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Release Date: 2021-04-09Label: Redgold Records
A selection of tracks from various Grand Union Orchestra shows including The Golden Highway; A Book Of Numbers; Bhangra, Babylon and the Blues; Bengal Tiger, Shanghai Dragon; Freedom Calls; If Paradise; and Now Comes The Dragon’s Hour.From brash instrumentals and pounding rhythms to tender love songs and atmospheric textures: taken together they follow a journey along the Silk Road to ancient China, through central Asia, crossing Africa and the Atlantic with the slave trade, evoking the horrors of war, celebrating resistance and revolution, finishing on what the Silk Road has become in the 21st century.