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Cuneiform: Forrest Fang – The Blind Messenger / Dieses Wochenende für FIVE

The Blind Messenger is the seventh release by Chinese-American composer/multi-instrumentalist Forrest Fang. On The Blind Messenger, Fang performs on violin, electronics and keyboards, percussion and a large number of „ethnic“ instruments: baglama, frame drum, valiha, bendir, kulintang, dumbek and many others.

In 1995, Cuneiform released his most „world-music“ oriented release yet, FolkloreFolklore received widespread airplay and overwhelmingly favorable press in a broad range of prominent music publications, including Alternative Press, Billboard, CMJ, Dirty Linen, Jazziz, NAPRA Review, Rhythm Music Monthly, Schwann Spectrum, The Village Voice, The Wire, and numerous other journals. The Voice noted Fang’s uniqueness: Fang has come up with a compelling Asian new-music sensibility all his own. He’s a multiculturalist’s dream: the Chinese folk-song quotations enveloped by electronic continua; the jazz tinge to the Chinese zither and Thai mouth organ solos; the rock momentum; the Mideastern, African, and Central American percussion. And unlike all those opportunists making hay off the left’s ideology-of-the-month, Fang blends his heterogenous sources into rich, overpowering sonorities…“ Billboard noted that Fang „blends [his] instruments into a mythic traditional music that sounds like it could come from anywhere, possibly any planet.“

released September 16, 1997

Forrest Fang – electronics, strings, incidental winds, percussion, algorithms
with:
Kit Watkins – acoustic piano (11)
Carl Weingarten – dobro and E-bow (13)

Recorded between February 1994 and December 1996 at The Hanger, Richmond, CA, except Kit Watkins recorded at his studio in Linden, VA.

1) Click this album link: https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-blind-messenger
2) Click „Buy Digital Album“
3) Type „10“ into the Name your price field (The discount comes next! 😉 ).
4) Type the word „FIVE“ into the Discount code field.
5) Click „apply“
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