Pipa l Fan-Qi 
Oud l  Dominika

The concept was inspired by Mandarin characters, 流and 留; both pronounced as LIU. Even though they sound the same, they have different meanings. 流 means Flow, 留 means stay.
As a foreigner in Sweden, there is always a controversy between stay or flow. This project reflected the thoughts in my mind. 

Where am I now?
What should I do?
Am I able to face all the challenges?
Should I stay?
Or should I leave?


Who am I?

流/留 Stay or Flow-Rehearsal ver.

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Shades

To You, Los Angeles

"I came to be human"
Aşık Nimri dede'den bir deyiş... 
A deyish, Alevi-Bektashi song from Nimri Dede... (Eastern Anatolia)
recorded in 114 day & night Sema gathering in Turkey, 2017

Balta Bağlama: Seda Seyrek
Vocals: Seda Seyrek & Hande Başaran

Seda & Hande - İnsan Olmaya Geldim

Ben dervişim diyene

Please remember to vote here :) https://www.songlines.co.uk/remix

This modern dance remix of Gender Wayang identifies and transforms the subtle melodies found in the original recording to create trance-like hooks that evolve with an unexpected twist; all accompanied by traditional West African percussion, sympathetic to the 'organic' nature of the metallophone.

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Gender Wayang - Burland Remix

Марат Нигматуллин - Смотри

Two Skies, composed by Dirk Maassen, felt piano cover. SHEET MUSIC:  https://bit.ly/37g3ULN

Dirk Maassen - Two Skies / Felt Piano Cover

www.mtnsotm.com for lyrics and more.

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/10p3jXNxRws5FA5E1HoWUs?si=-Rf1hkWvRK6cdzAMdvZx7g

Mastered by Oskari Jantunen.
Cover art by Nicholas Baum.

A Cutscene

Fan-Qi is a Pipa player from Taiwan. She is currently based in Sweden, pursuing her Master degree at Högskolan för scen och musik, Göteborgs university. 

Fan-Qi is an award-winning musician who has been invited to cooperate with many orchestras as a soloist including TYCO chinese orchestra, TCO Teacher chinese orcestra and NTNU symphony orchestra. After she won the first prize in National Pipa competition in 2019, she started to immersed herself in improvisation and world music, hoping to connect with the world through her instrument—the Pipa 

Influenced and inspired by minimalism music, Nordic Jazz, and folk music, Fan-Qi has absorbed diverse vocabularies and developed her own voice in an eclectic, poetic, and spacious way. Her groundbreaking exploration of Pipa extends the possibilities of pipa music, creating an innovative, unique bridge between different cultures. Besides her solo works, she is also a member of Mykorhiza, PIPA-ensemble and the holder of Hsing Tian Kong Long-Term Fellowship for Special talented Students.

流/留 Stay or Flow-Rehearsal ver.

Fan-Qi Wu

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