Chinese & Japanese Asian instrumental music recommendations

[eldarvanyar]

Happy Christmas and New Year everyone.

I am following a great show on Netflix at the moment called ‘Rise of the Phoenixes ‘ set in China during the Tainsheng empire. I’m totally hooked even after 60 episodes.

Anyway, back to the topic I love soundtracks in films like Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon,* House of flying daggers and Hero and I am struck by the Asian instrumental music in these films as well as Hans Zimmer in The Last Samurai.

Does anyone have any recommendations or artists and where to start looking and purchase?

Thanks

[eldarvanyar]

Sorry Admin if this is in the wrong section, please move if needed. To be honest I do find it a bit hard navigating the forum.
Thanks
Lee

[struth]

its fairly logical, but takes a bit of time to become second nature :) thread moved to musical compositions

[Paulie72]

Yim Hok Man nice music good workout for your system too. Especially Poem of chinese drum.

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[graham67]

Kitaro's Silk Road vol 1 is pretty epic. Its a sonic tour de force and has some incredibly deep bass that will shake your windows with the right speakers �� . You can hear the influence of jarre and vangelis but its uniquely asian, being commissioned for a NHK documentary. One of his earliest, but Kitaro never bettered it IMO.

[Discopants]

Tagging along, I like to sample the whole menu of music now and again.

Not Chinese but Indian, recently heard a few tracks from Trilok Gurtu. Percussionist , but works with others. Has an Indian jazz vibe.

[oldius]

One of the best sources of discovery is Spotify. There is a superb playlist I follow called 'Indian Chill' and it's a mixture of Indian classical, jazz and fusion. I love the music and the sound quality is often startling. The difficulty is often then buying the stuff you hear as it's often not readily available.

[Discopants]

Thanks just had this playlist on for an hour and could happily listen to another 2 hours. Its startling how good spotify sound quality can be. I think its more about the quality of the master recording than the sampling rate of the copy.

[oldius]

The Indian Chill playlist Discopants?

[Discopants]

The Indian Chill playlist Discopants?

Yes mate.

Also stumbled on the yesterday , very relaxed and chilled mix

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=emENMmsTeQw

[oldius]

I shall try that, cheers.

[AJSki2fly]

Anyway, back to the topic I love soundtracks in films like Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon,* House of flying daggers and Hero and I am struck by the Asian instrumental music in these films as well as Hans Zimmer in The Last Samurai.

Does anyone have any recommendations or artists and where to start looking and purchase?

Thanks

I stumbled across this due to a track on the Dali 3 CD (freebie with speakers) and tracked down where it came from. It is a mix of tradition, with orchestra/jazz and modern instrument and is rather beautifully produced by Hans Nielsen. It is a bit pricey but can be heard on TIDAL not sure if its on Spotify

趙聰* ‎– 聆聽中國 = Sound Of China - Zhoa Cong
Label:Modern Records (9) ‎– MCD3101UHQ
Format: CD, Album, UHQCD (Ultimate High Quality CD), Reissue
Country: Hong Kong
Released: 07 Aug 2015
Genre:Folk, World, & Country

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also I have recently listened to

The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra* / Kenneth Jean ‎– Colourful Clouds - The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra Popular Chinese Classics
Label: HK ‎– 6.240090
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: Hong Kong
Released: 1982
Genre: Classical, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Chinese Classical

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Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Varujan Kojian ‎– Everlasting Love (also on Tidal as "Popular Hong TV and Movie Themes")
Label: HK ‎– 6.240171
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: Hong Kong
Released: 1983
Genre: Classical, Stage & Screen
Style: Soundtrack

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on an Indian music front this is rather a goodie

A.R. Rahman, Anand Bakshi ‎– Taal
Genre: Pop, Folk, World, & Country, Stage & Screen
Style: Soundtrack, Bollywood, Hindustani
Year: 1999

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