{"id":19958,"date":"2019-12-05T22:24:05","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T22:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/?post_type=product&#038;p=19958"},"modified":"2025-01-30T21:59:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T21:59:41","slug":"pro00366","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/product\/pro00366\/","title":{"rendered":"Forrest Fang: Ancient Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 307px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=4144361781\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless><a href=https:\/\/projektrecords.bandcamp.com\/album\/ancient-machines>Forrest Fang: Ancient Machines<\/a><\/iframe>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"hideme\">\n1 \tAncient Machines<br \/>\n2\tThe Celestial Diver (I. Winds of Betelgeuse)<br \/>\n3\tThe Celestial Diver (II. Shooting Star)<br \/>\n4\tThe Celestial Diver (III. Traceries)<br \/>\n5\tIn Air, It Seems<br \/>\n6\tFirefly Run<br \/>\n7\tSmoke Rings<br \/>\n8\tA Recursive Tale<br \/>\n9\tThe Other Earth<br \/>\n10\tZone One<br \/>\n11\tNight Swans\n<\/div>\n<table width=\u201c400\" bgcolor=\"dacdcd\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">Purchase in Europe for fast, inexpensive shipping:<br \/>\n <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/Projekt-Europe-1.png\" width=350><br \/>\nInformation in English <a href=\"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/projekt-europe-webstore\/\">here<\/a>. Click to order <a href=\"https:\/\/deejaydead.de\/de\/forrest-fang-ancient-machines-cd-digipack-2019-ltd-300-voe-06-12\" target=\"BLANK\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CD<\/a>.\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The ambient music of <strong>Ancient Machines<\/strong> \u2014 the eighteenth album from veteran Bay Area electronic musician and multi-instrumentalist Forrest Fang \u2014 embraces an arc of mysteriously complex moods and emotions. Fang\u2019s work reflects both his Western influences as a classical violinist and his Eastern influences as a player of Javanese gamelan and other Asian instruments. The pieces are imaginary narratives that gradually reveal themselves, incorporating the sounds of both electronic and acoustic instruments.  <\/p>\n<p><BR>On his 2019 Projekt release, Fang found inspiration reflecting on one of his early influences \u2014 minimalist classical composers. \u201cDuring the early 80s,\u201d notes Fang, \u201cI was fascinated with the trance-like effect of pieces like Philip Glass\u2019 <strong>Einstein on the Beach<\/strong> and Terry Riley\u2019s improvisational <strong>Persian Surgery Dervishes<\/strong>. For this album, I use the repetition of minimalism as a point of departure. However, what follows in the pieces is a hybrid ambient style that invites interaction between Western and non-Western instruments that are not ordinarily used together in a way that I hope conveys my love of sound in its many manifestations and permutations.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><BR>When asked, Fang purposely leaves the \u201cancient machines\u201d referenced in the title open to the listener\u2019s interpretation. However, he may well be referring to the internal \u201cmachines\u201d of all sentient and nonsentient life on this planet that evolve and mutate as part of the symphony of change.     <\/p>\n<p><BR>The sonic atmospheres on <strong>Ancient Machines<\/strong> are diverse.  The album begins with the title track \u2014 a short exploration of gentle elongated rhythms and floating electronic textures. The energetic minimalist suite, \u201cThe Celestial Diver,\u201d follows with three pieces dedicated to the late Italian minimalist composer, Piero Milesi. The juxtaposition of spacey textures and overlapping polyrhythms in the pieces, including the occasional sounds of a harpsichord, introduce a new dimension to Fang\u2019s stylistic voice.<\/p>\n<p><BR>The album continues with \u201cIn Air, It Seems,\u201d a delicate and pensive piece for piano, violins and quiet background ambiences that provides a calm resting point midway through the album. This is followed by \u201cFirefly Run,\u201d a dreamlike soundscape of luminous figures and vivid movements suggestive of flight, and \u201cSmoke Rings,\u201d a short interlude featuring processed balafon and gamelan that bring the listener back to terra firma.<\/p>\n<p><BR>Next, the piano-based fractal piece, \u201cA Recursive Tale,\u201d provides the transition to the last three pieces forming the closing arc of the album \u2014 \u201cThe Other Earth,\u201d \u201cZone One\u201d and \u201cNight Swans.\u201d \u201cThe Other Earth,\u201d a melancholy and contemplative piece is reminiscent of classic electronic space music but with occasional hints of minimalism at its quiet core. The mood is lifted with \u201cZone One,\u201d which combines a slowly evolving melodic rhythm with shifting orchestral clouds which hint at promises of the future. \u201cNight Swans\u201d closes the album with the quiet sound of an electric piano against an ambient background of electronic night spirits.<br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"color:red;\">This item is out of print, and here for historical reasons.<\/h3>\n<p><P><\/p>\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%2Fpro00366%2F&t=Forrest+Fang%3A+Ancient+Machines\" 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%2Fpro00366%2F&text=Forrest+Fang%3A+Ancient+Machines\" 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%2Fpro00366%2F&media=https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/PRO00366.jpg&description=%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0ALimited+edition+of+300\" 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%2Fpro00366%2F&title=Forrest+Fang%3A+Ancient+Machines\" 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\/ancient-machines TARGET=BLANK><IMG SRC=\/store\/assets\/images\/Button-Bandcamp.png width=129><\/a><\/p>\n<p><BR><\/p>\n<h3><font color=\"red\">Limited edition of 300<\/font><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":19959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[54,50,49,570,102],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-19958","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-all","product_cat-ambient","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-757","first","instock","sale","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple","border"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/19958","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=19958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=19958"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=19958"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=19958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}