Moonrise shines bright with surprises

To Chinese musician Dadawa (Zhu Zheqin), Moonrise is perhaps as important an album as Graceland was to Paul Simon, in the way that it opens new doors for her.

All the songs were inspired by different traditions of folk music and contain samplings of field recordings. You can hear the Tibetan dramyin lute in Mountain Top, Mongolian throat singing in The Wind-Swept Grass, Uygur people's dolan muqam in Kalun and Asayesubay and the Kam Grand Choir of the Dong people in Golden Crowns and Silver Crowns .

A pioneer of world music in China and the first contemporary Chinese musician to have her music released globally, Dadawa has been known for borrowing Tibetan cultural symbols in her previous works.