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1LP Vinyl – RAD452

Heritage II captures the essence of childhood folk-tales (“Ryūgū-jō – The Dragon Palace – immortalized in the story of Urashima Taro), Buddhist myths ('‘Shitennō’ – The Four Heavenly Kings – exploring the idea of ancestral protectors and guardians) and ‘The Silk Road’ – a broken-beat riding composition born from de Clive-Lowe’s learning of the identical scales used in both Ethiopian and Japanese traditional music – ‘these musical building blocks, or DNA, of traditional melodies and harmonies in Ethiopia and Japan are literally identical. Not approximately, but exactly. Understanding this helped me conclude that a common musical language traveled the old world Silk Road as much as trade, commerce, customs and learned knowledge. This is inspired by that idea and imagining a whole new world which it all leads to.’