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Guo Brothers
Yuan
Genres: Folk, International Music, Jazz, Pop

Track Listings (11) - Disc #1
1. Dancing And Singing In The Village
2. Soldiers Of The Long March
3. Step By Step
4. Fishing By Lamplight
5. Three Kingdoms
6. Evening Song
7. Training Horses On The Mongolian Grasslands
8. Springtime On Parmir Mountains
9. My Second Life
10. One Flower
11. The Dream Of The Red Mansion

CD Details

All Artists: Guo Brothers
Title: Yuan
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Virgin Records Us
Release Date: 6/29/1992
Genres: Folk, International Music, Jazz, Pop
Styles: Traditional Folk, Africa, Far East & Asia
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 077778615422

Synopsis

Amazon.com

Guo Yue is best known in the West for his contributions to the Oscar-winning soundtrack to "The Last Emperor," but the Chinese-born artist is a respected folk musician and composer in his own right. Since coming to London in the '80s, Yue has collaborated with the Chieftans, Peter Gabriel, and other players exploring intercultural music. On this collaboration with his brother Yi and Clannad founder Pol Brennan, Yue takes a pastoral approach that halfway combines elements of Chinese tradition with a meditative New Age vibe. Yue's flute has a soothing, sensual quality, while his compositions echo his eclectic interests, sounding at moments like an Andean pan pipe, Native American, or Irish pennywhistle. --j. poet

CD Reviews

Heartfelt Chinese melodies and beautiful instrumentation

Clayton W. Hibbert | Seattle, WA, USA | 08/19/1999

(4 out of 5 stars)

"While not strictly "traditional," the music of the Guo Brothers remains incontrovertably grounded in Chinese classical style. Yue Guo's array of exotic flutes drive the melodies and draw the listener in, maintaining creative focus even through the more frenetic compositions. Other tracks evoke a peacefulness and concentration that could only come from rural China.Recommended."