天地不仁 Tiān Dì Bù Rén, by Howie Lee

天地不仁 Tiān Dì Bù Rén

by Howie Lee

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1.	Tomorrow Cannot Be Waited 03:48	buy track
2.	Enter The Tigerwoods 04:21	buy track
3.	Mountain Song In A Jar 01:43	buy track
4.	Taihe Blues 03:37	buy track
5.	21th Century Suicide 04:57	buy track
6.	The Jungle of Escaping the Evil 03:01	buy track
7.	A Drowning Horse 03:46	buy track
8.	Sino-African Friendship Bridge 03:24	buy track
9.	Double Kings 03:29	buy track
10.	Bird's Self-Awareness 03:08	buy track
11.	Edward's Resort 03:20	buy track
12.	One Water Of Red Trees 02:40	buy track
13.	Rejuvenation 02:39	buy track
14.	Black Clouds Unfold 04:36	buy track

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"Tiān Dì Bù Rén" takes its title from an idiom in the Tao Te Ching, a foundational Daoist text credited to the sage Laozi, where heaven and earth ("Tiān Dì") are merciless, leaving humanity to fend for itself. If Mù Chè Shān Chū was youthful vigour and idealism, Tiān Dì Bù Rén is clear-eyed maturity. A gaze back into the indifferent heavens.

Over 13 songs, Howie’s signature mix of traditional Chinese instrumentation and experimental soundscapes reflect on human will and human destruction. The interplay between capitalist greed and environment degradation, the conflict between human morality and scientific ethics, the tension between global movement and local pushback. Howie’s songs are conversations in dialectic, a synthesis of opposing positions, emotions and reactions. Tiān Dì Bù Rén tackles parochial nationalism and populist anger in China, observing both Howie’s homeland and the wider world as a dispassionate sage would analyze " tiānxià" (‘all under heaven’).

Taken as a whole, the album is nothing less than a new musical language, one that combines the ancient and the modern, the Chinese and the global. Starting from, but not restrained by geography, Tiān Dì Bù Rén circles constantly around the troubled relationship between people and nature. There’s no cynicism here – just a determination to break on through to somewhere new. The Dao urges us to "Wù Wǒ Liǎng Wàng" (forget everything including oneself), and Howie Lee’s new album is the soundtrack to forgetting – a meditative apocalypse.

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released October 11, 2019

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