New Traditions in East Asian Bar Bands is the eighth album by American composer and saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist John Zorn consisting of improvised music from paired instruments and narration in Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese.Tzadik catalogue The pieces are listed individually within Zorn's game pieces and were composed in 1986, 1988 and 1990 respectively.Liner notes for Xu Feng, John Zorn's Game Pieces vol. 1, Tzadik, TZ 7329
Reception Stacia Proefrock of Allmusic stated, "This is one of John Zorn's greatest achievements to date.".Proefrock, S. Allmusic Review accessed February 17, 2012
Track listing "Hu Die" - 25:09 "Hwang Chin-Ee" - 16:41 "Que Tran" - 30:46
All music by John Zorn. Text by Arto Lindsay (Track 1), Myung Mi Kim (Track 2), and Lyn Hejinian (Track 3).
Personnel
On 'Hue Die' Bill Frisell: Guitar Fred Frith: Guitar Zhang Jinglin: Narrator
On 'Hwang Chin-Ee' Joey Baron: Drums Samm Bennett: Drums Jung Hee Shin: Narrator
On 'Que Tran' Anthony Coleman: Keyboards Wayne Horvitz: Keyboards; Anh Tranc: Narrator
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