On his ninth album, Animism, Chinese-American musician Forrest Fang creates a diverse musical style that fuses timeless Fourth World acoustic instruments with a modern fractal ambient sound. Inspired by the ancient belief that all living and inanimate forms possess a spirit or life force, Fang has composed eight pieces that radiate with energyand warmth.Fang has been making music since the ‘80s when he was part of the DIY ethos of the underground cassette culture scene. In the ‘90s, he emerged on the electronic music scene with an unique and eclectic Pan-Asian blend of exotic instruments and modern ambience. Over his previous three Projekt releases spanning the last decade, he created hypnotic pieces featuring layers of primarily electronic sound."Fang has come up with a compelling Asian new-music sensibility all his own. He"s a multiculturalist"s dream: blending heterogeneous sources into rich, overpowering sonorities, with rhythmic ostinatos that won"t let you sit still. There"stoo much rigor, austerity, and rumbling electronic discord for the music to ever lapse into New Age." -VILLAGE VOICEBesides acoustic and electric violins and mandolins, he embellishes his atmospheric textures with melodies and polyrhthms from stringed and percussion instruments such as the Turkish lavta, Peruvian bandurria, Filipino kulintang, Mexican cantaro and Balinese kendang.Animism is a celebration of life"s internal rhythms and their ultimate path to rest.Released mid-June, 2012 on Projekt Records.
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