Bei Bei Free, Live In-store Performance at Amoeba Music February 27, 2010

Into the Wind by Guzheng performer/composer Bei Bei He and Ubiquity producer Shawn Lee marries a unique blend of ancient tradition with studio trickery. This uplifting, genre-bending sound clash, recalls the afro centric harping of Dorothy Ashby and hypnotic spiritual jazz of Alice Coltrane. With Lee adding equal doses of hip hop, electric jazz, and soul sensibility to the backing tracks, the captivating sound of Bei Bei’s Guzheng comes alive on peaceful mellow joints as much as it does on Kung-Fu flavored funk tunes.

For an introduction to the Bei Bei and Shawn Lee project, Ubiquity released a limited edition 10” EP, featuring the original and instrumental versions of “Make Me Stronger,” with a vocal by Georgia Anne Muldrow (who had also recently produced and sang on records by Mos Def and Erykah Badu.) Alongside these, was the storming version of the Billy Paul psychedelic soul opus “East,” also featured on Into The Wind. A remix by UK producer Floating Points (whose “Love Me Like This”, “Vacuum Boogie”, and “Radiality” releases have been turning heads all year long) took “Make Me Stronger” deep into bugged out Wu-Tang territory. Reaction was positive from Berlin to Los Angeles, with KCRWs Garth Trinidad calling the tracks “A ray of light in my world,” and BBC Radio 1 DJ Mary Anne Hobbes saying “Love love love this.”

Official Website: http://www.amoeba.com/live-shows/performances/hollywood/2010-february-27/bei-bei/artist.html