08/07/2010

Ancient Future - Asian Fusion (1993)

«Ancient Future was formed in 1978 by guitarist Matthew Montfort, who was interested in combining ancient musical traditions with modern technology. The band's inviting melodies, exotic instruments, and ethnic textures helped popularize of world-music fusion.

In Asian Fusion, Jim Hurley and Matthew Montfort's shared violin-and-guitar-line leads catch hold of a strong melody and bite down hard. But despite Zhao Hui's Chinese gu sheng board zither, Bui Hui Nhut's dan bao Vietnamese one-stringed lute, and assorted ethnic percussion, vernacular instruments don't share equal weight with the band's folk-classical thrust, and the cuts that are carved from indigenous music – "The Dusk Song of the Fisherman" or the lovely Indonesian degung of "Sunda Strait" – tilt somewhat toward the generic. Still, the disc's got plenty of fire, and its loveliness often surprises.» (AMG)


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cruncx said...

Thanks for your great music...
Obrigado pela musica que partilhas...tens me permitido momentos sublimes...
Este album é fantástico!

Um bem aja para ti.

cruncx

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In 1978, Ancient Future is the world's first and longest running musical organization dedicated exclusively to the mission of creating world fusion music. The original members of Ancient Future studied with the master musicians of many world music traditions, from Balinese gamelan. They used their knowledge of world music to create something new and uniquely their own.

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