逐云追梦 Going After Clouds and Dreams, by Lao Dan

逐云追梦 Going After Clouds and Dreams

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1.	吹云／Blowing Clouds 06:29	buy track
2.	废梦／Wasted Dreams 05:47	buy track
3.	镜／Mirror 06:26	buy track
4.	悬空定身／Hovering in the Air 05:34	buy track
5.	火草／Fireweed 05:21	buy track
6.	亭／Pavilion 04:54	buy track
7.	丁卯日一曲／Tune on the Fourth Day of Chinese Sexagenary Cycle 03:17	buy track
8.	庚午日一曲／Tune on the Seventh Day of Chinese Sexagenary Cycle 05:57	buy track
9.	仙葩／Immortals’ Flowers 04:42	buy track

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An Avant-Garde Saxophone Player’s Chinese Bamboo Flute Album.

Lao Dan started learning saxophone at the age of 8 and switched to Chinese bamboo flute when he was 13. He served as the principal flute player of Youth Chinese Orchestra of Shenyang Conservatory of Music (SYCM) through out his college years. After college, Lao Dan started exploring different genres of music including rock, jazz, world music and particularly, avant-garde, experimental and free improvisation. In 2013, he formed Red Scarf trio 红领巾 with guitarist Li Xing and drummer Deng Boyu. The band released their self-titled debut album under the label Bad Head owned by Modern Sky in 2016. Along with this album Going After Clouds and Dreams, Red Scarf’s second album They Know That We Know They Are Lying will be released by Bad Head in May of 2018. Lao Dan also released his first saxophone solo cassette album Functioning Anomie under French label WV Sorcerer Productions in March 2018.

Going After Clouds and Dreams is Lao Dan’s first bamboo flute solo album. It is the result of two recording sessions in April 2017 in his home town Dandong, a city near the border with North Korea. Most tracks were written between late 2016 and early 2017. Tune on the Fourth Day of Chinese Sexagenary Cycle and Tune on the Seventh Day of Chinese Sexagenary Cycle were impromptus.

Lao Dan is a monster improviser of saxophone. Informed by many western masters, he has found a fresh and unrestrained sound of his own. Unlike his fierce saxophone, his bamboo flute skills escaped the shackles of historical schools and institutional training and internalized the poetic realm of ancient China. Three types of dizi:C qudi, Bb qudi and G diyindi were used in this album. Lao Dan created a subtle and meditational atmosphere by removing the dimo, a special membrane used on Chinese bamboo flutes to produce a brighter, louder and sweeter sound. Since it was recorded in a bomb shelter built in the time of Korean War, this album needed very little mastering. The location provided a unique sound field with the right reverberation and a steady stream of illusions.

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released July 30, 2018

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Lao Dan 老丹 Hangzhou, China

Lao Dan from China，China Flute，Saxophone，free improvisation，Chinese New Folk music，Modern pioneer music.

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