12 Girls Band - Shanghai
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Artist: 12 Girls BandBrand: TWELVE GIRLS BAND
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-06-25
Music Label: Manhattan Records
Soundtracks:
- Glory
- Shining Energy
- Fragile
- Carnival
- Bach Tribute: Concerto for Violin in a Minor (1st MVT)
- My Heart Will Go On [From Titanic]
- Loulan Girl
- Flowers and Juveniles
- Take Five
- High Mountain and Floating Water
- Handel's Music for Royal Fireworks
- Nessun Dorma
- The Great Canyon [Live][*]
- Freedom [Live][*]
Free Music Notes for Shanghai
Free Music Review: Relaxing, amusing and interesting...
Hit: 5 Stars
Since returning from a trip a trip to China, I have become somewhat fascinated with Chinese culture and history. Of course, as a Westerner, my understanding is hopelessly superficial. I have built a small collection of CDs of Far Eastern Music; some sound more traditional than others.
Upon my first listening to this, my first CD of the 12 Girls, I was unimpressed as it seemed like a mushy "new age" treatment, but as I gave it a few more hearings, the CD started to grow on me. It 's actually a fusion of traditional Chinese music, jazz, rock, classical and a bit of new age. The musicians, I guess, are quite phenominal. According to the liner notes, these women are the best in all China.
I found this CD, relaxing, amusing and interesting. I may be looking for more of the 12 Girls.
Believe it or not, if you like Celtic music (i.e. Celtic Women's Band) you may like the 12 Girls from China. As different as the Chinese are from the Irish, it seems that traditional music of Ireland and China have similarities (I guess it stems from the use of the pentatonic scale).
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No Description Available.Genre: World Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
Rating:
Release Date: 5-JUN-2007
12 Girls Band began as a series of auditions held throughout China, seeking thirteen attractive and versatile young female instrumentalists (although only twelve appear onstage at any time). After taking Japan by storm, their debut US release, Eastern Energy (2004), created a sensation, crowning Billboard's World Music chart. Since then, the group has become a firm favorite at PBS and NPR, with several prestigious international concert bookings on the horizon. For the present recording, the ensemble ranges between local folk songs, newly composed tunes and works by Sting ("Fragile"), J.S. Bach (an excerpt from Concerto For Violin in A Minor), G. Puccini ("Nessun Dorma" from Turandot), and James Horner ("My Heart Will Go On," the love theme from Titanic). Arranged by Bob Belden and Liang Jianfeng, who leads the ensemble's backing guitar combo, the overall effect is not unlike an Eastern equivalent of Celtic Woman, minus the vocals but every bit as energetic, polished, and astutely marketed. Musically, the tunes are tightly conceptualized and performed, marred only by overuse of a 4/4 snare backbeat and the fact that certain Chinese instruments, although breathtakingly lovely in a more traditional setting, are not always ideally suited to the material at hand. But even so, it's a charming, graceful and high-spirited enterprise; as good-will ambassadors, these ladies can?t fail to please. --Christina Roden
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