Ting Hia Fen

Madam Hui Fen Min is regarded as the most esteemed master of Erhu artistry in China. Over the years, Hui Fen Min has made many recordings for quite a few labels in China. In 2001, FIM had the privilege of producing her masterful album - River Of Sorrow. It has enjoyed numerous accolades and awards worldwide and is also one of the most successful and reputed titles hitherto in the FIM catalog. The pieces selected emerged as beautifully poetic and very much a reflection of Madam Min's supreme artistry, especially the theme piece, "The Gossamer Song". This piece is a palatial dance portraying the old myth of the love between a hero and the Moon’s Fairy. The celestial melody brings about a truly heavenly sensation to the listener.

Performed by the very best Chinese virtuoso players on some immortal Chinese pieces, with stunning sound quality, this recording originally was awarded The Best of the Best for the Year 2002, apart from many accolades received worldwide. Released by the well known audiophile label know as First Impression Music it is a stunning reproduction of the sound quality that is true to the original recording.

Performed by the very best Chinese virtuoso players on some immortal Chinese pieces, with stunning sound quality, this recording originally was awarded The Best of the Best for the Year 2002, apart from many accolades received worldwide. Released by the well known audiophile label know as First Impression Music it is a stunning reproduction of the sound quality that is true to the original recording.

Ting is an instrument providing 28 different percussive sounds originating from everyday t(h)ings laying around at home - such as silverware, a sofa, toy drum or a pair of car keys. Each sound is carefully multi-sampled and processed with the common goal to be musically playable. Ting is intended to be a creative tool and a substitute for ordinary drum and percussion instruments. Altogether ~1500 individual samples are used to make this instrument.

Ting is an instrument providing 28 different percussive sounds originating from everyday t(h)ings laying around at home - such as silverware, a sofa, toy drum or a pair of car keys. Each sound is carefully multi-sampled and processed with the common goal to be musically playable. Ting is intended to be a creative tool and a substitute for ordinary drum and percussion instruments. Altogether ~1500 individual samples are used to make this instrument.

On ROOT, classical saxophonist and music theorist Jessica Dodge-Overstreet harnesses the ethereal, almost-vocal timbre of the soprano saxophone. Accompanied only by pianist Wan-Ting Yu, Dodge-Overstreet performs music written by a culturally-diverse cast of female composers including Ika Peyron, Germaine Tailleferre, Dora Pejačević, and Teresa Milanollo. From the technically demanding Sonate Slave, with its stratospheric leaps high into the instrument’s uppermost register, to the playful Variations Humouristiques sur l’air de Marlborough for violin and piano which sets the popular folk tune Bear Went Over the Mountain, Dodge-Overstreet brings this versatile and too-often overlooked instrument into the limelight.

Polar Sequences is a collaboration disc between Robert Bird and Geir Jenssen. Bird is best known as The Higher Intelligence Agency but on this disc, he is known as Hia. Jenssen creates music under the name Biosphere. This was released on the Beyond label.