October 2008 "Wind of Lunacy": Alto saxophone solo, xun and electronic effects.  

In this album, which falls under the category experimental jazz, Li Tieqiao fully explores the potential which lies with in the saxophone (including with and without the mouthpiece), as well as a number of effect boxes, and he successfully pushes all of them to their outermost limits. If the first track Wind of Lunacy is like a suicide note or a perhaps like a war signal, a call for an attach, then the last track on the album, Ping Pong is like a fantasy montage. Li Tieqiao uses his saxophone to simulate scratch noise effects and other effects used by ferocious electronic musicians such as Oval. Later on he turns this track into a blissful and intelligent expression. It is not only Li Tieqiao who have been taken by surprise by this crazy Ping Pong Kingdom, the Italian artist Armin Linke have recently been thinking about making a video concerning Ping Pong. In this video a ping pong champion is like a like a fast turning machine, an hypnotic instrument trapped in this ping pong country, And this saxophonist can also call himself a ping pong player, crazy and gracious. He throws himself into the ocean of noise, and this album becomes a ship in the huge ocean of noise.

----Zhang Shaozhuo  The Bund Magazine

Wind of Lunacy, the latest work from prolific and talented saxophonist Li Tieqiao is a wildly exciting musical exposition of the current state of structural, cultural and economic mayhem that exists in China today. The album: one man and his saxophone-passionately capture the tension of living in a society determined to court implosion as it eats its own past and ruthlessly creates its own future.

Wind of Lunacy a collection of sounndscape compositions which attempt to capture the feelings experienced by Li Tieqiao after he returned to China from his two year sojourn in Scandinavia are feelings which he describes as craziness in harmony. His playing is technically distinguished, and his fervent improvisation never less than compelling.

-------James Gary, Xiamen Waves

He's done it: After months of skimming his mind for ideas, entering the studio and exorcising his personal demons in intense sessions, selecting the best moments and gluing them together in a meaningful order, organizing and monitoring aspects like editing, mastering and artwork and waiting for the pressing plant to finally deliver the first batch of CDs, Li Tieqiao has released his official solo debut - discounting a live record for local label 2pi. The long wait has not been for nothing:  Wind of Lunacy blows through the streets like a veritable hurricane on the strength of nothing but Tieqiao's Saxophone. A steady stream of hyperactive roars, staccatoed breaths, rhythmical patterns and crackling micronoises, it builds glowing bridges between the traditions of Jazz and Free Improvisation and between the East and the West. The personal experience of its creator is clearly discernible here, as Li Tieqiao has spent two years exploring and enriching the Norwegian experimental scene, building connections and exchanging ideas. It goes without saying, that the direct and refined sound of the Norwegian scene has rubbed off on his own endeavours, even though his tireless brain still infuses his hands and lungs with enough idiosyncratic momentum and creative Oxygen for him to remain as raw and unrestrained as ever. He is going to need it, too - Li Tieqiao has made the improvement of the Chinese Impro scene his mission and with the country's current infatuation for sleak Pop productions, that may prove a hard job. And yet, with his openness for electronica and contemporary technology as well as his undying energy, there are ample reasons for believing he could do it. If he can pull off the seemingly impossible task of organising the release of a solo album in China from top to bottom, anything seems possible.

-------Tobias Fischer, Tokafi