Mei Han and Randy Raine-Reusch, creators of 2001's Juno Award-nominated album of modern Chinese zheng compositions, Distant Wind, will play with Japanese ichigenkin masters Issui Minegishi and Ichiyo Saito on September 29th, 8pm at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre in Vancouver British Columbia.

The ichigenkin is a rare Japanese one-string zither said to be "the essential expression of Zen." Randy Raine-Reusch will perform on ichigenkin, biwa and zheng, and Mei Han on zheng.

Randy informs us that "Mei Han and I will also be performing a concert tour of Vietnam, Singapore and Pakistan in Dec 2004, Jan 2005." For more information, check out www.asza.com.