Performance

Taiwanese band Sizhukong blend jazz idioms with traditional Taiwanese/Chinese folk music into an exotic mix of striking melodies and shifting tempos. Beautiful and beguiling Scottish folk music taken into the future with guitarist, Graeme Stephen, and piper, whistle player and saxophonist Fraser Fifield.

 

 

About Sizhukong

“Sizhukong” means “Silk, Bamboo, Open” and originally refers to a pressure point near the temples.  A few light touches will relieve headaches, dizziness, and all sorts of aches.  To get from the silk and bamboo of our musical instruments to the openness of our music, imagine a lone knight who swoops to the rescue from high in the mountain passes.  Imagine listening to an impenetrable language that calls up visions before your eyes.

 

Sizhukong is a band, or a vision.  We chose this name to bring together as one the material of our instruments and the vast, all-encompassing power of the empty.  May our music touch you and bring you healing!