{"id":7364,"date":"2015-03-12T09:11:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T09:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/?post_type=product&#038;p=7364"},"modified":"2024-08-06T17:41:13","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T17:41:13","slug":"pro00312","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/product\/pro00312\/","title":{"rendered":"Forrest Fang: Letters To The Farthest Star (CD)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"320\" height=\"420\" style=\"position: relative; display: block; width: 320px; height: 420px;\" src=\"http:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/v=2\/album=2540804569\/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\/letters-to-the-farthest-star\">Letters To The Farthest Star by Forrest Fang<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"hideme\">\n1. The Unreachable Lands &#8211; i. Sunsail<br \/>\n2. The Unreachable Lands &#8211; ii. Song of the Camel<br \/>\n3. The Unreachable Lands &#8211; iii. Water Village<br \/>\n4. The Unreachable Lands &#8211; iv. Hermitage<br \/>\n5. Burnt Offerings<br \/>\n6. Veldt Hypnosis<br \/>\n7. Fossils<br \/>\n8. Seven Coronas<br \/>\n9. Lorenz<br \/>\n10. Lines to Infinity<br \/>\nTotal time:  68:57\n<\/div>\n<h2><FONT COLOR=RED>Limited Edition of 300 \/ Sold Out<\/FONT><\/H2><\/p>\n<h3>Download the 3 additional digital-only bonus tracks <a href=\"http:\/\/projektrecords.bandcamp.com\/album\/letters-to-the-farthest-star\" TARGET=BLANK>at Bandcamp.<\/A><\/H3><\/p>\n<p><strong>Letters To The Farthest Star<\/strong> is an ambitious and deeply personal dispatch: a far-reaching sojourn into the diverse ambient\/electronic influences that helped shape the last three decades of Fang&#8217;s unique &#8220;Fourth World&#8221; style. Fang began his tenth album with a challenge to himself: create a single work that acknowledged both past and present explorations while hinting at new avenues to come. <\/p>\n<p>Like messages from a universe without geographic borders, these pieces shift from dark, organic ambient passages to emotional, melodic interludes. In those moments, the tracks are textural, propulsive, expressive, and transparent; Fang\u2019s sound is anchored by an Asian sensibility that reflects his fondness for stringed and percussion instruments from China, Indonesia and Turkey. <\/p>\n<p>Fang says, \u201c<strong>Letters<\/strong> represents my style boiled to its essence. These tracks represent my musical past and present. I love variety, so I&#8217;m expressing different moods and styles in these pieces. They are both light and dark, often simultaneously, while being serious, intense, quiet or more spirited elsewhere. Some pieces are compact and to the point while others are more expansive and immersive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In his early years as a musician, Fang studied violin and classical composition while simultaneously creating electronic music on analog modular synthesizers. After moving to the Bay Area in 1984, Fang developed an interest in non-Western music; he studied Chinese classical music on the gu-zheng (Chinese zither), Balinese gamelan and gagaku (Japanese court music). Over the course of 13 albums, Fang has internalized and incorporated these Asian influences into his ambient minimalist style. <\/p>\n<p>The instrument list for <strong>Letters<\/strong> (ranging from violins and Turkish lutes to Indonesian percussion) provides a hint toward its stylistic and textural diversity. The album begins with a four-part suite, \u201cThe Unreachable Lands,\u201d which charts an imaginary voyage through unknown light and dark regions populated by lutes, drums, zithers, violin, piano, guitar and complex electronic undercurrents.  The mood turns pensive with \u201cBurnt Offerings,\u201d which features cumbus and Japanese palm harp.  A complex landscape of exotic polyrhythms and textures follows in \u201cVeldt Psychosis,\u201d a piece that evokes a hallucinogenic dream.  \u201cFossils\u201d and \u201cLorenz\u201d are deep sonic meditations into abstract interior spaces.  \u201cSeven Coronas\u201d offers a lyrical turn through a melodic violin riding over a hypnotic cyclical gamelan. The album closes with \u201cLines to Infinity\u201d featuring layers of delayed electronic mandolin processed like a guitar and played in a 70s German progressive style.  <\/p>\n<p>In addition, renowned ambient guitarist Jeff Pearce makes an ethereal appearance on the piano-based track \u201cHermitage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Letters To The Farthest Star<\/strong>, in effect, comes full circle by returning to Fang\u2019s roots as an electronic musician.  It is a moving and powerful testament to the exotic musical influences of his past and present.<\/p>\n<p>Street Date: March 3 2015<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"color:red;\">This item is out of print, and here for historical reasons.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/projektrecords.bandcamp.com\/album\/letters-to-the-farthest-star\" TARGET=BLANK><IMG SRC=\/store\/assets\/images\/Button-Bandcamp.png width=129><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/spottedpeccary.com\/shop\/letters-to-the-farthest-star\/\" TARGET=BLANK><IMG SRC=\/store\/assets\/images\/Button-24k.png ><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[54,50,49,570,102],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-7364","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-4-panel-ecowallet","pa_label-projekt","pa_release-year-456","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","product-type-external","border"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/7364","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=7364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=7364"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=7364"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=7364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}