Co-composed by Lao Luo and Bong On A Can founders Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe, Cloud River Mountain is an edgy cross-cultural collaboration between the Bang On A Can All-Stars and the extraordinary Chinese vocalist Gong Linna, whose dynamic voice covers a vast canvas of sonic colors. With an adventurous range that embraces Chinese folk, pop, and avant-garde art music (and has drawn comparisons to Bjork), Linna sings in both Mandarin and English over groove-driven melodies, punk-ish backbeats and lush soundscapes. Cloud River Mountain stirs ancient Chinese storytelling together with Western songwriting into a raucous musical mix, combining the mystical stories fo the past with the churning, clanging and sounds of the future.