Guo Yue has a growing reputation in the UK, his adopted homeland, as a writer and a specialist in authentic Chinese cooking. But his creative roots are in music. Worldrenowned as a virtuoso bamboo flutes soloist, composer and arranger, this CD captures the vivid, sensual experiences of his life as a boy, growing up in the Beijing alleys before and during the Cultural Revolution. It is a musical memoir. A journey towards freedom. "My name is Guo Yue. I am a musician, a Chinese Bamboo Flutes player, a composer and a cook. This is the story of my childhood in a musical family in Beijing before and during the Cultural Revolution. We lived in fear and my family suffered. Music and cooking were my passion and my freedom. I remember the vivid sensual colours, the smells, tastes and sounds of a world that no longer exists."