Eastern Medicine, Western Illness

by Preservation

Eastern Medicine, Western Illness cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 29 May 2020
  • Label: Mon Dieu Music
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 39:40
  • Community rating: 3.57/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Constructed during an extended period living in Hong Kong, the veteran producer built the entirety of this project's instrumentals by strictly sampling local Chinese vinyl records. The highly conceptual result pairs these unique, cinematic loops with an all-star roster of underground emcees spanning the globe.

Genres

Descriptors: sampling, atmospheric, political, conceptual, instrumental, underground, experimental

Tracklist

  1. Dragon Town (2:42)
  2. A Scholar鈥檚 Rock (3:51)
  3. Money In The Wild (3:15)
  4. Rose Royce (2:47)
  5. I-78 / Capillaries (3:35)
  6. Wan Chai (2:39)
  7. North Bridge (1:47)
  8. Lemon Rinds (2:45)
  9. Medicine Drawer (2:34)
  10. Correspondence (2:53)
  11. A Cure For The Common (5:03)
  12. Children Of Never (3:09)
  13. Mouth Of A River (2:35)

Credits

  • Stan Getz - primary artist, tenor saxophone
  • Charles Mingus - bass
  • Nelson Boyd - bass
  • Connie Kay - drums
  • Phil Brown - drums
  • Jimmy Raney - guitar
  • Duke Jordan - piano
  • Horace Silver - piano

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