The Shanghai Restoration Project draws its creative inspiration from the old 1930s Shanghai jazz bands, an early combination of East and West that's become an international legend. Today Shanghai is a modern day chessboard of similar tensions and dichotomies, among them, exotic versus familiar, lore versus technology, and overriding it all, traditional Chinese philosophy versus contemporary life. The Shanghai Restoration Project captures and explores these tensions by introducing Eastern instruments and rhythms to Western sounds such as hip-hop, jazz, and pop.

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