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Lin Di takes a step back from rock to re-examine her folk roots with a new album and tour, Chen Nan reports.

Rock singer and pipa player Lin Di continues to show her versatility with her latest album, The Gossypium Era, which she defines as returning to her folk roots but with an edgy twist. Her goal, she says, is to take listeners back to the New Stone Age with experimental Chinese folk music as she plays her four-stringed Chinese instrument.

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In the small live-house venue at Post Mountain Art Space, almost 100 people sat on straw mats, facing a white stage where around 10 band members played traditional folk instruments, including flute, ruan (a Chinese plucked string instrument) and guzheng (Chinese zither).

Five of the players were from Cold Fairyland, a rock band Lin co-founded in 2001. The band has released six albums [url=http://www.cheapjerseysjets.com/nathan-shepherd-jersey/]Authentic Nathan Shepherd Jersey[/url] , but this was the first time the rockers in the group "unplugged" and picked up folk instruments.

The other players are Lin's former classmates at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, where she majored in traditional Chinese music and pipa.

As drummer Li Jia beat a tree trunk in the center of the stage, Lin began to dance, wearing a mask that created an atmosphere of prehistoric times. Words projected on the screen behind the stage introduced the story of each song. Lin also interacted with the crowd, asking viewers to shake sand hammers and make deep, guttural sounds to evoke the wars of primitive people.

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"There was a period of time that I didn't want to play pipa anymore. So I founded Cold Fairyland and played keyboard while being the vocalist," she says.

"But it seems that pipa and traditional Chinese folk music have always been there, influencing my thoughts and composing."

In 2005, she went to Guizhou province to visit tribes of the Miao ethnic group. That life, isolated from modern civilization, inspired her to make the album - her third solo album [url=http://www.cheapjerseysjets.com/trenton-cannon-jersey/]Trenton Cannon Jersey[/url] , after 2002's Ten Days in Magic Land and 2004's Bride in Legend - which is about the relationship between prehistoric life and music.

"Miao people live without electricity or tap water. They entertain themselves of playing various musical instruments, from flutes made by eagles' bones to percussion made by wood," Lin says.

"Their lives and evolving music connect closely, which fascinated me."

In 2006, she composed 12 songs for the album. But due to the avant-garde approach, her record company at the time didn't release the album. After years of revising and looking for the right producer [url=http://www.cheapjerseysjets.com/chris-herndon-jersey/]Chris Herndon Jersey[/url] , Lin teamed with a Beijing-based indie label, Tree Music, and released the album in late 2013.

"The market for traditional Chinese folk music is too narrow, and it's losing audiences because of the shortage of good new works. To attract audiences, especially young people, composers have to expand their imagination and give it a try [url=http://www.cheapjerseysjets.com/joe-namath-jersey/]Joe Namath Jersey[/url] ," she says.

Besides Cold Fairyland and the current folk-music band, Lin has another group, Swing Shine, which she formed in 2010 with French musician Jeremy Lasry, who is now her husband.

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"As a foreigner, when I listen to Gossypium Era, I feel the writing to be a contemporary style inspired by the old cultural life of ancient China," says Lasry, who came from a musical family and graduated from a classical music conservatory majoring in double bass.

He originally came to China with a French band on a six-month contract to perform at a Shanghai bar.

Now, the couple is flying to Europe for their honeymoon. They will return to Beijing in September to perform at a jazz festival.

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