Lao Dan - Live At Willimantic Records AEC Video the "Gentle Giant" of Country

the "Gentle Giant" of Country music

Together the musicians dedicate themselves to chamber music of the 17th and 18th century whose Old Masters they explore over and over with boundless curiosity

but in the one that we call the here and the now

(BR Klassik)

Lao Dan - Live At Willimantic Records AEC Video the "Gentle Giant" of CountryThis is the American debut release from Lao Dan, China's emerging free player on bamboo flute, suona and alto saxophone. Dan's voice is starkly unique, even among the blurred lines of international Improv Jazz. He's steeped in native traditions yet eagerly obliterates those boundaries with ecstatic intensity and haunting melodies. His dense reedy, drones and jagged melodic shrieks are described as a "Whitmanian yawp," by Marc Medwin in the liner