Driving percussive and hypnotic string harmonics with sparse percussion and emotive, cinematic and melodic themes.

Lyrical guitar leads into urgent traditional Chinese theme with melodic flute refrain.

Ambient gong bass provides substrate for constantly developing, polyrhythmic gamelan patterns.

Ambient piano and yangqin lead into dizi flute and erhu led theme.

Gentle yangqin and guqin ostinatos, with lightly strummed chords on the daruan, create a bed for expansive themes performed by the erhu, morin khuur, xiao and bawn.

Guzheng pedals a riff joined by sanxian ostinato. Atmospheric meditation bells sizzle as the percussion section and synth pulses build. Guzheng and xiao play emotive melodies.

Tuned metals play sparse melodies, accompanied by guzheng and guqin, underpinned by light percussion grooves. Question and answer themes develop with erhu and shakuhachi bedded with morin khuur lush pads.

Polyrhythmic reyong gongs and cave stalactites set the oceanic scene as the acoustic guitar and koto create a suspenseful sequence leading into a funky groove with wistful dizi melodies and an optimistic crescendo reducing to the stalactite and reyong outro.