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VDE 1432CD
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Mrs Tsar Teh-yun (1905-2007) was not only a poet and calligrapher, but a fervent musician and eminent teacher. She devoted much of her long life to teaching the qin, the antique seven stringed zither, at a time when the heritage of the ancient culture was threatened with extinction in China. This refined, demanding music, seen by the literati as a path to self-awareness, has here been recorded by her pupils in the very place where it was taught, the Yinyin Study, "The room of the unfathomable virtue of the qin." Historical recordings made between 1956 and 1989. Notes by Georges Goormaghtigh. Double-CD with digipack and 56-page booklet.
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VDE 1214CD
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Sou Si-tai, whose playing style is pure and serene, started out by learning to play the end-blown xiao flute and the side-blown di flute with Wang Quan. In the early 1980s, he started learning the qin with Mrs Tsar The-yun, master of the Fanchuan school, disciple of Shen Caonong, an especially gifted and highly talented musician who was initiated into the arts of poetry and calligraphy at an exceptionally young age. Sou Si-tai is also a qin maker. He teaches and gives concerts in many places in the world. 2006 recordings made by Renaud Millet-Lacombe. Notes by Georges Goormaghtigh. Includes 24-page booklet.
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VDE 1562CD
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Les Lames du Vent is a marimba-saxophone duet created in 2013 by Aïda Diop and Joël Musy, one trained in classical percussion, and the other a jazz musician. Dejeuner sur l'herbe is a repertoire on the border of genres, between covers, arrangements and original compositions; Les Lames du Vent seeks the marriage of sounds, the balance of colors, the accuracy of the subject, the connivance and the expression. Both musicians studied at classical and jazz schools of music, and play world-jazz original music with a beautiful sound (marimba and saxophones). Includes covers of Kai Stengaard's "Rain Forest" and Eden Ahbez's "Nature Boy".
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VDE 1501CD
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Ambient/traditional flute music from Japanese shakuhachi Master, Teruhisa Fukuda. The shakuhachi is an end-blown bamboo flute with one dorsal and four frontal holes and a beveled notch as mouthpiece. There are two elements in the name of the instrument: shaku refers to an ancient measurement which is the equivalent of 30,3 cm; hachi means eight. Originally, shakuhachi thus refers to a flute that measures 1,8 shaku, that is, 54,5 cm. For this release, Master Fukuda chose a series of seven pieces from a repertoire dating back to the seventeenth century. These were originally performed by monks belonging to the Fuke sect of Zen Buddhism, who viewed their instrument as means for meditation. The seven pieces are destined to be played solo, in the spirit of Zen. Teruhisa Fukuda (b. 1949) is an eminent artist who has explored a vast range of musical techniques from, both, traditional and contemporary music.
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