A record store located in the old town of Suzhou, dv often hosts various types of performances. This is a recording of the two sets at dv Suzhou on March 9 by Bond Yandsen, Tristan’s Oscillator, and Lihe.
Yong Yandsen is a free jazz and improvised saxophonist from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Yandsen has released albums through XingWu and Herbal Records in Malaysia, Utech Records (USA), Dream Sheep (Italy), and his solo debut on vinyl through Doubtful Sound (France). He has played at allEars Improvised Music Festival (Norway), Asian Meeting Festival (Japan), Mosaic Music Festival (Singapore), amongst others. Yandsen, together with Darren Moore and Brian O’Reily, form the improvised trio called Game of Patience. They have toured Japan, Singapore, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. Hungry Ghosts is his trio with European musicians Christian Meaas Svendsen and Paal Nilssen-Love and have done several tours in Asia and Europe. In 2022, the Big Foot quartet was formed with Akira Sakata, Seo Takashi and Darren Moore. Yandsen has also done several solo tours to Japan and Taiwan. Yandsen has also collaborated on albums with Japanese free improvisation legend drummer Sabu Toyozumi. He is the co-founder of a Malaysian record label, LaoBan Records, focusing on releasing contemporary improvised music.
This issue is divided into two parts, the first part comes from Yang Yansheng and Tristan’s Oscillator, and the second part comes from Yang Yansheng and Li He.
