New Music for Asian Zithers

Music that challenges tradition, creating a new direction and expression for the Korean kayageum, Chinese zheng, Japanese ichigenkin and Japanese nigenkin.

Randy Raine-Reusch: kayageum, zheng, ichigenkin, nigenkin, sho, hun, suling, changgo
Jon Gibson: soprano sax
Stuart Dempster: trombone
Jin Hi Kim: electric kumungo
Barry Truax: Granular Synthesis
William O. Smith: clarinet

• Masterful playing of six Asian zithers.Wholenote
• Truly wonderful...grabs you and pulls you in! Musicworks
• Not merely listening to sound, but listening to listening! Far Eastern Audio Review

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1. A Sleeping Rain - solo kayageum
2. White Room, Three Shadows - dan bau, trombone & clarinet
3. Forgotten Morning - solo kayageum
4. Unprepared - prepared kayageum
5. Doorway to the Other - kayageum & soprano sax
6. Bamboo Forest ..a Stone.. Wind Bells - nigenkin & granular synthesis
7. Bamboo, Silk & Stone - zheng, hun, suling gambu & granular synthesis
8. October Moon - ichigenkin, sho and percussion