And dinner beforehand consisting of Vegetable hotpot, potato cake, and fried Yak meat. Yak was very tasty. A little chewy, but pretty good. Flavour comparable to kidney maybe - not so strong though. After feasting we headed into the old town to go to a concert of ancient Naxi music. They hold the show every night and half the musicians are as a
ncient nearly
as the music. Five of them
in their mid 80s. The man who put
the orchestra together in the 80s gave an interesting talk regarding the philosophy behind putting it together. It is apparently a fairly pure and untouched artform - rare in
China, which he remarked on. To western ears familiar elements
of Chine
se folk music a
re
there, but the exe
cution is probably more
raw than we might be used to hearing. Lots of clang, bang, plonk
, often sounding quite arythmical and some
very high singing by the Women. Very
interesting music to listen to. Also included a Naxi operatic number - a more comedic one. A great show.
China04_Lijiang02_02_music from tgoodwin on Vimeo.
2 comments:
Perhaps you need to introduce a bit of clang bang plonk to widen your band's repetoire, Tere.
Yes indeed, and I'll grow a long beard and wear a robe like Ming the merciless who was glaring disapprovingly at the audience the whole time.
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