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Lao Luo
5+ albums
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Robert Zollitsch (born 1966) is a composer and producer of new Chinese music. He is known as Lao Luo (simplified Chinese: 老锣; traditional Chinese: 老鑼; pinyin: Lǎo Luó, literally "Old Ro/Gong") in China, and established himself as an expert of traditional Asian music and a very important composer of contemporary Chinese art music. Zollitsch is known as an expert in Chinese, Mongolian and Tibetan art music. He has been producing and working with Chinese musicians or singers as Gong Linna, Urna, Du Cong, Qiu Ji, Luo Yan, by composing pieces for traditional Chinese instruments that make extensive use of harmonies, fusing together elements of different cultures, which leads to music that seems to be of traditional Chinese art music style with a western influence, sometimes sounding like music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart or Antonio Vivaldi or like pop music. The result is a style that is uniquely "Robert Zollitsch". He has written and produced, under his own label, KuKu Music, over a dozen recordings of contemporary Chinese art music, all of which have caused a sensation in Europe, Taiwan and Southeast Asia. His Chinese audience describes his music as "very Chinese, but with an exceptionally novel touch". Zollitsch studied the "timbre and performing techniques of the chime bells" firsthand, according to the Taipei Times. In February 2011, during the celebration of the Chinese Lunar New Year, his new experimental work Tan Te (Perturbed) sung by Gong Linna was popular around China,