Reviews

• In Lament, quite apart from using a melee of ancient East/West instruments and sounds, and these in tiny shreds and smudges, [Tan Dun] creates instrumental theatre, manipulating the stillness by confounding our expectations. The silences might be sudden, our held breath diffused by Tan beating shapes in the air, or we might be slid into stillness on an outbreath…. It is music of surprises, but of incredible cleanness—listening was like waiting for dawn to arrive.
  Mary Miller, Scotsman, 20/03/1993