David Darling and the Wulu Bunun....Midanin Kata....a must

[WIREMAN]

....."Holy Shit!!!!!!!!!!!...I'm blown away......taiwanese singers with this awesome cello and pecrussion....it's amazin'!!!....don't even wanna read the liner notes ,,,,no I'lllll............savour this.....highly recommended...........wired

[frollostone]

I've been trying, fruitlessly, to get into this album. It's a shame, because I like the idea and I wish I liked the execution as well. I think it's the calm plunk-twiddly-plunk of the cello that gets to me. I prefer the rougher sound of, say, the Papua New Guineans recorded by Charles Duvelle, that blunt flute and the harsh, exclaiming voice on 'Pile Pe' from his Papua New Guinea compilation, or The Badger King, a US band whose singer makes herself known with a more refined version of shouting, or the musicians on Ethiopiques 12, whose guitars sound, by Western standards, untuned and unexpected. Too much smoothness makes me want to run around biting things and throwing grass.