遠人之歌 Sounds of Alienation (CN) - 天問 Tianwen
Digital:
https://yrzg.bandcamp.com/album/tianwen
Ember tears and moonwhite bones, bronze-rusted blood and dreams unhushed – with the release of another Soul, withdrawn and dispersed, embroiled into the unforgiving wind, into the ever boundless realm between Sky and Earth – A Jubilation of the Departed. Virtues ethereal like stars reflected across all four seas, Oaths unsung like sullied jade smelted in the celestial flames – such long-cherished wishes of the living have long found their abode within the floating Realm-in-between, the ever-expanding Way where all souls converge. Close your eyes, so that your Sky and Earth will finally reunite, and let your tears of sorrow and consolation flow inward – into the souls and their surge, join them.
远人之歌 | Sounds of Alienation is a newly founded Post-Metal band hailing from Beijing. While infusing elements of many other genres, their music, plaintive yet pensive, remains firmly rooted in Chinese aesthetics—in “our World” of yore and the present. In their debut album, 天问 | Tianwen, motifs and queries over which our forefathers once obsessed centuries ago, were retold within a soundscape both romantic and philosophical—like a traditional painting scroll, emotions sublime and heartwrenching were intuitively wielded into these six songs, where a blissful aching gradually blurred into the faded rims of mountains and rivers, of a vermillion and cyan so dampened and thinned. Eventually, like a downpour of stormlike radiance, erupting into one of the most enthralling closures we’ve seen in years.
“The Great Way has sojourned far—now is the moment of return. What is harbored in the heart dissolves into form. Those who are far away, those who have far departed, and the Self that has receded beyond sight—Sounds of Alienation, Sorrow upon Sorrow, answering in shared resonance.”