This is the first time there is a Chinese band on stage and we are all so happy and applaud. I never heard that kind of thing before . I thought everything I do is too avant-garde. Any instrument can sound soulful. The reason I use the pipa is because I met a pipa player .
All Chinese instruments can be soulful, depending on the direction of the musician.
What matters is taste. Chinese musicians can achieve so many different kinds of style. That s the special thing about China s tradition of musicians. If you ask them to play Tchaikovsky or Rackmaninov, they can play it. They can play folk, they can play whatever.