"... sounds of Karen Han". "Karen Han is a classically trained chinese musician and singer, playing (astonishingly) on Erhu. The Erhu is a traditional violin-like chinese instrument, with only 2 strings. You can hear Karen's playing on several Riuichi Sakamoto soundtracks, like "The Last Emperor" and "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence!". Her sound is drenched in ancient musical tradition, so we here at Tone Casualties thought it would be perfect for some high tech torture. We recorded Karen playing her instrument and sent the tapes out to some pioneering musicians in the post-modern field. These artists were encouraged to have the freedom to do anything with it - sample it, run it backwards, cut it up, add layers to it, etc. The results are a very diverse and haunting coll...". A suivre.