Manchuria (YIN) by Chinese Electronic Music Project 中华电子音乐协会
The YIN Album: Passive Action
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Despite being the homeland to the army and rulers of China's last dynasty and its strategic location next to Korea, Japan, Russia and Mongolia together with all the cultural influences therein, Dongbei region today is still very much an unknown to non-Chinese people.
Indeed the region has much more recognition internationally as Manchuria; a name that evokes romantic imaginations of a strong, mystical kingdom - like a snowy Shangri-La.
Moreover, even within China, the region can often be regarded as a poor, cultural backwater - indeed the Manchu language which adorns the Forbidden City in Beijing has less than 20 native speakers alive today.
Having spent much of my life in that part of the world, this album wants to draw attention the the rich history, culture, heritage and amazing people from Dongbei China by composing this soundtrack which asks the forbidden question;
"What if the Qing Dynasty was never corrupted and fell, but instead continued on until now into the post-modern world?"
Aaron Duff
About the producer:
There's a place in North Asia where the Manchu, Han, Korean, Japanese, and Mongolian cultures have intersected with each other over many centuries and created a rich, cultural legacy. Known to the west as Manchuria, this is also the adopted homeland of Aaron Duff, DJ, and producer of the Chinese Electronic Music Project who is always crossing over between the cultures, languages, and philosophies of the Manchurian peninsula and the Western world.
The same is true for Aaron's attitude to music. Having been signed to a number of well-known underground electronica and breakbeat labels, Aaron has more recently pioneered new music forms using classical, wooden instruments such as the erhu and guzheng, fusing together their incomparable sounds with the rainbow lights, beeps, and beats of synthesizers and drum machines to create future bass and beats with a traditional Asian flair
Tracklist
Credits
'Flags & Drums' 'Memories of the Northern Capital'
Erhu, David Dai
Guzheng, Kangkang Huang
'Zhonghua Glow'
Co-written with Valentine Morgen aka 'Acidova'
Album image is modified from Canton of Chinese dragon from the Imperial Chinese Navy Fleet.by Sodacan
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chinese_Dragon_Canton.svg
License
All rights reserved.
An ambitious adventurer of electronic beats and traditional Asian instrumentation, Aaron Duff 杜仁 lives every day somewhere between the Western and Chinese worlds.
As the Chinese Electronic Music Project, Aaron's inspired by his family heritage that reaches to HK, Singapore, Australia and more recently the China / North Korean border to create music this world has never heard, or imagined before.