GNO Top 10 series - XU Cheng

by lawrence

XU Cheng is a sound artist/designer based in Shanghai. He plays with Torturing Nurse regularly under the alias of Youki, and is also a member of OO (Two Noughts). Apart from all these, Xu is also (maybe we should say more than anything else) a veteran photographer.

Xu’s entry at Chinese New Ear is here, and don’t miss NOIShanghai.org, of which he is a founder.

As a designer, Xu submitted his top ten in an unconventional way. Instead of compiling a text list, he produced two mosaics of the album covers - one for CDs and one for……cassette tapes!

(For the CD albums mosaic, please click on the image to view a larger version.)

At GNO’s request, Xu has kindly provided us a text list as well.

XU CHENG’S TOP TEN ALBUMS

CDs:

# KENICHI Mikawa 美川憲一全曲集

# HAINO Keiji 灰野敬二 - わたしだけ？(Watashi Dake?)

# The Venus - Love Potion No.1

# J.S. Bach’s Die Kunst der Fuge (played by Keller Quartet)

# J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations (played by Glenn Gould, 1981 version)

# Schnittke’s Chamber Music (played by Kremer/Zimmermann/Schiff…)

# Amos Milburn Blues - Barrel House & Boogie Woogie: 1946 - 1955

# Michael Jackson - Off the Wall

# Hilliard Ensemble - Hilliard Song Book: New Music for Voice

# Oswald von Wolkenstein - Knightly Passions

# Marcel Dupre - Deux Symphonies pour Orgue

# Lead Belly - Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen

# Oliver Messiaen - Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps-Eduard Brunner/Tori Fontenay

# Jimmy Witherspoon - The Blues, the Whole Blues and Nothing But the Blues

# John Coltrane - Live in Seattle

CASSETTE TAPES:

# Little Tigers (Xiao Hu Dui) - s/t [Vintage ’80s/’90s boy-pop band from Taiwan]

# Lan Erduo Feichuan 蓝耳朵飞船

# Stories told by Sister Swallow 燕子姐姐讲故事 [Chinese audio book]

# The Gourd Brothers (vol. 2) 葫芦兄弟（下）[original soundtrack of Chinese animation]

# James Booker - Resurrection of the Maharajah

# Jimi Hendrix - Jimi Plays Monterey

MISSING ALBUM (HENCE NO PHOTO):

# ZHANG Chu 张楚 - Gudu de Ren shi Kechi de 孤独的人是可耻的 [One of the earliest Chinese rockers/alternative folk singers.]

(GNO Top 10 series invites Chinese sound artists/experimental musicians to list music/albums that are either their personal favorites or have crucial influence on them as artists. By doing this, we try to present the Chinese aural art scene in the context of the global music ecology.)




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