“Tianshi” on Alto Stick

When my colleague was in the middle of preparations for getting married, he asked me to play a nice song at his wedding. “Nice” songs are a neglected minority in Chinese pop music; most of the popular songs deal with love affairs gone wrong, broken hearts, the loss of the original feeling, or they describe the emptiness after the loved one has passed away. Nothing that would really fit to the (admittedly cheesy) celebration of Eternal Love™. Hence, my vast catalogue of popular songs was all but useless. I had to learn how to play a new song: Mayday’s “Angel”.

This is my practise session in its blunt ugliness. I spliced in a solo section recorded at a different angle to divert you from the boredom. As you will probably notice, the introduction was lifted from my improvisation “Flow” which I recorded earlier.

(Yes, this is the same shirt as in my last video...)

My next recording will likely be an original song, unless I will be asked by my friends at youku.com for more sino pop before it is ready.

I offer this video for download in several formats. Choose one from the list below. When you do not want to care about codecs, download the free VLC player. If you are on GNU/Linux mplayer will work fine, too.

Medium Quality (HD 720)

Low Quality (HD 480)

Streaming

The video is available on Youku.

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