The guy was wonderful and mad and around five feet tall. The tracks on 10 Women are inventive and can be transporting and evocative. But Quinlan's music also has substance, derived from Chinese history and its cultural reserves. And his work also has a certain admirable ambition driving it. Something that would move across borders.
Music builds bridges.
For one of his next projects, Quinlan hopes to compose more songs about Chinese women, the 10 women of contemporary China. Think art deco ballrooms and jazz. It sounds like the muse has already returned. The strikingly simpatico pair ventures even further into the stark emotional terrain of Harvey's last album, To Bring You My Love, which Parish co-produced. By turns mournful and dissonant, stately and manic, these collaborations exude an otherworldly drama, like blues beamed in from another dimension.