East Asian Stringed Instruments

continentaldrift — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:11:21 +0000

Although last week’s show was nonexistent due to circumstances beyond our control, we plan to make up for it with a show not from one country, but a whole continent featuring string instruments from that region! Asia is home to a diverse array of musical styles and instruments, and this show features voices such as the Morin Khuur, the Gu Zheng, the Koto, and the Pipa, just to name a few. The playlist was selected carefully to highlight each of the instruments somewhat equally that are unique to Earth’s largest continent. We hope the musical education and journey and enjoyable for you!

Also make sure to check out this edition of Global Shuffle where featured the music of our friends on MySpace.com.

Playlist (song – artist):

1 Morin Khuur Solo: Dungshang Googoo – Various Artists
2 Sad morin Khuur – Mathias Duplessy
3 Hong Yan Shao Shu (Gu Zheng) – Li Jia Xiang
4 The Music Of The Han River (Han Jiang Yun) Zhou Taotao
5 Chinese Koto – Chinese and Japanese Koto Harp and Shakuhachi Flute Music
6 Koto Japan – Chinese and Japanese Koto Harp and Shakuhachi Flute Music
7 Shockikubai (Koto) – Koto Ensemble Of The Ikuta School, Japan
8 Dialogue with the Erhu – Jun Chen
9 Broken Erhu – Osaka-Sunset
10 Moon Reflection In The Er Quan – Wang Guotong
11 Dressing Up – Yang Wei
12 Snow in the Bright Spring – Yang Jing
13 The Moon in the Sky – He Shufeng
14 Happy To See the Billowing Wheat Fields (Xi Kan Mai Tian Qian Ceng Lang) -Wang Guotong
15 Er-Hu Song – Marco Mastrocola
16 Camel Bells Of The Silk Road – Nian-bing Zhang
17 Turkish March – Monsters of Shamisen
18 Kayagûm Sanjo – Choi Moon-Jin & Peter Joon Park
19Tam Nhac Dan Tranh (Dan Tranh Improvisation) – Phong Nguyen Ensemble

Global Shuffle Segment:

Zeki Caglarmisirli Ahmetsenden Sonra – Zeki Caglar Namli

Tender Song – Anzh

Gersheta – Mariola Kacani

Monae Porey – Shabnam Mushtari

DAARE – Bark Biiga

Asian Theme

continentaldrift — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:00:46 +0000

Over last 6 months, we covered very few Asian countries and last week’s show on Korea motivated us to go to our archive and dust off some of our Asian records and play variety of music from Asian countries without a single country as the theme. We started the show with two tracks by Min Xiao-Fen playing the Pipa, one the hardest instruments to master, followed by a few traditional Japanese and Indonesian songs. And we lowered the tempo to “Tibetan Meditation Music” and ended the coverage of Asian music with two beautiful Chinese folk music by two unknown artist that I came across while looking for songs for the show.

Also you might find a Chinatown in Peru interesting! See the pictures here.

Playlist