Immeasurable Light

by Wu Man

Immeasurable Light cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1 January 2010
  • Label: Traditional Crossroads
  • Country: China
  • Length: 47:34
  • Community rating: 3.85/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Wu Man built 'Immeasurable Light' with ethnomusicologist Rembrandt F. Wolpert from pipa tablature preserved in the Dunhuang Mogao cave manuscripts and Tang dynasty lute music transmitted in Japan, expanding fragments of a few notes into full pieces. She performs every layered pipa part herself, alongside her own singing and percussion, and the Kronos Quartet joins her on the opening track, a Shaanxi shadow puppet theatre song.

Genres

Descriptors: traditional, virtuosic, acoustic, percussive, spirituality

Tracklist

  1. The Round Sun and Cresent Moon In the Sky (2:12)
  2. Night Thoughts (5:40)
  3. Cambodian Free Tune (1:19)
  4. An Immortal Splahes the Ink (2:25)
  5. Wang Zhao Jun (2:04)
  6. Namu Amida (Homage to the Buddha of Immeasurable Light) (4:45)
  7. Tori (2:12)
  8. Mountain Temple Bell at Sunset (3:38)
  9. Leaves Flying in Autumn (4:49)
  10. Auspicious-Clouds Music (5:55)
  11. Misty Rain on the Eastern Mountain (1:05)
  12. The Three Terraces (3:21)
  13. A Spring Flowing Over Stones (4:23)
  14. Luntai and the Waves of Lake Kokonor (3:40)

Credits

  • Kronos Quartet - primary artist, ensemble, arranged by
  • Cynthia Rogers - booklet editor [text edited by]
  • Jacob Garchik - composed by, arranged by
  • John Sherba - cymbal [chinese cymbal], vocals, violin
  • David Harrington - wood block [chinese wood block], gong [chinese gong], vocals, gong [temple gong], wood block
  • Scott Fraser - edited by, mixed by, mastered by, engineer, producer, recorded by
  • Jerry Bezdikian - graphic design
  • Harold G. Hagopian - producer [series]

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