| | Edge Of Heaven: Gary Lucas Plays Mid-Century Chinese Pop CD - Import Gary Lucas Discography of CDs
Personnel includes: Gary Lucas (acoustic & electric guitars, National steel guitar, electronics); Celeste Chong, Gisburg (vocals); Ernie Brooks (bass); Jonathan Kane (drums).
Recorded at Sound Dimensions, New York, New York in 2000. Includes liner notes by Gary Lucas.
Personnel: Gary Lucas (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, National guitar, electronics); Gisburg (vocals); Jonathan Kane (drums).
Liner Note Author: Gary Lucas .
Recording information: Sound Dimensions (2000); The Knitting Factory (2000); Tim Powell Studios, New York, NY (2000).
Arranger: Gary Lucas .
Gary Lucas -- charmingly oddball pop songwriter, musical world traveler, utterly hellacious guitarist -- is perhaps at his most hellaciously, charmingly cosmopolitan on this frankly amazing album, which finds him adapting popular Chinese songs that were originally recorded in the 1960s and which he heard and fell in love with during a sojourn in Taiwan in the mid-'70s. His girlfriend at the time had a cassette tape of such local superstars as Chow Hsuan and Bai Kwong, and it was, he says in his liner notes, "like almost no other music I had ever heard before." Twenty-five years later he put together this quirkily gorgeous tribute, which includes jaw-droppingly virtuosic fingerstyle guitar arrangements ("Mad World," "Wall") and song settings using guest vocalists. Among the best of the latter are the limpidly beautiful "Night in Shanghai" (again, note the guitar playing) and the country-flavored "I Wait for Your Return," which is simply a hoot. He's not playing this stuff for laughs, though; his genuine affection for the music comes through loud and clear, and even when he has fun with it he is obviously trying to do so in a way that brings its haunting loveliness to the fore. Very highly recommended. ~ Rick Anderson Edge Of Heaven: Gary Lucas Plays Mid-Century Chinese Pop Music Edge Of Heaven: Gary Lucas Plays Mid-Century Chinese Pop Songs | 1. | Old Dreams |
| 2. | Please Allow Me to Look at You Again |
| 3. | Mad World, The |
| 4. | Wall, The |
| 5. | If I'm Without You |
| 6. | Night in Shanghai |
| 7. | Where Is My Home |
| 8. | Songstress on the Edge of Heaven |
| 9. | I Wait For Your Return |
| 10. | Pretense |
| 11. | Moon in the Street, The |
| 12. | Wall, The - (Instrumental Version) |
| 13. | Please Allow Me to Look at You Again - (instrumental version) |
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