The Sages (竹林七贤) is a new world music fusion band project based in London that draws inspirations from different music elements throughout time and history. “The Sages 竹林七贤” is a reference to a group of 7 literati, artists and scholars in ancient China who chose to escape mundane and hypocritical secular life and status to live in the remote natural countryside with the companionship of music, poetry, art (and wine) in search of a higher spiritual fulfillment.
As a diverse cosmopolitan generation growing up under an age of globalization and other social changes, the band aims to explore the concepts between “East” and “West”, cultural identity and musical “genres” through both original composition and adaption of traditional folk music.
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Below is a preview of a couple tracks from The Sages’ upcoming self-titled album to be released this year.
