Chinese free-improv guitarist, Li Jianhong plays electric guitar & electronically processes sound recorded with ambient sounds near Lijiang, in Southwest China’s Yunnan Province. Li Jianhong marks this kind of recording approach as “environmental improvisation.” This album comprises the memories and emotions experienced at the artist-in-residence program Lijiang Studio, in 2013.
CD1
1. THAT CLOUD LOOKS LIKE A BADGER
2. DISAPPEARED LANDSCAPE
3. AN AFTERNOON OF NO IMPORTANCE
4. THE THOUGHT-PROVOKING CLOUDS
5. THE WIND COMES AGAIN, AFTERNOON OF JULY 9TH
6. BACKYARD
CD2
1. LONELY LODGER
2. DUSK AT JIXIANG VILLAGE
3. A DISAPPEARED LANDSCAPE(2)
4. THINKING OF THE MUSHROOMS ON MUYEZHU HILL
5. LAMPLIGHT
6. THE AFTERNOON OF THE SONG KING
Li Jianhong is a Chinese free-improv guitarist and a leading figure in mainland China's free improvisation music scene. In the late 1990s Li Jianhong founded one of China's earliest experimental/noise/avant-garde music labels, 2pi Records. Since then, he has curated a number of performances and produced various festivals. Over the years, Li Jianhong has dipped his feet in different genres, never resting on his laurels as an extreme purveyor of guitar drones. Li Jianhong has been engaged in new directions under the name of "environmental improvisation,”exploring the relationships between environments and improvisational performance.
