Levi Chen • Liquid Gardens 11 Tracks • 65 Minutes © 1999 Yin Yang Records

Liquid Gardens marks a major evolution in the career of Levi Chen. Ultimately relaxing, Levi’s crystalline guitar voice, and the delicate weeping of his Chinese harp (Gu Zheng) set the tone as always. However this recording is also full of sensuous grooves, is playful and passionate, powerful and poignant. It is a definitive statement of Levi’s unique compositional and guitar style, as well as his original approach to the Chinese harp. He is joined by a supporting cast of top LA musicians and guest artists on drums, bass, vibes, flute, banjo, tamboura and percussion.

“Not afraid of silence, Chen doesn’t inundate the listener
with a barrage of notes: rather he places notes as an artist
might paint, precisely and impeccably, weaving whole cloth
out of the musical heritage of two wildly disparate times and
cultures...a deeply spiritual, meditative jam session...
Not only is this an East meets West musical experience,
it is an ancient East meets modern West!”
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