Being Taoist Eva Wong

Eva ha rinunciato a tutto per una mela… Per Adamo ed Eva e per i nostri antenati fin dalla notte dei tempi la frutta è stata la base dell’alimentazione. Nella società moderna invece la si elogia a parole ma in realtà si teme faccia ingrassare, causi il diabete o non contenga proteine, ferro e calcio.

A biographical narrative that traces the life of the Chinese mystic Saihung Kwan. The story follows Kwan's training in martial arts, qigong, herbalism, and other traditional Chinese practices, from the time he was a boy living in Taoist monasteries in the 1920s through the horrors of Japan's invasion of China in the 1930s.

The distinctive soundscape of this CD stems from the unique church interior at Løgumkloster in the south of Jutland, Denmark. Beneath the high vaulting, in the cloisters and in the small hidden spaces of the abbey, the flautist Eva Østergaard (b. 1966) has recorded a series of layers of sounds on fl utes of all sizes from piccolo to bass. The music was written specifi cally for Eva, the church and this CD by five Danish composers, all of whom explore the remotest reaches of the instruments and the building.