HOWIE LEE - Birdy Island - LP - Vinyl
Label: Mais um Discos
SKU: 13583
Barcode: 4062548021684
Catalogue ID: MAIS42LP
Format:
LABEL: Mais um Discos
CAT NO: MAIS42LP
BARCODE: 4062548021684
Tracklisting:
1. Time To The Sun 光阴向太阳
2. Feather Signifier ⽻⽑能指
3. Wave, Wave, Wave 波、波、波
4. Foreign Flowers 域外花
5. Island Birdy 岛⻦
6. Birdy Island ⻦岛
7. The Door Of Aspiration 神往的⻔
8. Dawn Of The Idols 偶像的黎明
HOWIE LEE – Birdy Island
LP – Vinyl
Swirling layers of OST-style sound design, dreamy choir vocals and traditional Chinese folk combine across eight dynamic and transportive tracks on Birdy Island, the latest album by Beijing-based producer / artist, Howie Lee, on Mais Um. Fresh off the back of several high impact, club-centring album releases on Maloca, SVBKVLT and his influential, Do Hits label, on top of remixes for artists including Lawfawndah, Charlie XCX & Sophie, Lee presents his most organic and expansive project to date. Written, produced and recorded entirely by Lee at the back end of 2018 (with the exception of the album’s resident fourpiece choir made up of rising Beijing artist, Fishdoll, Shanghai singer / producer, Yehaiyahan and West by West, with Lee himself also included), Birdy Island’s almost exclusively acoustic yet broad sound palette threads continuities between ceremonial Taoist music, early Buchla synth experiments, and FWD nights at London’s Plastic People.
Threads elements of traditional Chinese folk, OST-style sound design, ceremonial Taoist music, jazz fusion and stripped-back UK grime sonics. Based on Lee’s own long-formed concept of a Sicilian theme park in the sky, co-inhabited by both birds and ancestral spirits. Lee has been invited to compose the official Birdy Island soundtrack.
PRESS/ONLINE:
“One Of The Most Important Names In Chinese Contemporary Electronic Music” – Hyponik
“The Sound Of China’s Cyber Underground” – Vice
