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草乙术 Chinese Medicine

Artist(s)

老丹*

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Released

22 Jun 2020

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Format

Cassette, Album, Limited Edition

Genre(s)

Jazz, Folk, World, & Country

Style

Avant-garde Jazz

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Track List

A1 鹤虱 Crane Lice 12:52

A2 鹅不食草 Goose-no-eat Herb 7:01

B1 淫羊藿 Horny Goat Weed 17:25

Credits

Artwork [Woodcut]-Tiemei*
Calligraphy [Calligraphy By]-Doctor Lin Jiancai
Mixed By-Deng Boyu*
Saxophone, Zither [Zheng]-Lao Dan*

Notes

Recorded in June 2019 (in Hangzhou), this is a solo set in which two instruments – tenor saxophone and Zheng, also known as the Chinese zither – were played successively and simultaneously by hands and feet. The recording was made in one go with no overdub or effect added. Lao Dan never learned to play the Zheng properly before this very first attempt. As a result, he didn’t struggle at all to play it in an awkward way, while with the saxophone he did, as always, try very hard to do that.The cover art, created by Shenzhen-based artist Tiemei, is a portrait of Shennong, the Deity of medicine and agriculture in ancient Chinese mythology. The three tracks in Chinese Medicine are named after three species of herb each believed to have unique medicinal properties. It is our responsibility to remind you to take them with extra caution. In Chinese medicine, after all, every drug is a thirty-percent poison.