Blurring Boundaries: Erhu Excursions
Blurring Boundaries: Erhu Excursions
Blurring Boundaries - Erhu Excursions contains Ying's arrangements of traditional, signature pieces for the erhu, her own compositions that are a fusion of both various styles of Chinese music and Western classical, jazz, funk, and Nashville influences, and an arrangement of a classical American jazz tune that is especially beautiful on the erhu. Ms. Yang's virtuosity on the instrument is unmistakable on all of tunes.
Blurring Boundaries: Erhu Excursions
Blurring Boundaries - Erhu Excursions contains Ying's arrangements of traditional, signature pieces for the erhu, her own compositions that are a fusion of both various styles of Chinese music and Western classical, jazz, funk, and Nashville influences, and an arrangement of a classical American jazz tune that is especially beautiful on the erhu. Ms. Yang's virtuosity on the instrument is unmistakable on all of tunes.
Blurring Boundaries: Erhu Excursions
Blurring Boundaries - Erhu Excursions contains Ying's arrangements of traditional, signature pieces for the erhu, her own compositions that are a fusion of both various styles of Chinese music and Western classical, jazz, funk, and Nashville influences, and an arrangement of a classical American jazz tune that is especially beautiful on the erhu. Ms. Yang's virtuosity on the instrument is unmistakable on all of tunes.
About This Album
According to traditional Chinese medical theory, music has healing properties. Indeed, the Chinese character for music is the major part of the ancient Chinese character for medicine. Also, the Chinese character for happiness and music is one and the same!
Initially created for use in a taiji/qigong intervention study at the University of Illinois, Elixir is a music CD for moving and still meditation practices. This CD is unique in that it was composed and performed in entirety by both a master traditional Chinese musician and longtime practitioner of qigong meditation.
Composed around "the five notes" (i.e., the pentatonic scale) and making use of both traditional Chinese instruments and modern synthesizers, Elixir is a contemporary Chinese recording with beautiful melodies that may used as an accompaniment to your moving or still meditation practice or simply enjoyed for the beauty of the music. Some tunes were designed to help lead the practitioner to a state of quietude and peacefulness, while others are simply joyous musical expressions of the ineffable experiences and sensations of moving and still meditation.
Reviews
Steve Sheppard, One World Radio “A really different and exciting release by Yang Ying, music for Moving and Still Meditation is as refreshing as the day is new. . . (track 5 “Circulation” is) a musical masterpiece. . . Yang Ying is clearly not only a talented artist, but a masterful musician who can turn her hand and her skills to even implementing a touch of Jazz, mixed with a delicate platter of blues and a serving of really clever and well worked improvisation. . . (Elixir is) uperbly crafted, extremely well produced and constructed by a musician who really knows her subject matter entirely. At the end of listening to this album I felt refreshed, calm and musically nourished.” Full Review