FM3
Based in Beijing, the experimental electronic group FM3 -- veteran rock musician Christiaan Virant and prolific session keyboardist Zhang Jian -- formed in 1999 and gained some recognition for their development of the Buddha Machine, a small, battery-powered box with a speaker that plays a series of short drones. With a series of recordings behind them -- for labels like Staalplaat, Sublime Frequencies, Mutek, Bip-Hop, and Nascente -- FM3 released Hou Guan Yin for the Lona label in 2006. They've performed at the Louvre, {~the 2004 Shan...[more]
If Brian Eno were Chinese and had come of age in the era of digital sampling rather than the era of analog tape manipulation, it's very likely that his music would have ended up sounding quite a bit like that of FM3, an avant ambient collective based in China that is expanded, for this recording, by guest drummer Dou Wei, guitarist Christiaan Virant, and electronica artist Yan Jun. The music they make on Hou Gan Yin is a gorgeous fusion of traditional Chinese sounds, abstract { [ read more ]
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