{"id":12414,"date":"2017-03-11T06:36:36","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T06:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/?post_type=product&#038;p=12414"},"modified":"2021-02-27T00:30:18","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T00:30:18","slug":"pro00337","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/product\/pro00337\/","title":{"rendered":"Forrest Fang: Following the ether sun (limited edition CD)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" style=\"position: relative; display: block; width: 200px; height: 300px;\" src=\"http:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/v=2\/album=1238419175\/layout=http_3A_2F_2Fwww.projekt.com_2Fstore_2Fassets_2Fbandcamp_5Flayout.txt\/bgcol=FFFFFF\/linkcol=0687f5\/transparent=true\/\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/projektrecords.bandcamp.com\/album\/following-the-ether-sun\">Following The Ether Sun by Forrest Fang<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"hideme\">\n1 On the Edge of a Moment<br \/>\n2 Midnight Rain<br \/>\n3 Chiaroscuro<br \/>\n4 The Last Technicolor Dream<br \/>\n5 Hinterlands<br \/>\n6 Receding Pool<br \/>\n7 A River In Retrograde<br \/>\n8 Left of the Sky\n<\/div>\n<h2> <font color=red>Limited edition of 300.<\/font><\/h2>\n<h3>\u201cIn order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.\u201d &#8211; Sir Francis Bacon<\/h3>\n<p>Synthesist\/multi-instrumentalist Forrest Fang\u2019s mesmerizing and emotive electronic-ambience glides upon hypnotizing impressionistic floating formations. Spacemusic, world music and deep atmospheric zones combine and organically dissipate into a flow of drifting vapor trails. With a rich range of unconventional acoustic instruments, the 73-minute album is a fascinatingly filigreed multi-layered work. <\/p>\n<p>Virtuoso Chinese-American sound-shaper Fang moves from the aquatic depths of his previous release, 2016\u2019s <strong>The Sleepwalker\u2019s Ocean<\/strong>, into the open sky of <strong>Following the Ether Sun<\/strong>. The result is a refined hybrid of Western and Eastern influences: a complex imaginary world of mysterious yet engaging melodies, textures, and rhythms.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This release grew out of my work on \u2018Sleepwalker,'&#8221; says Fang.  \u201cI developed several rhythmic ideas that I ultimately shaped into a larger sonic environment filled with ambient and ethnic touches. The sounds are both acoustic and electric, some treated, others not, but with an open-endedness I associate with the continuous sky above. In this space, the \u2018ether sun\u2019 represents a personal ideal or goal that I continuously try to attain but never quite reach. The fun is in following it and trying to harness its energy and warmth, if only for a short time.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>Besides synthesizer, violin, and an array of hand-based percussion instruments, Fang also plays uncommon stringed instruments such as the dan bau (Vietnamese one-stringed monochord), cumbus (Turkish lute), Japanese palm harp and kora (African lyre).<\/p>\n<p>Forrest Fang has conjured a fantastical auditory realm which unites ever-shifting soundworlds through a distinctive global approach. <\/p>\n<h3 style=\"color:red\">This item is out of print, and here for historical reasons.<\/h3>\n<p> <div class=\"socials\"><h2>love it, share it<\/h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.projekt.com%2Fstore%2Fproduct%2Fpro00337%2F&t=Forrest+Fang%3A+Following+the+ether+sun+%28limited+edition+CD%29\" class=\"socials-small facebook-small\"  target=\"_blank\" title=\"Facebook\" >facebook<\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.projekt.com%2Fstore%2Fproduct%2Fpro00337%2F&text=Forrest+Fang%3A+Following+the+ether+sun+%28limited+edition+CD%29\" class=\"socials-small twitter-small\"  target=\"_blank\" title=\"Twitter\" >twitter<\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.projekt.com%2Fstore%2Fproduct%2Fpro00337%2F&media=https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/PRO00337.jpg&description=+%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0A\" class=\"socials-small pinterest-small\"  onclick=\"window.open(this.href); return false;\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Pinterest\" >pinterest<\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.projekt.com%2Fstore%2Fproduct%2Fpro00337%2F&title=Forrest+Fang%3A+Following+the+ether+sun+%28limited+edition+CD%29\" class=\"socials-small google-small\"  target=\"_blank\" title=\"Google\" >google<\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/projektrecords.bandcamp.com\/album\/following-the-ether-sun\" TARGET=BLANK><IMG SRC=\/store\/assets\/images\/Button-Bandcamp.png width=129><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><!-- <a href=\"http:\/\/spottedpeccary.com\/shop\/following-the-ether-sun\/\" TARGET=BLANK><IMG SRC=\/store\/assets\/images\/Button-2496.png ><\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[54,50,135,49,570,102],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-12414","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-all","product_cat-ambient","product_cat-darkambient","product_cat-electronic","product_cat-forrest-fang","product_cat-world-influenced","pa_artist-forrest-fang","pa_format-cd-in-4-panel-digipak","pa_label-projekt","pa_release-year-640","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","product-type-external","border"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/12414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=12414"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=12414"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=12414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}