The Old Summer Palace (Yuan Ming Yuan)/
The Old Summer Palace is a project with improvised music and contemporary dance performed by XIN-ACT-LAB. Li Tieqiao was brought in to the production as a guest artist. The Old Summer Palace is inspired by on of the tracks on Li Tieqiaos album wind of Lunacy with the same name. The Old summer palace participated in the Beijing 2009 Contemporary Dance Week and Guangzhuo 2009 Contemporary Dance Week.
Tea Explosion/
Tea Explosion features Huang Jing (percussions), Li Jianhong (guitar/electonics), Li Tieqiao (alto/tenor- saxophone) and Sun Mengjin (vocal). Performed at the second Sally can't dance festival and was considered to one of the best performances of the festival.
Lucky/
The Lucky Trio is made up of Bruce Gremo (Cilia), Zhang Shouwang (Guitar) and Li Tieqiao (alto/tenor- saxophone).
Dom Padro/
Free improvisation, free jazz and experimental rock duo founded in Beijing in 2007. Li Tieqiao (alto/tenor saxophone), Justin Padro (percussion).
Tveit/Qiao/Gunia Trio/
Free improvisation, experimental, electronica Trio founded in Oslo in 2006. The Trio mostly perform pieces based on Cornelius Cardews the Treatise and other interpretive abstract scores. Li Tieqiao (alto saxophone),Alex Gunia (electronic guitar),Anders Tveit (bass, electonics).
TAT/
TAT is a free improvisation trio consisting of Li Tieqiao (alto/tenor-saxophone), Alex Gunia (guitar/sound and electronics) and Tore Brevik (percussions). TAT was founded in Oslo in 2007.
Banshee Howle/
Free improvisation, noise ensemble founded in Oslo in 2006. Banshee Howl consists of Daniel Meyer Gravold (guitar, walkie-talkie), Eirik Renton (percussion), Steinar Kristoffersen (guitar, vocal and samples), Li Tieqiao (alto/tenor saxophone and flutes).
D!O!D!O!D! + Li Tieqiao/
Free improvisation, experimental jazz, noise ensemble founded in 2005 Hangzhuo in 2005. Li Tieqiao (alto saxophone), Li Jianhong (guitar), Huang Jin (drums), Ji Mu (electronic effects).
Ping Pong Party band/
2004,Free jazz,Funk,Punk,Rock band in Bei Jing.Li Tieqiao SAX,Liang Zi Bass,Mao Mao Drum
Beautiful Melon 9+2/
Li Tieqiao (alto saxophone, bamboo flute), Xiao He (guitar, vocal), A Yuan (keyboard), Song Yuzhe(Mandolin, vocal ) Da Peng (Bass), Gou Long (percussion), Li Dan (percussion), Xiao Yong (percussion), Wan Xiaoli (guitar, vocal), Zhang Weiwei (accordion), Zhang Fangzhe (guitar).
Beautiful Drugstore band/
2001 Folk,Rock, Free jazz,Enxperiemntal band in Beijing.He Guofeng singe/Guitar,Li Tieqiao sax,Da peng Bass,Guo Long/Xiao Yong Drum.
Influences
Wind of lunacy
PICTURE
Design of CD, cover and back page.
Review of the album “Wind of lunacy”
In this album, which falls under the category experimental jazz, Li Tieqiao fully explores the potential which lies with in the saxophone (including with and without the mouthpiece), as well as a number of effect boxes, and he successfully pushes all of them to their outermost limits. If the first track “Wind of Lunacy” is like a suicide note or a perhaps like a war signal, a call for an attach, then the last track on the album, “Ping Pong”, is like a fantasy montage. Li Tieqiao uses his saxophone to simulate scratch noise effects and other effects used by ferocious electronic musicians such as Oval. Later on he turns this track into a blissful and intelligent expression. It is not only Li Tieqiao who have been taken by surprise by this crazy Ping Pong Kingdom, the Italian artist Armin Linke have recently been thinking about making a video concerning Ping Pong. In this video a ping pong champion is like a like a fast turning machine, an hypnotic instrument trapped in this ping pong country, And this saxophonist can also call himself a ping pong player, crazy and gracious. He throws himself into the ocean of noise, and this album becomes a ship in the huge ocean of noise. ----Zhang Shaozhuo “The Bund Magazine”
The album is a limited collection edition of 1000 copies; retail price 12 € (CYN 100) per album. A limited number of stickers with the “Wind of lunacy” will be given to buyers of the album on a first come first save basis.
If you want to order the album online the postal fee is as following: within Beijing city CNY 6 and other provinces CNY 10. For postal service outside China the postal fee depends on the destination and will be stated when an online order is placed. The album will be send when the payment is completed.
To post an order please write me an e-mail: litieqiao@gmail.com
Or contact me on (+86) 13811934518
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Li Tieqiao is a Chinese composer, saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist and curator based in Beijing. He is an extended techniques player and an outstanding experimentalist. In his improvisation he bravely experiment in search for a new expression between the boarders of jazz, rock and electronic noise.
Born in the Hunan province in 1973, Li Tieqiao first learned to play the Bamboo Flute as a child, before picking up the Trombone at the age of 17 . It wasn't until 22 he decided on the Saxophone as his primary tool of expression.
Li Tieqiao have only received very limited musical training and thus his musical techniques, his improvise techniques and use of electronics should be considered as self studied.
Before starting out as a full time improviser and experimentalist, Tieqiao was a member of member of Chinese folk/rock/jazz/experimental bands including Glorious Pharmacy, Ping Pong Band, Beautiful melon 9+2 Improvisation Ensemble.
From 2005 to 2007 Tieqiao lived in Oslo, where he interacted with a number of Norwegian musicians. During his time in Norway he actively explored the Experimental and improvisation scene in Norway. During the two years he organized and participated in more than 50 concerts and played with more than 80 musicians, including Paal Nilssen-Love, Ingebrigt Harker Flaten, Maja Ratkje, Ketil Gutvik, Rolf-Erik Nystrom etc. It was also in this period he started to experience with electronic effects and saxophone solo.
In September 2007 he returned to Beijing where he has become one of the most important persons in the rapidly expanding scene for experimental and improvised music in China. Besides performing live, Tieqiao is also actively nurturing China's fledgling Avant-garde scene. In March 2007, he was the maincurator behind, "Sally Can't Dance", a festival of experimental sounds held in Beijing. Moreover, as the initiator and organizer of the Beijing Free Improvisation Alliance he is a serious collaborator to the free improvisation scene in China. In addition to this he is actively cooperation with experimental dance groups in developing a new expression combining improvised music and dance. Lately his music has also been used in feature films. Furthermore, he is one of the founders of Sound of East: Sino-International Cultural Exchange Company.
Li Tieqiao has been performing at a number of festivals in China and abroad including Organ 2 (Norway), Early Wind (Germany), Midi Music festival (China), Sally Can't Dance(China) , 2pi (China) , Notch(China).
71 minutes of experimental noise jazz.
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|˟˟| (pronounced 'gate') is a Tokyo-based experiment in solo improvisation on multiple instruments simultaneously. The project’s music is influenced / inspired by among others free jazz, noise, drone, industrial, and Mongolian and Japanese traditional music. See profile page for more information and links.
Imagine: you are in a small space vessel. Lightyears and lightyears from home. You came closer to the gravitational abyss of a black hole than sane.
Your vessel is not powerful enough, you are drawn into that hole. You're trying to call home. You only get incoming alien conversation but no help.
This are the last minutes before the big squash - of that you know you won't even notice - too fast. You are desperate ! And then the only choice left - is to take what comes and not to die like a looser. You die head up.
The track is called "Hello Earth", a LoFi-classic from the mid 80s of mine and I hope: You're curios now :)
You can now listen to new K-Jell songs at our myspace site. The songs are taken from the new K-Jell cd “refreshing power” which will be out in about 2 weeks time in China and Europe sometime during April 2009 on October Party Records.
Hope you will take 3-4 min to listen and let us know what you think, leave a comment in the comment section.
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