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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Stingless bees and music:</b><br><br><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666">Delicate Paths - Music for Shô</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666"> </span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666">| </span><span style="font-family:"MS Gothic";color:#666666">たおやかな</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666"> </span><span style="font-family:"MS Gothic";color:#666666">歩</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666"> </span><span style="font-family:"MS Gothic";color:#666666">み</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666"> </span><span style="font-family:"MS Gothic";color:#666666">笙</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666"> </span><span style="font-family:"MS Gothic";color:#666666">の</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666"> </span><span style="font-family:"MS Gothic";color:#666666">音</span><span style="color:#666666"> </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666"><br>Sarah Peebles with Evan Parker, Nilan Perera, Suba Sankaran </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <b><span style="color:#e69138">Out Now! </span><span style="color:black"> <a href="http://unsounds.com/shop/delicate-paths" target="_blank"><span style="color:silver">unsounds 42U</span></a></span></b></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Sarah Peebles' recent explorations of the Japanese mouth-organ, the shō, delve into the instrument's connections to ancient Asia: it's history, evolution and present-day connections to people, habitat, animals and culture - including connections to tropical stingless bees. The foreword (onli<span style="color:black">ne at <a href="http://unsounds.com/shop/delicate-paths" target="_blank">unsounds 42U</a>) includes images of tropical stingless bees and their resinous nests alongside the instrument's interiour mechanism and its resinous materials.</span><br><br><span style="color:#141413">Contemporary compositions and improvisation have become a part of The shô repertoire since the 1960s, and its arresting pipe-organ sound has drawn fans from around the world. The music of ‘Delicate Paths’ features acoustic shô solos and group improvisations with Evan Parker, Nilan Perera and Suba Sankaran, electroacoustic music and highlights unusual approaches to recording the shô. The intimate, dry sound reflects the instrument in its most exposed context. This release also features “Arborrations”, a short online video by guests film makers John Creson and Adam Rosen (at <a href="http://www.unsounds.com/shop/delicate-paths" target="_blank">www.unsounds.com/shop/delicate-paths</a>)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br>Sarah Peebles is a Toronto-based American composer, improviser and installation artist whose distinctive approaches to sound-based art include integrated media works involving native bees, wasps and pollination ecology, acoustic and amplified improvisation on the shō (<span style="font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">笙</span>, the Japanese mouth-organ used in gagaku), and digitally manipulated found sound, composition and performance. Details at <a href="http://sarahpeebles.net/" target="_blank">sarahpeebles.net</a> and Resonating Bodies (<a href="http://resonatingbodies.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">resonatingbodies.wordpress.com</a>). </p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:#141413">Distribution: Subterranean (NL) Metamkine (FR) Mandai (BE) Goodfellas/Soundohm (IT) Shellshock (UK) Squid Co (USA) CDbaby (USA) Canadian Music Centre (Canada). Available from <a href="http://www.unsounds.com" target="_blank">www.unsounds.com</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br>Photos: Giorgio Venturieri (bees), Rob Cruickshank (mouth-organ).</p></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></div></body></html>