This piece brings to life the feeling and images of an Ancient Chinese World. This song features Ron Korb playing the Chinese Bamboo flute along with the Chinese erhu (2 string violin) and Pipa (4 string lute).

Ancient China

In the 1930s, cities like Shanghai, Singapore and Hanoi were meeting points between East and West. Much of Asia was colonized with Vietnam being under French rule. When I visited Hanoi I noticed that the old French influence was still apparent in the architecture, language and cuisine. I wondered about how the cultures intermingled and all the secret cross cultural romances that must have occurred in those early days. This song is how I imagine the salon music would have evolved in those days mixing cafe music from Paris and jazz from America.  

Hanoi Café

Forbidden Love is a piece that was literally written on a napkin after visiting the Forbidden City in Beijing many years ago. After my visit, I went to a cafe and scribbled the main theme by my method of writing the note length and the letter name above. I have since visited the Forbidden City on two other occasions. On my first visit I was not only dazzled by the impressive buildings but also about the stories of the court life. A running theme throughout this album seems to be about being in love with someone but not being able to be get together because of social class and social rules. This fascination of mine Asian might be partly because I myself am a product of an Asian mixed marriage.

Forbidden Love - Asia Beauty

This piece is the central piece from "Dragon Flute and the House Of The Five Beauties" story included in the liner notes of the booklet. Musically, I wanted to create a sense of the grandeur of an ancient Asian empire. This was a big track to mix with over a hundred tracks. If you want to read the story it is printed in the liner notes of the CD booklet.  

House Of The Five Beauties - Asia Beauty

In the Guangxi Province in China there is a beautiful limestone cave that has attracted visitors since before the Tang Dynasty (618 AD). It is called the Reed Cave because of the reeds that grow nearby which can be made into flutes. I brought my Chinese flute and enjoyed the natural reverberation of the sound travelling down the colourful walls of the cave system.  This track is from the full length CD "Asia Beauty. 

The Reed Cave - Asia Beauty

This song is from the album World Cafe composed and produced by Flutist Ron Korb and features Cuban pianist Hilario Duran.

World Café

World Cafe

Hilario

This piece is from flutist and composer Ron Korb's album World Cafe and features Ron playing the bass flute with an accompaniment of four cellos.

Sans Regret Finale

Carnival

New Orleans

Patagonia

Take My Hand

Argentina

Island Life

Cordoba

Sans Regret

The cafe comes awake with sound
When offered to dance
let the music be your feet
The chance and moment will be gone quickly
Leave fear at the table
and embrace the rhythm
It feels good to be alive

Bailar Conmigo

Bailar Conmigo (Dance With Me)

Japanese-Canadian Grammy® Award nominated Ron Korb has travelled around the world collecting bamboo and various indigenous woodwinds. Creating a mosaic of Pan-Asian, Celtic, and Latin influences, his music is both fiery and sublime. His compositions are inspired by his exposure to the music many cultures and his mixed race upbringing in Canada.

Ron represented Canada at Expo in Aiichi Japan and at The 2014 Shanghai International Arts Festival’s where he was voted the audience choice by the fans. Ron is on the list of "Ten Best Flute Players in the World” list as well as winning countless other awards.

Ron’s new release World Café, features legendary Cuban pianist Hilario Duran and Jorge “Papiosco” Torres and Juno winning guitarist Johannes Linstead. This CD has already won the International Clouzine Music Award for Best World Fusion and the Global Music Award for outstanding achievement in World Music

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