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Old 04-14-2015, 09:59 PM   #28994 (permalink)
Janszoon
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Originally Posted by SkyyeAsgrim View Post
And thanks Janszoon, do you know of any really good groups I could look into? I really enjoy the flute and strings combination, you know, the hauntingly beautiful, more mellow style of traditional Chinese and Japanese music.
As someone who doesn't understand Chinese I've had kind of a hard time deciphering whether things I like are single artists or if they're compilations, but I can tell you at least one album that I really like which I believe fits into the "silk and bamboo" genre of music that it seems like you're talking about:

Shànghǎi Mínzú Yuètuán (Shanghai traditional ensemble)—Jiangnan Sizhu (Moon and Lanterns)

I also have this two disc album that's labeled simply GuZheng—High Mountain Flowing Water (just the name of the instrument and the title of the first track) which I can't seem to find anywhere online anymore. But if you happen to find it, it's pretty good.

I have a few erhu-focused albums too but those don't seem like they're quite what you're looking for.
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