{"id":21845,"date":"2020-09-03T01:53:30","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T01:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/?post_type=product&#038;p=21845"},"modified":"2026-02-19T18:11:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:11:45","slug":"pro00374","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/product\/pro00374\/","title":{"rendered":"Forrest Fang: The Book of Wanderers (CD)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 307px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3038562851\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless><a href=https:\/\/projektrecords.bandcamp.com\/album\/forrest-fang-the-book-of-wanderers>The Book of Wanderers <\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"hideme\">\n1. An Atom on a Long Chain 09:09<br \/>\n2. Song of the Wanderer 05:54<br \/>\n3. Tale of the Egret 08:05<br \/>\n4. Astir 04:00<br \/>\n5. Atlantis 12:44<br \/>\n6. Elephant Steps 06:24<br \/>\n7. Chasing Stars 05:47<br \/>\n8. From the Hollows 08:28<br \/>\n9.Water Pod 04:22<br \/>\n10. Kepler&#8217;s Return 06:20\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 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\/en\/forrest-fang-the-book-of-wanderers-cd-digipack-2020-ltd-300-voe-04-09\" target=\"BLANK\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CD<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><BR><\/p>\n<h3><font color=\"red\">Limited edition of 300<\/font><\/h3>\n<h3>Avant Music News Pick of the Week, August 30, 2020<\/h3>\n<p><B>The Book of Wanderers<\/B>, from Projekt ambient musician Forrest Fang, creates an auditory escape, an aspiration towards venturing outwards, imagining better times ahead. Direct and emotional, the collection of electronic tone poems was recorded primarily during the spring and summer 2020 coronavirus lockdown. \u201cWhile confined to my home in the Bay Area,\u201d says Fang, \u201cI felt the need to create pieces that provided virtual spaces for my mind to wander. These idealized spaces became my inner world during this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><BR>The album begins with \u201cAn Atom on a Long Chain,\u201d an ambitious and lively piece featuring echoing piano, hypnotic string sounds, and interlocking rhythms derived partly from fractals. The mood shifts with the atmospheric \u201cSong of the Wanderer,\u201d in which a gamelan gong and an electric piano share space with misty synthesized and processed textures. The sustained mood continues with \u201cTale of the Egret,\u201d which features special guest artist Robert Rich who plays flutes over a relaxed backdrop of treated percussive sounds and a celestial zither.<\/p>\n<p><BR>\u201cAstir,\u201d a quiet interlude for piano and strings, provides a transition to \u201cAtlantis,\u201d an extended soundscape of shimmering strings, piano, Mellotron, and gamelan that perhaps best embodies the album\u2019s theme of utopian worlds. An intriguing Fourth World-style track, \u201cElephant Steps,\u201d follows, combining its tribal rhythms with hammered strings and sustained choral voices.<\/p>\n<p><BR>A shift into the spatial realm of pure electronic music occurs on the next track, \u201cChasing Stars.\u201d The expansive sound fields and distant reverberations of this piece evoke the beauty of stargazing. We then return to terra firma on \u201cFrom the Hollows,\u201d a textural piece Fang had originally intended as a belated birthday tribute to ambient musician Brian Eno.<\/p>\n<p><BR>Another short interlude, \u201cWater Pod,\u201d provides a playful transition into <B>The Book of Wanderers<\/B>\u2019 final piece, \u201cKepler\u2019s Return,\u201d in which otherworldly electronic and choral drones converge into a harmonious universe suggested in 17th-Century astronomer Johannes Kepler\u2019s \u201cmusic of the spheres.\u201d <\/p>\n<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%2Fpro00374%2F&t=Forrest+Fang%3A+The+Book+of+Wanderers+%28CD%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%2Fpro00374%2F&text=Forrest+Fang%3A+The+Book+of+Wanderers+%28CD%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%2Fpro00374%2F&media=https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/PRO00374.jpg&description=+%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%2Fpro00374%2F&title=Forrest+Fang%3A+The+Book+of+Wanderers+%28CD%29\" class=\"socials-small google-small\"  target=\"_blank\" title=\"Google\" >google<\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=https:\/\/projektrecords.bandcamp.com\/album\/forrest-fang-the-book-of-wanderers TARGET=BLANK><IMG SRC=\/store\/assets\/images\/Button-Bandcamp.png width=129><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[54,50,49,570],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-21845","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-all","product_cat-ambient","product_cat-electronic","product_cat-forrest-fang","pa_artist-forrest-fang","pa_format-cd-in-4-panel-digipak","pa_label-projekt","pa_release-year-790","first","instock","sale","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple","border"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/21845","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=21845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=21845"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=21845"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=21845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}