Considering the relative success of my previous post about the music of of ancient China and Guqin, here’s another sample of these guy’s art.
I hope you’ll like it.
Chang’an Again
Karavansara
East of Constantinople, West of Shanghai
Karavansara
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30 April 2020 at 03:59
I really admire their sense for choreography, some of the chords reminded me of Celtic music — conjecturing about the geography too, with China and Celtic culture at opposite sides of Eurasia. This one reminded me of Loreena McKennitt’s “Mummers’ Dance.”
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30 April 2020 at 04:36
I love McKennitt!
And a lot of traditional music uses pentatonic scales, and so yes, Chinese music sounds a lot like Celtic music.
You can improvise a little Sino-Celt jazz music by playing only the black keys on your piano.
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1 May 2020 at 03:06
Celtic mythology, as you know better than I, is rooted in magical mysteries — so much has not survived the ages — that are reimagined in works of fantasy.
I had not known about that black-key improviso, something I will try out. 🙂
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1 May 2020 at 08:11
I was once a very bad keyboard player, for about fifteen minutes in a band called False Intelligence. Playing on the black keys was more or less all I could do 😀
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