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Journey To The West (CD)

By: Monkey (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Journey To The West (CD) Album By Monkey (Artist)
1   Monkey's World
2   Monkey Travels
3   Into the Eastern Sea
4   Living Sea, The
5   Dragon King, The
6   Iron Rod
7   Out of the Eastern Sea
8   Heavenly Peach Banquet
9   Battle In Heaven
10   Omi Tofu
11   Whisper
12   Tripitaka's Curse
13   Sandy the River Demon
14   Confessions of a Pig
15   March of the Volunteers
16   Monk's Song
17   I Love Buddha
18   March of the Iron Army
19   Pigsy In Space
20   Monkey Bee
21   Disappearing Volcano
22   Disappearing Volcano
 

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Review

The Wire (p.60) - "Albarn's elaborate score is brought into being by an orchestra and choir of both British and Chinese musicians, recorded in London and Beijing and produced to a formidably high shine."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.110) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Albarn's mastery of the largely non-harmonic Chinese instrumentation -- lots of delicately plucked pipas and gu-zhengs, gongs, cymbals and cellos -- seems impressively intuitive....File under 'brilliantly out-there'."

Title Note

Composer: Damon Albarn.

Lyricist: Chen Shi-Zheng.

Personnel: Zhou Haolu, Zhang Wei, Zeng Li, Xu Xiouxia, Xu Keija, Wang Yingsi, UK Choir, Tang Ling, Miao Village, Jia Ruhan, He Zijun, Gisele Edwards, Fei Yang, Fan Zhuqing, Fan Tongzhou, Dou Wing, Beijing Tianyuan Chorus Choir, Wang Wei (vocals); Xie Qing, Wang Weiping, Cheng Yu (pipa); Oli Langford, Antonia Pagulatos, Kotono Sato, Stella Page (violin); Li Fuhua (erhu); Isabelle Dunn, Wayne Urquhart (cello); Thomas Bloch (harmonica, ondes martenot); Henri Deleger (trumpet); Guillaume Milliere (trombone); Josquin Chuffart (bass trombone); Frederic Marillier (tuba); Mike Smith (piano, keyboards); Hannah Loach (piano); David Coulter (omnichord, synthesizer, Jew's harp, tamtam, hand claps, percussion, musical saw); Rory McFarlane, Al Mobbs (bass instrument); Zeng Zgen, Chuang Cheng-Ying (zhong ruan); Stephen Sedgwick (programming); Xiao Ran, Kate St. John.

Audio Mixer: Jason Cox.

In 2007, Blur/Gorillaz mastermind Damon Albarn took on the ambitious task of writing the music for an operatic adaptation of JOURNEY TO THE WEST, a Chinese novel from the 16th century, combining Chinese motifs with electronica and rock flavoring. This soundtrack to the stage piece is not actually a verbatim recording of the show's music, but rather a reinterpretation based on the original. It's a wild ride, as Chinese choral voices and traditional-sounding melodies share space with floating ambient textures, freaky electro-acoustic dischord, syncopated electronic beats, and contemplative settings that could almost be labeled New Age if not for the overwhelmingly unconventional context into which they've been placed. Trace elements of Gorillaz can be heard here, but JOURNEY TO THE WEST is undoubtedly an outward expansion of Albarn's aesthetic.

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