Strong (Demo)

Sinking (Solo - Live)

Based on the Lady Astronaut novels by Mary Robinette Kowal.

Lyrics: http://dawnxianamoon.com/song-lyrics/thecalculatingstars

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The Calculating Stars (demo)

Based on the books by NK Jemison.

Lyrics: http://dawnxianamoon.com/song-lyrics/thefifthseason

The Fifth Season (demo)

A song for the end of the world. For performers, artists, everyone in the entertainment industry, restaurant workers, and anyone else who feels this right now. Based on NK Jemison's The Fifth Season. 

Written, recorded, and performed by Dawn Xiana Moon. 

Trying something new. Recorded and mixed today in my apartment in the middle of Chicago while on lockdown. (Also: Over 15 years as a professional musician, but it's my first time playing with things like loops and beats and orchestral samples! This one needed to sound more apocalyptic than just me and a piano though.)

Download Song: https://dawnxianamoon.bandcamp.com

Lyrics: http://DawnXianaMoon.com

The Fifth Season (Apocalypse Version)

This song has meant a lot to me over the years. 

"What a beautiful piece of heartache / This has all turned out to be."

Cover of "Latter Days" by Over the Rhine. Live from my living room.

Latter Days (Over the Rhine Cover - Living Room Recording)

A sonic experiment. Recorded and mixed June 14-15, 2020 under quarantine in Chicago. Improvised piano. Samples mostly from Music Radar.

Created as part of the Wayward Artists-in-Residences Collaboration Project. 

“What I’ve started I must finish. I've gone too far to go back. Regardless of what may happen, I have to go forward.”

I've gone too far to go back. Regardless of what may happen, I have to go forward. (Experiment)

"Sometimes it feels like this baby is going to be born during the apocalypse. But then again it's always been the case for mothers to birth babies in times of hardship - when I think back to my ancestors who bore babies under enslavement and war, then I have an awful lot to celebrate. He will be a phoenix." - Ryan Myers-Johnson

For Ryan and her child to be.

Written, recorded, and performed (piano) by Dawn Xiana Moon. Samples mostly from Looperman.

And He Will Be a Phoenix

Creating in quarantine.

Written, recorded, and performed (piano) by Dawn Xiana Moon. Samples mostly from Looperman (especially FL Souto on drums and Amir Mofrat on kamancheh).

Lullaby from the Apocalypse

Introduction to the Apocalypse

A seductive and passionate voice, evocative songwriting, and formal training make Dawn Xiana Moon one of the most distinctive Asian-American singers of her generation. The Singapore-born musician has performed in 10 states and released two solo albums; her latest CD, Spaces Between, fuses elements from traditional Chinese music with jazz and alt folk pop, resulting in a musical brew in French, English, and Mandarin Chinese that draws influences from sources as disparate as Han Dynasty literature and Americana.

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