Free Touching: Live in Beijing at Keep in Touch

Free Touching: Live at Keep in Touch is a live recording of improvisational performances by Chinese guzheng virtuoso Wang Yong and six international musicians: Dutch jazz drummer Han Bennink, Austrian violinist Andreas Schreiber, American guitarist Dennis Rea, American trumpeter Lesli Dalaba, and horn players Claudio Puntin and Steffen Schorn.[1] The jam session from which the album is drawn was recorded during the Beijing International Jazz Festival on November 12, 1996 at Keep In Touch, reportedly China's first internet cafe.[2]

Free Touching: Live in Beijing at Keep In Touch
Live album by
Wang Yong, Han Bennink, Andreas Schreiber, Dennis Rea, Steffen Schorn, Claudio Puntin & Lesli Dalaba
Released2004
Recorded1996-11-12
GenreFree Jazz
Free Improvisation
World Music
Length2:01:04
LabelNoise Asia Records
Han Bennink chronology
Strandjutters
(2003)		 Free Touching: Live in Beijing at Keep In Touch
(2004)		 Still Quite Popular After All Those Years
(2004)
Dennis Rea chronology
Shadow In Dreams
(1990)		 Free Touching: Live in Beijing at Keep in Touch
(2004)		 Views From Chicheng Precipice
(2010)

The recorded performances are a mixture of American style free jazz and European influenced improvisation blended at times with traditional Chinese music.[3] On his website Dennis Rea states that Free Touching: Live in Beijing at Keep in Touch is "quite possibly the first recording of free improvisation to emerge from China."[4]

The album was released as a double CD in March, 2004 on the Hong Kong-based Noise Asia Records label. It is distributed in North America by Verge Music Distributing.[3][5]

Track listing

Red Disc - 58:51

  1. "Improvisation 1"
  2. "Improvisation 2"
  3. "Improvisation 3"
  4. "Improvisation 4"
  5. "Improvisation 5"
  6. "Improvisation 6"

Pink Disc - 62:13

  1. "Improvisation 7"
  2. "Improvisation 8"
  3. "Improvisation 9"
  4. "Improvisation 10"
  5. "Improvisation 11"

Personnel
  • Wang Yong - guzheng
  • Han Bennink - drums
  • Andreas Schreiber - violin
  • Dennis Rea - guitar
  • Steffen Schorn - horns
  • Claudio Puntin - horns
  • Lesli Dalaba - trumpet

Notes
  1. "Discogs: Free Touching - Live In Beijing At Keep In Touch". Discogs. 2008-07-06. Retrieved 2008-07-06.
  2. Rea, Dennis (2006). Live at the Forbidden City. iUniverse. pp. 179–191. ISBN 0-595-39048-X.
  3. "Free Touching: Live In Beijing". Verge Music Distribution. Retrieved 2008-07-06.
  4. Rea, Dennis. "Dennis Rea: Discography". Retrieved 2008-07-06.
  5. "Noise Asia Records". Noise Asia Records. 2004. Archived from the original on 2008-06-07. Retrieved 2008-07-06.
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