Ashesash Jazz Quintet 2026-10-11 Cafe Roskam, Brussels, Belgium

Ashesash Jazz Quintet
Café Roskam
Brussels, Belgium
11 Oct 2026

ShaoHuan Hung - sheng #
Joos Vandueren - tenor sax
Machiel Heremans - guitar
Federico Stocchi - double bass
Gaspard Sicx - drums

01 stage intro
02 Writen Best
03 talking
04 Inverted Image of the Lakeside
05 UnknownTitle
06 UnknownTitle ("not a piece of music but will be a piece of music")
07 intro 2nd set
08 Back In Time (fade out) *
09 Move On [NOT RECORDED] *
10 talking
11 "Untitled" (fade out after 2:45) *

TT 1:09:54

Video: a short 2:03 video of track 04 "Inverted Image of the Lakeside" is
included, solely to show an example of playing the sheng.

Audio Source: Edirol R-09HR > wav 24/48 > Flac (5)
> Audacity (compression, normalize)
> LosslessCut (track)
> FFmpeg (3-sec fadeout on tracks 08 & 11)
> MetaFlac & Kid3 (metadata) > flac 24/48

Video Source: iPhone 15 > .mov (AVC 1920x1080 [16:9], VFR 29.361; Bit rate
15.3 Mb/s; Bit depth 8; Audio AAC-LC CBR 198 kbs, Sampling 48 kHz, filesize
240.5 MB) > FFmpeg (transcode video to libx264) > .mp4 (as for the .mov
file except: Bit rate 5461 kb/s; filesize 87.8 MB)
Command: ffmpeg -i IMG_7779.mov -vcodec libx264 -acodec copy Ashesash_libx264.mp4


* The Edirol stopped, I don't know why, ~17-1/2 minutes into recording
the second set. Not sure how much was missed. And when I restarted it,
it stopped again after ~3-1/2 minutes. New batteries; they still show
a charge. Anyway, I stopped restarting it after that, so the rest of
track 11 "Untitled" & the later songs were not recorded.

ShaoHuan Hung's comments are a bit faint as he wasn't using a microphone.

# Baidu describes it as 'The Sheng, also known as the Lusheng, is a blown
free reed instrument that produces sound through the coupled vibration of
reeds and bamboo pipes. It is the world's earliest instrument to employ
the free reed. Classified among the gourd instruments in the traditional
Chinese "Eight Sounds" system, it produces a clear, bright, and mellow
tone and is the only traditional Chinese wind instrument capable of
playing harmony.'

Wikipedia describes the Sheng as 'a Chinese mouth-blown polyphonic free
reed instrument consisting of vertical pipes' and notes that it was
'first mentioned in bone oracle writings dating from the 14th to the 12th
centuries BCE'.

Subjectively, it sounded to me at various times like a tin whistle; like
a flute; like a harmonica; like a small organ or maybe a harmonium; and
like some unidentified wind instrument.

Cover image is a photo of the performance, taken by me.

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