Unheard Music: Black Pearls (Wa Tribe Singers, Liu Jian)
Bumping this back up to the top in Jan. 2009 for Chinese New Year's. It's that good.
After a long search for available music from remote tribes in South China such as the Wa Tribe and Miao People, I was rewarded with the discovery of a CD available from Wind Records in Taiwan.
BLACK PEARLS Product ID：TCD-5232
- Producer：LIU Jian & WANG Xu-dong
- Composer：LIU Jian
- Performers：CHOU Ke-chi & HU Zhi-ping
- Vocal Leaders：CHIANG Deng & LIU Jian
Other Peoples call them the Eastern Indians, but they call themselves Black Pearls. Where the south of China, Burma and Thailand meet, there is this legendary living Wa Tribe that is physically strong, emotionally pure and peculiarly talented in music.
Touched by the myth, Liu Jian blends Wa music with modern ideas to create a mystical, gallant and innovative masterpiece. Tribal vocals, Chinese male and female vocals, various ethnic, Chinese and western instruments all interweave to bring forth a grandeur harmony, a magical charm, and a loving connection of various peoples of the world.
