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Valley Advocate, CD Review >>
The ancient Silk Road, with its legacy of cultural exchange, provides the inspiration for Orchid Ensemble's Road to Kashgar, a masterful blend of traditional Chinese music with Indian, Persian and Ashkenazi influences. The melodies soar, dive, contract and expand, taking the listener on a playful journey. The band is an unlikely trio, composed of Lan Tung, who learned the erhu (a two-stringed fiddle) in Taiwan, Mei Han, trained in China on the zheng (Chinese zither), and Canadian percussionist Jonathan Bernard, who calibrates his marimba and drums to complement the delicate twang of the other instruments. The album is a seamless blend of varied sounds, at times light and quiet like drops of water, at other times upbeat and intense. Catch them at the Elms College Library Theatre in Chicopee on Oct. 16 at 8 p.m. —Amy Littlefield 10/01/09 >> go there
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