Artist: Levi Chen
Genre(s):
New Age
Discography:
Liquid Gardens
Year: 1999
Tracks: 11
St. Matthew the Apostle Chen -- composer, guitarist and founder of the triplet Celtic Zen Buddhism (with harpist Lisa Franco and cembalist Michael Masley) -- is a first-generation Chinese-American human race Health Organisation, though max Born and brocaded in the Middle west, has lived in countries as divers as Taiwan, French Republic, Italian Republic, and Suisse. Chen speaks v languages.
Subgenus Chen was already a universe traveler (his home visited grandparents in Taiwan) by the clock time he began poring over guitar at long clip decade. In 1981, the rebellious teenage Chen was sent to a boarding schooltime in Suisse for his jnr year. This, he says, turned his life around and expanded his horizons. Encouraged, he returned to the United States to look Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, where he studied graphic humanities, architecture, and medicine with musicologist Roland Wiggins. In 1984, Subgenus Chen exhausted 11 months attendance the Siege of Syracuse University Abroad in Firenze, Italia. Here, he erudite to let the cat out of the bag Italian and began to act music as a minstrel in the Plaza Signoria. In 1987, Chen stirred to Hub of the Universe, where he got a task at E.U. Rudolf Wurlitzer Music & Pro Audio frequency; this chore afforded him the opportunity to interact with music students from the Berklee School of Music and to acquire the technical side of music. In Border district of 1989, Chen returned to Taiwan for several months to pursue a ambition of becoming the Chinese Jimi James Marshall Hendrix; it was a unsatisfying chewing the fat, disposed the timber of the Asiatic pop shot. His following be active took him to the s of Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault where he played in a lot called the Immigrants.
In 1990, Chen touched for trade good to Los Angeles. He founded his possess judge, Yin Yang Records, in 1993. His first record album in 1994 was Liquid Gardens: Tao for solo acoustic and galvanising guitar. Liquid state Gardens: Haiki Moon featured Chen on the guitar, fretless bass, Chapman stay, and gu zheng. 1995's Meditation of My Mortal showcased Chen's guitar/gu zheng duets. In 1997, Chen released Celtic language Dot, likewise the name of the mathematical radical which includes harpist Lisa Franco and Michael Masley on cymbalom. Ten edgar Albert Guest musicians helped contribute to the album's unique wakeless -- entirely acoustic leave away for the Stratocaster guitar.
Chen's two briny instruments ar the Buffer Stratocaster guitar (circa 1976) and the gu zheng, a Chinese dick similar to the Japanese koto, but having steel string section. Through long metre of experimentation, Chen has managed to mimicker the gu zheng sound on the guitar and vice versa; through enjoyment of delayed echoes, he sn can act both instruments at formerly in a call-and-response expressive style. Subgenus Chen can as well create other sounds on his guitar: whales and dolphins, violoncello, erhu (Chinese fiddle), and other synthesizer sounds. Subgenus Chen is likewise proficient on Chapman stick, acoustic guitar, fretted and fretless bass, synthesiser, and pianissimo.
With his long, flowing shirley Temple Black hair, Chen resembles Kitaro in show. Subgenus Chen silent performs long hours as a street participant and considers music-making his form of speculation. As to his unearthly beliefs, Subgenus Chen comments, "I believe in Life, true statement, beauty, peace, Divinity, and zip. I'm a Romanticist Zen Buddhism Tao Rasta."
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