Directed by Kenda Gee and Tom Radford, Lost Years: A People's Struggle for Justice is a political and historical documentary about Chinese immigrants in North America and Oceania, featuring an immensely beautiful orchestral score by Canadian composer Darren Fung, who employed the forces of the China National Symphony Orchestra for the recording of the music. The score mirrors the epic proportions of the narrative, spanning over 150 years, and is a mix of traditional western orchestral writing and Chinese folk music, featuring instruments such as the erhu and pipa...

Darren Fung's score for Lost Years: A People's Struggle for Justice is a wonderful standalone album which beautifully takes Chinese folk music and brings it up to date adding a western slant on the proceedings. It's an approach that could so easily have failed, but Fung digs deep and delivers the goods.

There are so many powerful themes here that this is certainly a score you'll be playing to death and then digging out again in the not too distant future to rediscover. The album contains 16 tracks and lasts for 32 min, 40 sec.

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