble was one of only five artists from across Canada selected to showcase at the Canada Council for the Arts' Presence Conference at Harbourfront Centre in Toronto in December 2007. Word of mouth and feedback for the event from both participants and audience was tremendous. The audience, consisting of artists, presenters, funders and others from arts communities across Canada, were able to hear traditional and contemporary Chinese music performed by some of the finest Chinese instrumentalists in Canada and the world. Release of first contemporary Chinese music album: New Frontiers New Frontiers, the Vancouver Chinese Music Ensemble's second recording, features works by five Canadian composers, two born in Canada and three who were born and raised in China before coming to Canada, performed on a combination of contemporary and traditional Asian and Western instruments. The New Frontiers CD includes Goldfish by Mark Armanini, Sinewave by Janet Danielson, Courage by Ji Rong Huang, Awakening by Jin Zhang, and Gu and Ling by Rui Shi Zhuo, performed by the Ensemble featuring Ji Rong Huang on erhu (Chinese violin), Yong Sun on dizi (Chinese flute), Vivian Xia on yangqin (Chinese hammered dulcimer), Zhi Min Yu on ruan (Chinese guitar), Angela Wang on pipa (Chinese lute) & vocals, Gui Lian Liu on pipa and Wei Li on zheng (Chinese harp). Guest percussionist, Bruce Henczel, is featured on Huang's Courage and Zhuo's Ling and Uzume Taiko's Bonnie Soon and Boyd Seiichi Grealy performed on Japanese drums on Zhang's Awakening. "There is nothing earnest or dogmatic in any of this music. The Vancouver Chinese Music Ensemble plays with passion and the insight of those who know how to perform for an audience. Their music forms an integral part of the new Canada, and the next chapter for contemporary classical music here, even as the result of the development of these instruments ripples out into the world and by consequence, back to the country of their origin." -- Jon Siddall Selected Repertoire Un Canadien Errant (2007), John Oliver* Consensus* (2007), John Oliver* Nine Steps to Heaven (2007), Mark Armanini* Stark Raving (2007), John Korsrud* Intarsia (2006), Jacqueline Leggatt* Impromptu (2006), Kang Nian Tang* Cormorants (2005), Lisa Miller* Hou Yi Shot the Suns (2004), Jin Zhang* Essence of a Feather Floating* (2003), Jon Siddall* Tracing (2003), Jin Zhang* Young Men of Asi Dancing in the Moonlight (2002), Nai Chung Kuan* Awakening* (2001), Jin Zhang* Adagio 40 (2001), Rui Shi Zhuo* Yao (The Dream of Yesterday, Here and Today)* (1999), Rui Shi Zhuo* Ling* (1999), Rui Shi Zhuo* Gu* (1995), Rui Shi Zhuo* Transplanted Purple Bamboo, Ji Rong Huang* In Bamboo Village, Jin Zhang* A Song From A Far Away Place, Yong Sun* A Song from Mongolia, Vivian Xia* Ambush from All Sides, Ancient Melody Herdsman's Song, Guang Yi Jian Spring at Tian Shan, Deng Tiao Hu Birds Echo in Silent Mountains, Tian Hua Liu.- Shop: odax
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