a concept album if there ever was one, new york artist marianne nowottny flexes her muscles on a traditional chinese zheng (aka koto). voice and zheng are the primary weapons here. listening to these live recordings, you can smell the clove smoke in the air and feel it swirl around your head. this is cerebral. haunted interpretations of the poetry of li bai melts into the woodwork, encompassed by nowottny's sultry voice. packaged in beautiful hand-stamped cardboard gatefold sleeves. 100 copies