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Release Date: 26-10-1998
Label: Celestial Harmonies
Catalog Number: 11080-2
Barcode: 13711108026
Musical Style: World
Track Listing:
| Disc 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moon Dance [02:42] | 6 | Journey Down South [03:44] |
| 2 | Autumn Stream in A Desolate Gorge [06:52] | 7 | Reflected Moon [03:54] |
| 3 | Under the Pines [07:59] | 8 | Riding On the Wind [05:39] |
| 4 | In A Sunny Meadow [05:11] | 9 | Autumn in North Sea [04:55] |
| 5 | Temple of Heaven [03:25] | ||
Description:
Paul Horn's China will appeal to a wide ranging audience. Lovers of new age meditative styles, traditional jazz and Eastern melodies will all find something delightful and joyous in this recording. The listener will be charmed not only by Paul Horn's famous silver flute, but also by several traditional Chinese instruments superbly played by David Mingyue Liang. One of these instruments, the ch'in, is a seven stringed bridged zither that has historically been the instrument of philosophers and the literati such as Confucius. The sheng is another unusual instrument heard on this recording and consists of a bowl-shaped wind chamber of wood or metal, with a short blowpipe extended out from the side and seventeen bamboo pipes of varying lengths. According to legend, this pipe arrangement represents the folded wings of the mythical bird, the phoenix. Like the phoenix, Chinese music has survived to rise time and time again from the ashes of a country fraught with political turbulence. Paul Horn thus decided to capture this powerful music on his trip to The People's Republic of China in 1978. Part of the release was recorded in the Temple of Heaven outside the Forbidden City, but Horn soon realized that the new China was outside not inside.' Therefore, he started to perform in the streets of small villages, even playing at the spur of the moment in Canton, at the Peoples' Cultural Park to a crowd of five thousand people.'
Biography:
A classically trained flautist, Paul Horn played jazz with Chico Hamilton, served as a top studio musician in Los Angeles and recorded with his own quintet in the early 1960s. During that time, he won two Grammy® Awards for his Jazz Suite On The Mass Texts. Increasing dissatisfaction with the Hollywood lifestyle led Horn to India on his search for alternatives, where he studied meditation and began to explore other ways of playing his instrument. The success of his intuitive and contemplative improvisations on Inside the Taj Mahal proved that audiences were ready for a new approach and opened the door to a series of recordings inside acoustic and architectural wonders around the world, including Inside the Great Pyramid and Inside the Cathedral. Both Horn's cross–cultural collaborations and his highly refined works for more conventional Western ensembles have garnered much critical acclaim.
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