Reading aloud of a paragraph from Bukowski's short story "Some Mother",  translated into Naxi language

A Naxi-doze

Sounds Of Nature

Sichuan-based musician Baishui’s ninth album, Diary of Broken Sounds, follows quickly on the release of his first full-length soundtrack album, Einstein and Einstein. Both albums, though quite distinct, remain important signposts on the road to understanding the artist’s perpetual search for the optimal form of artistic expression. 

If Einstein’s overall feel is a heavy yang, Diary goes yin with a lighter, yet still full, sound. Though electronics are an essential part of Diary, the feeling is distinctly unplugged, in stark contrast to recent forrays into post-rock and experimental music. Diary, in short, takes a minimalist approach to the artist’s very maximalist goal: the pursuit of a new music—“Baishui Music”—with an Eastern core. 

Chimes and flutes float playfully across wide-open expanses; static-like sounds pierce the bed created by carefully-plucked strings evoking both old-time blues and new-age soundscape with an overall ambient-world-music vibe that is equal parts meditative and playful. For brief moments, the listener is rewarded with the haunting vocals of long-time collaborator Yuan Tian, transporting both music and audience to points far above ground and back in time. 

Diary is the artist’s journey—and, as listeners, we are along for the ride—through a freshly-carved yet still-to-be-fully-mapped-out terrain: “Baishui Music.” 

all music by baishui 
instruments,sounds,produced,mixed by baishui 
mastered by luo keju 
vocal & art work by yuan tian

Erya, pt. 2

有个小村庄
不情愿地过去
再就回不来

再在就不回来

This piece is about a village named Nuohei that nexts to the Stone Forest of Yunnan .I stayed there for a month to be with 40 students for their landscape oil painting lessons in 2011. The sound of  sheep bell, tractor, sani language talking, airplane in the sky, insects, chicks, dogs, TV and diner noise in this music  were all recorded from Nuohei.


This music is like a diary for me to remember  hospitable locals and beautiful landscape, the melody in the piece expresses the frame of mind while I stayed there, calm and wordless. 


32 days in Guishan

Born in a small Sichuanese city, Baishui is a composer and self-taught musician who plays guitar, piano and many traditional Chinese instruments. His earliest original compositions and performances were influenced by European neo-folk and dark ambient strains, but has expanded widely his musical canvas since. With neo-folk project Bloody Woods, experiment-in-randomness One Day In A Quark and under his own name, Baishui has been crafting intelligent and creative music across many genres, with musical inputs ranging from traditional Sichuanese folk ballads to 70s prog rock, atmospheric improvisation and beyond.

Erya, pt. 2

Baishui

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