Name: Yuan *
Brand: Tzadik Records
SKU: 732188
Price: 14.2 USD
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Yuan *

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Album: Yuan *
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Lou Lan, for dizi, erhu, yangqin & shougu - (live)
2)	Red Carriage, for solo percussion
3)	Yuah? Yuan! Yuan..., for solo prepared guzheng
4)	She Huo, for pipa, guzheng, voice & percussion ensemble - (live)
5)	Before I Wake, for piano: 1. Hui
6)	Before I Wake, for piano: 2. Mengyi
7)	Before I Wake, for piano: 3. Qi si
8)	Before I Wake, for piano: 4. Niu niu
9)	Before I Wake, for piano: 5. Lai le, zou le

Album: Yuan *
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Lou Lan, for dizi, erhu, yangqin & shougu - (live)
2)	Red Carriage, for solo percussion
3)	Yuah? Yuan! Yuan..., for solo prepared guzheng
4)	She Huo, for pipa, guzheng, voice & percussion ensemble - (live)
5)	Before I Wake, for piano: 1. Hui
6)	Before I Wake, for piano: 2. Mengyi
7)	Before I Wake, for piano: 3. Qi si
8)	Before I Wake, for piano: 4. Niu niu
9)	Before I Wake, for piano: 5. Lai le, zou le

Performer Notes

Personnel: Wu Fei (vocals); Pan E-Qing (pipa); Wang Hong (erhu); Stephen Drury (piano); Gilles Dumoulin, Gerard Lecointe, Henri-Charles Caget, Sylvie Aubelle, Raphael Aggery (vibraphone, marimba, bass marimba, glockenspiel, bowls, cymbals, tambourine, tamtam, timpani, tom tom, triangle, wood block, gong, Chinese gong, chimes); Shayna Dunkelman (marimba, tom tom, gong); Wang Wei (drum); Tao Chen, Chen Tao (dizi); Zhao Yang-qin (yang-chin).
Recording information: Boulder, CO; Forbidden City Concert Hall, Beijing, China; Herbst Theatre, San Francisco, CA; Mills College, Oakland, CA; New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, Boston, MA.
Editor: Stephen Drury.
Photographer: Guido Ponzini.
Composer Wu Fei has written orchestral and choral works as well as pieces for chamber ensembles, film, and dance performance. Fei's YUAN, released on John Zorn's Tzadik label, includes works for various ensembles performing variously on percussion, piano, traditional Chinese instruments, and guzheng (a specialty of Fei's). This challenging yet always lyrical and intriguing set features, among others, Stephen Drury on piano and Chen Tao on the dizi.