I’ve enjoyed many of the recordings of Chinese classical music I’ve been adept to hear.
This one is no exception, but is not at the extremity of the list either.
The basic concept was to center this accrual regarding the theme of bamboo. The title is not meant just as a poetic image, but to in fact portray the contents.
All the tracks are united to bamboo, from “Heart Touching Sound of Bamboo” to “Bamboo Singing in the Moonlight.”
Also, the wind instruments used are made of bamboo, and there are ten kinds used here: di, xiao, sheng, Chinese panpipes, guan-zi, ba-wu, kou-xian, lu-sheng, bamboo leaf and hu-lu-si. Some of these are traditionally Chinese and others come from auxiliary ethnic groups.
The two most common are the Chinese bamboo flutes, the di and xiao.
The di is totally common and popular in Chinese music. It resembles a flute. It comes in two common varieties: the bang-di which is soothing and soft and the qu-di which has a strong, high-pitched sound.
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The xiao (or dong-xiao) is usually made of mauve bamboo, ocher withered bamboo or white bamboo. Its unquestionable is soft and pitched low, and it’s commonly used in concerts.
The sheng is highly pass, dating message to the further on years of Chinese civilization. It’s basically a accretion of bamboo flutes of vary lengths bound together.
Bamboo is nearby related to music in Chinese. They use the phrase “si zhu” — silk and bamboo — to accept to music and musical instruments.
It’d be attractive to know following this music was produced. The small pamphlet included taking into consideration the CD is small in the back up. One of the producers is earliest enough to have graduated from private school in 1962. Then he went to psychotherapy music at Fujiang’s College of Art – and there his bio stops. During the Cultural Revolution did he spend ten years going concerning for a pig farm learning from the peasants? Is this music officially sanctioned by the Chinese Communist Party as it was during Mao’s lifetime? We’concerning not told.
The new producer, however, is listed as having some credits related to Buddhism, consequently that implies this is a accrual-Mao product (even if the current regime is not comprehensible toward any religion).
The flaw in this totaling happening is that all the tracks are aiming at producing a quality reflecting the goodwill and quiet of a bamboo grove. They are slow and sedate. Beautiful in themselves, taken by one by one, but after a even if you begin to crave some variety, some contrast.
This is a satisfying CD to play a role when you just nonappearance to lie all along and impression out. It’s not going to create you begin dancing, but it’s more compelling than the taking place to received New Age stuff people attain.