Chui Wan, by Chui Wan

The Sound Of Wilderness

Chui Wan

by Chui Wan

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1.	Seven Chances 03:57		buy track
2.	Estivation 05:15		buy track
3.	Vision 04:11		buy track
4.	On The Other Ocean 04:24	lyrics	buy track
在另一片海洋在另一端它们轻轻唱都吻合你我的想象放任自流放任自流相比你我他更像在另一片海洋歌唱都吻合你我的想象在另一片海洋在另一片海洋歌唱
5.	Only 04:52	lyrics	buy track
他们乐于夸耀，但常忘记即便是新月，也是旧的明日已经远去，唯有今日
6.	The Sound Of Wilderness 06:56 video	lyrics	buy track
每一次期待都停不住它的位置旷野之声来自四面八方
7.	Silence 05:38	lyrics	buy track
没人知道从何而来故事已被掩盖没人记得几张面孔何必独自涉险焦急等候长大的人赎罪一般重来沉默至终眨眼的人售卖她的安宁每次你离开后猜测因果每当你靠近又忘光沉默至终眨眼的人浸没你的安宁她说她说她说大雨将至她说大雨将至大雨将至大雨将至
8.	Beijing Is Sinking 07:41	lyrics	buy track
北京在下沉四处都是火焰放慢脚步走去倾听

about

Three years after releasing their debut album, White Night, Chui Wan brings their sophomore, self-titled album into the world.

Over the last few years, Chui Wan has progressed with a new drummer, Li Zichao, while its core members — bassist Wu Qiong, guitarist Liu Xinyu, and vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Yan Yulong — have striven to perfect their musical ideas. On Chui Wan, the focus is less on the unbridled, reverb-drenched inflections of White Night, drawing more from the band's wide palette of influences, including Sufi music, Southeast Asian folk tunes, and 20th-century avant grade composition. With confident, driving rhythm, they aim to embody a pop-influenced idiom of rock music, creating their own musical language in the process. Beyond the infectious melodic hooks on Chui Wan lies a near-constant fluctuation of beat and tempo, a deliberate maneuver calculated to create a simultaneous sense of fluidity and disjuncture.

Compared with White Night, Chui Wan's sophomore album is structurally more complicated, yet simpler and more direct in its studio approach. It eschews White Night's complex, repeated overdubs and adds more intricate lyrical work, which reflects the dynamic of calm and tension that stands out in Chui Wan's live performances.

Chui Wan's guest musicians also contribute significantly to the album's distinct temperament. You can hear the trademark noise guitar wails of psychedelic free improv master Li Jianhong on the album's closing track, "Beijing Is Sinking". The album also contains a hidden gift: a remix of the second track, "Estivation", by Dead J, one of Beijing's most established and progressive electronic music producers. Dead J's "Estivation" remix is a minimal, ambient, rhythmically more angular take on the original.

It is also worth mentioning that Chui Wan bassist Wu Qiong lends her vocal abilities to "On the Other Ocean" and "Silence". Her voice adds rich choral accents to the album, a long-player already brazen in its Baroque sonic ornamentations.

Chui Wan was recorded and produced by Yang Fan. It will be released on CD and vinyl LP by Maybe Mars Records in May, 2015.

credits

released May 1, 2015

All songs written by Chui Wan, recorded in Beijing, in the winter of 2014.

Yan Yulong: vocals / guitar / violin / organ
Liu Xinyu: guitar / percussions
Wu Qiong: vocals / bass
Li Zichao: drums / celesta

Yang Fan / Li Qing: background vocals, “Only”
Li Jianhong: guitar, “Beijing is Sinking ”
Dead J: remix, “Estivation”

Recorded/mixed/produced by Yang Fan at Fan Fu Studios.
Mastered by Garrett Haines at Treelady Studios.
Cover art: Lv Junlin
Design: Ruan Qianrui

Chui Wan thanks everyone mentioned above, as well as: Josh Feola, Kai, CC Wang, Deng Chenglong, Liu Lu, Cao Lingfeng, Snapline, Yan Jun, Zhu Wenbo, Zhao Cong, Lu Wei, Li Ping, He Fan and Zhang Mengyao.

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Maybe Mars Beijing, China

Recording our time. (2007 - now)

discography

Family

Feb 2023
The Last Quartet

Dec 2022
Lu Ser

Nov 2022
43 (Falling Down)

Nov 2022
An Invalid Witness

Oct 2022
The Man on the Atlantic Coast

Sep 2022
I Want an Authentic Tail

Jun 2022
You Leave Me Alone

Jun 2022
Ceremony for Corruption

May 2022
Today's Production

May 2022
Disco

Apr 2022
Face of the Night

Apr 2022
86

Mar 2022
大海的執著

Mar 2022
Adventure

Jan 2022
Pray

Jan 2022
California Vibes

Dec 2021
Come Up Girl

Dec 2021
Traffic Light

Dec 2021
The Door of Blue Mountain

Dec 2021
New Building That Collapsed

Dec 2021
Baby, Don't Be Too Sweet

Nov 2021
Theatre Graffiti

Oct 2021
Impossible at Night

Sep 2021
The Crowd

Sep 2021
Fireworks

Sep 2021
The August Is Not Finished Yet

Aug 2021
Swimming

Aug 2021
Sealed Container

Aug 2021
The Final Movement to the Silhouette

Aug 2021
月升

Jul 2021
开场曲

Jul 2021
If I'm in Love with You

May 2021
Wild Woman/That's Why We All Fake

Apr 2021
Consultation After Drinking

Apr 2021
Ants Corrupt Elephant

Mar 2021
For the Betterment of Well People

Jan 2021
Passenger on the Eve

Dec 2020
Seven Winters

Dec 2020
RUNRUNRUN

Nov 2020
The New World

Oct 2020
One Heart

Oct 2020
Sadness Is a Universal Emotion

Sep 2020
Once Upon A Time In The East

Aug 2020
Wake Me Up

Aug 2020
Love of Nightmare

Aug 2020
I Hate Winter, New Year and Red Light Runners

Jul 2020
Bildungsroman

Jul 2020
Jinsui Avenue

Jul 2020
Gentle Binding Love 33EMYBW remix

Jul 2020
I Hate Cold Winter, New Year and Red Light Runner

Jul 2020
Buried

Jul 2020
Disconnection

Mar 2020
Ruyi Lane

Jan 2020
Dream Like A Buffalo

Dec 2019
Walking On The Ice

Oct 2019
Unity

Oct 2019
Eye

Sep 2019
They Slipped Away From My Mind Just Like This

Jul 2019
HOON

Jun 2019
Dive / Summer Begins Ⅱ

Apr 2019
Let Yourself Float In An Unknown City / Saturday Rhythms

Apr 2019
The Youth Lake / Man In Green

Apr 2019
Mountain of Time

Feb 2019
Maybe Mars 2018

Dec 2018
Shou Hua

Nov 2018
What We Talk About When We Talk About His Name

Oct 2018
Tent

Aug 2018
TheAnswerS#3

Aug 2018
Dance on the Street

Jul 2018
Human Nature Architecture

Jun 2018
Into Sparks

Jun 2018
She Came Back From the Square

May 2018
Through the Park, Almost There

Apr 2018
Bird to Otherside

Apr 2018
OUT OF THE FOG

Apr 2018
Return to Desolation Lake

Mar 2018
Maybe Mars 10th Anniversary

Jan 2018
How'd I Turn So Bad?

Dec 2017
Daddy

Sep 2017
The Landscape the Tropics Never Had

Sep 2017
Holey Brain

Aug 2017
Heart of Desire

Jul 2017
Dragon Bus Terminal

Mar 2017
WHITE+ LIVE IN ZHEJIANG, CHINA 2018

Feb 2017
A Letter From China

Sep 2014
The Chinese Are Coming

Sep 2016
Eat or Die

Sep 2016
Zoomin' Night Live Recording Vol. 1

Oct 2010
Life’s A Gasp

May 2016
Music for An Exhibition

Oct 2015
The Root of Innocence

Jan 2016
Uncontrollable, Ice Age Stories

Dec 2015
Wet Hearts & Dry Vomit

Jul 2015
Chui Wan

May 2015
No Need For Another History

Apr 2015
Medusae

Feb 2015
Farewell To the Summer

Oct 2014
Teenagarten

Sep 2014
Maybe Mars Presents The XP Sound

Sep 2014
Dynasty

Apr 2014
Go Big Shadow City

Apr 2014
3

Feb 2014
Time Cue Remix

Jan 2014
The Watcher

Oct 2013
Ten Years Rebellion / Bastards of the Nation Split

Apr 2008
1984

Sep 2013
No Party People

Jun 2013
Maybe Tonight (CD+DVD)

Apr 2009
White

Apr 2013
White Night

Nov 2012
The City of Burning Identities

Sep 2012
White+

Jun 2012
Phenomena

Apr 2012
The Tree Ever Green

Feb 2012
Birdstriking

Feb 2012
Beauty in Strangers

Jan 2012
Sin Harmony

Dec 2011
Sports

Dec 2011
Lanzhou Lanzhou

Oct 2011
Silly's Ballad

Sep 2011
Reprieve

May 2011
City of Heartbreak ‘N Horror

Apr 2011
Generation Six

Jan 2011
The Words That Were Burnt

Oct 2010
Travelers

Sep 2010
Flight Of Delusion

Sep 2010
Boyz & Girl

May 2010
The Greed of Man

Apr 2010
Hey, Youth!

Mar 2010
How Damn Far To YinMa Lane?

Dec 2009
No Party People

Oct 2009
Mind Shop

Aug 2009
The Performance of Identity

Jul 2009
You Can Listen, You Can Talk

Jun 2009
Any Monkey Is Dangerous

May 2009
The Gar

Mar 2009
Ourself Beside Me

Jan 2009
We Can't Help Kissing Each Other

Dec 2008
City Weather Sailing

Jun 2008
Kitsch

Jan 2008
Bastard Of The Nation

Jan 2008
Ten Years Rebellion

Jan 2008
Booze At Neptune's Dawn

Sep 2007
Party Is Over, Pornostar

Sep 2007
Sacrifice Mountain Hills

Jan 2013
Independent China in Stereo - Maybe Mars 5th Anniversary

Aug 2012
兵马行空 Maybe Mars Vol.1 (2007 ~ 2009)

Oct 2009
Carsick Cars

Feb 2018

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