A Parallel Minds Release Party for Ciel's debut album 'Homesick'.
Featuring Ciel, Gremlinz, Daniel 58, Yohei S. and Milch!
"In 2021, spurred on by a productive creative streak and the economic austerity of pandemic lockdowns, I applied for grant funding from the Canada Council for the Arts to write my debut album. Tbh I never thought I'd gain the self-confidence to write an album. It wasn’t until after spending time away from clubs & festivals whilst dedicating myself to daily sessions in the studio that I found the motivation and aspiration to make a musical statement that only an album could express.
Like many other Chinese diaspora people in the West, I had felt a great deal of pain at the rise of anti-Chinese sentiment and racism in the media after the start of the covid-19 pandemic. Tired of expressing my frustrations online, I felt inspired to channel that into my music, to turn something that was filled with hate into a thing of joy and beauty. It was within this context that Homesick began to take shape.
After researching the history of Chinese instruments, a concept began to form in which I could marry my love of sampling and analogue instruments. Using the 8 types of traditional Chinese instruments (silk, bamboo, wood, stone, metal, clay, gourd, and hide) as a guideline, I began writing each track with a focus on 1 of the eight. I worked with Chinese instrumentalists to play the guzheng and the xiao, whilst teaching myself the smaller hand drums like the kuaiban (bamboo clappers) and muyu (temple blocks). After successfully getting the grant, I wrote, recorded, arranged, and mixed all nine tracks over the first three months of 2022. More than just highlighting Chinese instruments, the music on this album encapsulates so many musical influences from my childhood when I began my lifelong love affair with music, and true to my style, incorporates a diversity of genres I love, from drum & bass to house, electro to breaks - even downtempo."
See you all on Dec 16th! Doors at 8pm - for limited free entry before 10pm, please email [email protected] このイベントで問題がありましたか？
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