Journey to the Cave of Guanyin by Theresa Wong
An album of diversity of moods and states, colours, hues and shades. Seven different tracks with spiritual undertones and links to the Guanshiyin 觀世音, the embodiment of infinite compassion. A female deity but derived from the male Hindu Avalokitesvara. The fluidity that the main protagonist of this album has permeates over the sound of the whole album. Its resonance and dynamic energy is everything here. Theresa plays solo cello, but the density and the multi-colour and the structures can take up the whole mind space. A rare occasion of a compositional value that has so many aspects and difficult to classify - yet - through the personal narrative and understanding how the values and their translation into the musical language works opens so many different worlds. A beauty of its own kind, a conscious realm of music. From Theresa The inspiration for these pieces comes from the Chinese folklore of Guanyin, a deity whose name translates to ‘the one...
