Randy Raine-Reusch
Multi-instrumentalist Randy Raine-Reusch has followed an eclectic and personal path in music. The improviser always has multiple projects to satisfy his interests in traditional world music and avant-garde music. His regular projects include the excellent world fusion group ASZA, and a trio with bassist Barry Guy and flutist Robert Dick. Raine-Reusch has also worked with modern composer Pauline Oliveros, world-class percussionist Trichy Sankaran, vocalist Sainkho Namchylak, and has even backed rock groups such as the Cranberries and Aerosmith.
Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Raine-Reusch eventually moved across Canada to Vancouver, where he first began to delve into traditional world musics. One of his primary instruments early on was Appalachian music's dulcimer, followed by a period playing a bamboo mouth organ used in Thai music called a khaen. In the late '90s, he focused more on the zheng (a Chinese long zither with more than 20 strings) whenever performing in improvised settings. Over the years, he began learning to play an increasing number of instruments because he wanted to use them in compositions, yet couldn't find anyone to play them. Raine-Reusch had the opportunity to privately study with teachers of the respective traditional instruments, sometimes in the appropriate country. As a result, Raine-Reusch has had the honor of studying and even performing with musicians named "grand masters" and "national treasures" by their homelands, including an ichigenkin (Japanese one-string zither) duet performance with the Hereditary Grand Master of Seikyodo Ichigenkin in Tokyo.
Raine-Reusch now has a music-instrument collection of over 600 instruments and is able to play all of them. His culture-blending group ASZA incorporates original music into traditional forms, which they also blend in unusual combinations. ASZA has performed all over not only Canada, but at festivals and music schools in Southeast Asia, as well. In his collaborations with musicians of so many styles, Randy Raine-Reusch has performed at music events ranging from the Rainforest World Music Festival to various avant-garde festivals.
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Discographie
11 album(s) • Trié par Meilleures ventes
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Classical & Contemporary Chinese Music
Red Chamber, Mei Han, Randy Raine-Reusch, Laurence Mollerup
Musiques du monde - Paru chez ARC le 30 sept. 2016
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Looking Back
Randy Raine-Reusch, Joe McPhee, Deep Listening Band
Classique - Paru chez Za Discs le 5 mai 2013
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Distant Wind
Mei Han, Randy Raine-Reusch, Laurence Mollerup
Musiques du monde - Paru chez Za Discs le 1 mars 2005
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Willow of the Mountain
Musiques du monde - Paru chez Za Discs le 1 août 2012
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Kamüra
Henry Kaiser, Torsten Müller, Randy Raine-Reusch
Jazz - Paru chez Za Discs le 3 sept. 2012
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I Close My Eyes to See the Sun
Musiques du monde - Paru chez ZaDiscs le 1 sept. 2021
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Doors to the Forbidden City
Musiques du monde - Paru chez Za Discs le 1 août 2012
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Bamboo, Silk and Stone
Classique - Paru chez Za Discs le 1 mars 2004
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Mountains of the Moon
Musiques du monde - Paru chez Za Discs le 1 août 2012
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