Год|Year: 1994
Жанр| Genre: Ethno Jazz, Ethnic, Ambient, Avantgarde, Experimental, Relax
Страна| Country: China, International
Качество| Quality: APE/320 kbps
Размер| Size: 324/148 Mb

Track List

THE BROKEN ZITHER

01. Introduction
02. Boya's Adventures
03. Meeting with the Woodcutter Ziqi
04. A Discourse on the Zither
05. The Appointment with Ziqi
06. Boya's Lament
07. Breaking the Zither

MARRIED TO EXILE

08. Beyond the Great Wall
09. The Goose
10. Looking Back
11. The Nation's Boundaries
12. Oh Mother

Produced by Bill Laswell

Liu Sola — lead and backing vocals
Amina Claudine Myers — Hammond B-3 organ, piano and vocals
Wu Man — pipa
Umar Bin Hassan — storyteller
James Blood Ulmer — guitar
Jason Hwang — violin
Henry Threadgill — saxophone
Ralph Samuelson — shakuhachi
Ned Rothenberg — shakuhachi and woodwinds
Fernando Saunders — bass
Jerome Brailey — drums
Yukio Tshuji — Japanese percussion
Aiyb Dieng — African percussion

Liu Sola is a Chinese musician whose radically distinctive sound incorporates elements of a number of seemingly incongruous influences, including Chinese opera, free jazz, funk, blues, and even Japanese Noh theater. Her debut Western release features a stellar lineup, including organist Amina Claudine Myers, guitarist James Blood Ulmer, drummer Jerome "Bigfoot" Brailey, saxophonist Henry Threadgill, and the Last Poets' Umar Bin Hassan. Produced by acclaimed fusionist Bill Laswell, the album is a typically eclectic pan-cultural experiment, but one that doesn't always hit its mark. When it does, as on songs like "Boya's Adventures," this bizarre collusive concept is as refreshingly original as anything released in the '90s.
~ Bret Love, AMG