Thursday 25 February 2016

A Chinese Idyll.

I realise that this sort of music isn’t to everybody’s taste, but the trick is to ignore the video. Instead, close your eyes and imagine fisher boats on the Yangtze, cormorants preening themselves on little rocky islands, bamboo swaying lazily in balmy breezes, and happy rustic peasants eating platefuls of Chicken Chow Mein which the more liberal post-Mao government has allowed them to import from California.


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