12.Slowly Flowing Water / Dongzhi (Winter Solstice)
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13.Journey / Xiaohan (Minor Cold)
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In the midst of activity, black and white flow back and forth
The four seasons change in turn, alternating through the year
Sound and rhyme come and go in an instant
Coloring the seasons of our lives
Chai Found Music Workshop is a contemporary ¡§silk and bamboo¡¨ music group that is rich in artistry and creativity. Following their Eastern Instrumental Theater series albums Ambush and Journey to the West, in autumn of 2011 they released the artistic genre-crossing production Limitless. Inspired by the 24 yearly solar terms as interpreted in Daoist thinking, it reflects the changing of the seasons through our lives. Centered on all-original silk and bamboo music compositions with arrangements that incorporate modern elements, the music on this album retains the poetic grace of traditional music while at the same time possessing the unrestrained power of contemporary music.
Eastern Instrumental Theater III: Limitless
Following their 2005 album Ambush, which dealt with the Confucian view of human relationships, and their 2009 album Journey to the West, which focused on Buddhist thought, Chai Found Music Workshop once again used the Eastern Instrumental Theater concept to fuse music, theater and dance and in autumn 2011 released their latest work, Limitless. The music theater used the Daoist ¡§observe everything while remaining obscure¡¨ view of how to live in society as a connecting thread to take a new look at life through a modern perspective. At the same time, it used the changing of the seasons to show the Daoist view of nature and as a metaphor for the constant transformation of the environment through time, just as, with the bearing and honor of a knight, we struggle with ego, environment, reality and memory throughout our lives.
As far as musical style is concerned, traditional instruments are used to portray the feelings evoked by the natural revolution of the four seasons through spring winds, summer birds, the autumn moon and winter snow. The group¡¦s leader Huang Zhengming has used his skill with the vocabulary of traditional music to write exquisite, profound and tension-filled melody lines. With the addition of the compositions and arrangements of popular music¡¦s Zhan Xunwei, the music has the appeal of folk operas and ballads that avoid excessive elaboration, and in the ¡§Autumn¡¨ and ¡§Winter¡¨ sections the listener can hear a compositional style that has the rebelliousness of rock and yet is full of passion and purity.
CD 1
Spring
1Icebound, New Greenery /Dahan (Major Cold), Lichun (Start of Spring)
2Childhood Wonder /Yushui (Rainwater)
3Delightful Spring /Jingzhe (Awakening of Insects)
4Wordless Song / Qingming (Clear and Bright)
Summer
5The Warrior¡¦s Song / Lixia (Start of Summer)
6Ray of Light / Xiazhi (Summer Solstice)
CD 2
Autumn
1Ripple / Liqiu (Start of Autumn)
2Dancing Butterfly / Chushu (Limit of Heat), Bailu (White Dew)
3Sailing in a Whirlwind / Qiufen (Autumnal Equinoz), Hanlu (Cold Dew), Shuangjiang (Frost Descent)
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