This sort of combining yin and yang makes a very interesting music sound.” What we hear on the title track, as well as throughout the album, is the sound of an ancient world fused with Sa Dingding’s 21st century modernist vision. According to Sa Dingding, “I think these ancient instruments create something harder, male, compared to the softer female qualities of modern melodies and arrangements. “Lai Zhe Mo Jie” (The Coming Ones) features the Gu Qin – the oldest musical instrument of the Han people. Every person is ‘a coming one’ – by that, I mean we are all coming and going, to and from this earth, in the ways of karma”. “I want the listeners to find their own peace and happiness from it.

It is spiritual music, simple yet full of complexity, imbued with Sa Dingding’s China, conjuring up images of wondrous places and peoples. She began in Chengdu on the edge of the fertile plains in Sichuan Province, finishing her trip in Kunming – the ‘City of Eternal Spring’, capturing the sounds that became the inspirational elements for The Coming Ones. Sa Dingding weaves soundscapes – everyone with the broad sweep of cinemascope.Īccompanied by Hans Nielson, a field-recording expert from Denmark, Sa Dingding set off on an epic journey across China, to capture the music and sounds of her country’s past, before they are lost forever. The result is magical and mystical, simple yet complex…modern beats fused with ancient ethnic music. To produce this very special album Sa Dingding undertook a trip to record the music of local people in the mountains, hills and plains of southwest China. It is inspired by the natural world, a world we all share, yet one that is infused with the essence of the native cultures of her own country – a simple yet powerful message for the world. If you’ve never heard Sa Dingding’s music then we encourage you change your listening habits and check out, The Coming Ones – it is elemental.

Sa Dingding The Coming Ones