Michael Ranta: Yuen Shan – CD

Metaphon 006, Belgium 2021
2nd CD edition, 250 copies
Gatefold cardboard wallet with 12 page booklet.

16 track composition for pre-recorded sounds and live percussion performed by Michael Ranta. (entirely different work from the Yuen Shan CD released in 2005). All material previously unreleased.

Yuen Shan (Round Mountain in chinese) was conceived in 1972 and finalised in 2014. A musical cosmogony in 4 cycles based on different levels of ancient asian spiritual principles.

1. Yin-Chu
2. Gu-Luan
3. I-Shr (2014)
4. Li-Huai

…All returns to the origin, to the silence, to the void.
This is the way of nature.
All things arise and disappear.
One observes their eternal recurrence…