Oliver Sudden Productions is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 independent record label

Independent record label

An independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels. A great number of bands and musical acts begin on independent labels.-Overview:...

 focusing on traditional music

Traditional music

Traditional music is the term increasingly used for folk music that is not contemporary folk music. More on this is at the terminology section of the World music article...

 from various parts of the world. Founded by music producer Paul Etch in Montreal

Montreal

Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

, Quebec

Quebec

Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

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Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 in 1995. Highlights of the company's current catalog includes the albums by Chinese erhu

Erhu

The erhu is a two-stringed bowed musical instrument, more specifically a spike fiddle, which may also be called a "southern fiddle", and sometimes known in the Western world as the "Chinese violin" or a "Chinese two-stringed fiddle". It is used as a solo instrument as well as in small ensembles...

 player
Lei Qiang, Japanese koto

Koto (musical instrument)

The koto is a traditional Japanese stringed musical instrument, similar to the Chinese guzheng, the Mongolian yatga, the Korean gayageum and the Vietnamese đàn tranh. The koto is the national instrument of Japan. Koto are about length, and made from kiri wood...

 player Satomi Saeki, Vietnamese dan bau musician Pham Duc Thanh,
Paraguayan harp

Paraguayan harp

The Paraguayan harp is the national instrument of Paraguay, and similar instruments are used elsewhere in South America, particularly Venezuela....

ist Eralio Gill, flamenco

Flamenco

Flamenco is a genre of music and dance which has its foundation in Andalusian music and dance and in whose evolution Andalusian Gypsies played an important part....

 guitarist Juan Carranza, Indian sarod

Sarod

The sarod is a stringed musical instrument, used mainly in Indian classical music. Along with the sitar, it is the most popular and prominent instrument in the classical music of Hindustan...

 player Aditya Verma,
Japanese shakuhachi

Shakuhachi

The is a Japanese end-blown flute. It is traditionally made of bamboo, but versions now exist in ABS and hardwoods. It was used by the monks of the Fuke school of Zen Buddhism in the practice of...

 player Alcvin Takegawa Ramos, Chinese yangqin

Yangqin

The trapezoidal yangqin is a Chinese hammered dulcimer, originally from Middle East and Persia . It used to be written with the characters 洋琴 , but over time the first character changed to 揚 , which means "acclaimed". It is also spelled yang quin or yang ch'in...

 musician and former music professor at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music

Shanghai Conservatory of Music

The Shanghai Conservatory of Music , as the first music institution of higher education in China, was founded on November 27, 1927. The teachers and students have won numerous awards both home and abroad, thus earning the conservatory the name, “the cradle of musicians”.-History:The Shanghai...

 Anna Guo

Anna Guo

Anna Guo is a Chinese traditional musician who plays the yangqin. She taught at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. From 1985 to 1996, she was head of the Shanghai Women's Silk String Quintet. In 1996 she emigrated to Toronto, Canada...

, Chinese zheng

Zheng

Zheng may refer to:*Zheng , an ancient state in China*Zheng , 鄭 or 郑, a Chinese surname*Zheng County, former name of Zhengzhou, capital of Henan, China*Guzheng , a Chinese zither with bridges...

 player Hong Ting, and Chinese pipa player Liu Fang

Liu Fang

Liu Fang is one of the most prominent pipa players in the world. Born in Kunming in the Chinese province of Yunnan, she began playing the pipa at the age of 6. Her first solo public performance was at the age of 9. In 1986, at age 11, she played for Queen Elizabeth II...

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Discography

• "Chinese Traditional Erhu Music vol. 1" by Lei Qiang 1995
• "Chinese Traditional Pipa Music" by Liu Fang 1996
• "Chinese Traditional Erhu Music vol. 2" by Lei Qiang 1997
• "Flamenco de la Costa" by Juan Carranza 1997
• "The Art of the Paraguayan Harp" by Eralio Gill 1998
• "Vietnamese Traditional Music " by Pham Duc Thanh 1998
• "Sarod; Traditional Music from India" by Aditya Verma 1998
• "Oliver Sudden Productions Sampler" by Various Artists 1999
• "Playa Gitana" by Juan Carranza 2000
• "Chinese Traditional Yang-qin Music" by Anna Guo 2001
• "Vietnamese Traditional Dan Bau Music" by Pham Duc Thanh 2002
• "Mareas" by Juan Carranza 2003
• "Chinese Traditional Zheng Music " by Hong Ting 2004
• "Japanese Traditional Koto and Shakuhachi" by Satomi Saeki & Alcvin Takegawa Ramos 2006
• "Japanese Traditional Flute for Meditation;Zen Shakuhachi Vol.1" Alcvin Takegawa Ramos 2007
• "Japanese Traditional Flute for Meditation;Zen Shakuhachi Vol.2" Alcvin Takegawa Ramos 2008
• "Japanese Koto Music" by Satomi Saeki 2009

External links

• http://www.oliversudden.com Oliver Sudden Productions official website
• http://www.myspace.com/oliversuddenproductions myspace site
• http://www.wpr.org/higherground/Podcast.cfm Interview on Wisconsin Public Radio
• Review and interview with Paul Etch from Inside World Music by Paula E. Kirman Dateline: 07/23/99.
• http://worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com/worldmusic/view/page.basic/artists National Geographic World Music site