David Shea - Hsi-yi Chi (1995)

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Artist:
Title: Hsi-yi Chi
Year Of Release: 1995
Label: Tzadik
Genre: avant-garde, Jazz, Classical, Ambient
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 52:49
Total Size: 269 MB
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Tracklist:

1. Temple/Sai Teen/Tai Tsung/Chang'an/Sun Wu Kung (9:07)
2. Three Elements (3:21)
3. Five Fingers (4:32)
4. Fists of Fury/Canton Opera Blues/Enter The Dragon/The Underworld (8:20)
5. The Woodcutter And The Fisherman/the Desert (4:10)
6. Black Wind Cave/The Weapons (3:59)
7. Mara/Five Villages West/Two Sisters Wedding (5:46)
8. Two Elements (1:45)
9. Rouge (1:58)
10. Orchid Tree (4:13)
11. Holy Mountain/Jervana/Pure Land (5:42)

A sprawling, defyingly integrated work fashioned from bits of Chinese, country & western, pop, jazz, rock, and even Celtic musics. Shea's reliance on the sampler is less pronounced here, instead scoring dense, acutely musical numbers ably executed by John Zorn, Marc Ribot, Jim Pugliese, Zeena Parkins, Kato Hideki, and others. Based on a massive 16th-century allegorical text chronicling the journey of the Taoist priest Hsuan-Tsang from India to China. © Sean Cooper /TiVo