Li Jianhongは、中国大陸の即興音楽や実験音楽のシーン最初期より活動してきた音楽家です。同時に、キュレーターとしても実験音楽のイベントやフェスティバルを数多く手がけてきました。本作の『Lonely Lodger』では、環境音と即興演奏による音の融合を目指した「Environmental Improvisation」という録音/演奏手法に基づいて、自身が雲南省の麗江に滞在してレコーディングした音素材を使い制作したものです。
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.
