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Howie Lee - Island Birdy
Taken from the album Birdy Island, out now
LP/CD/Digital - Mais Um (MAIS042)

"At once fine-grained and expansive, Lee’s work combines traditional Chinese music and historical references with wild electronic experimentation" 
7.6 in PITCHFORK 
"Birdy Island is Lee's most organic work" RESIDENT ADVISOR
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, due out in April 2021 on Mais Um. 

Howie’s latest offering is as enchanting as it is boundlessly imaginative. “I’ve always had this concept in my mind about making an album based around an island”. Loosely based around Lee’s own long-formed concept of a floating Sicilian theme park, co-inhabited by both birds and ancestral spirits, Howie remarks: "Birdy Island to me is a palace in the clouds and the birds are worshipped like Gods. Not like a western God though.” Reminiscent of Hayao Miyazaki’s Laputa (in the 1986 film Castle In The Sky), Lee’s Birdy Island has been built by a Chinese investment company seeking to re-sync our relationship with the spiritual and natural world after years of economic collapse and degradation, and who invite Howie to compose the park’s soundtrack. 

On the album’s 2nd single Island Birdy, Lee’s intricate brand of traditional pan-asian exploration meet experimental bass weight sound resurfaces with stripped-back UK Grime sonics and ceremonial taoist music at it’s centrepiece, fusing to create a sound world like no other. Reminiscent of movie or video game soundtracks of decades previous, Island Birdy feels intimate, yet refreshingly unfamiliar. 

From Daoist scripture to 1970s martial arts-themed wuxia novels, Howie’s myriad strands of musical and visual output have often enveloped themes circling modern and ancient Chinese history. Lee’s Socialism Core Value EP series and the dystopian-horror 3D animation for 2017 single Bankers (created and directed by Howie himself), as well as his work with visual artist and video game designer, Teom Chen (the pair have gone on to tour their collaborations across China as part of Lee’s live show), offer a glimpse into the broad social and cultural questions intrinsically entwined throughout his discography.  

Arranged and mixed by Howie Lee
All instruments by Howie Lee (keyboard & prepared piano, yang qin, guitar, bass, drums. percussion, accordion, flute, guan zi + digital instruments)
Choir vocals by Howie Lee, Yehaiyahan, Fishdoll and West by West
Artwork by Coldass @coldass.zhou

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Howie Lee - 岛鸟（Island Birdy) [2nd Single - Taken from the album 'Birdy Island', out now]

Toby Davis is a music producer and DJ from the hometown of Fenjiu, living quietly in Chang'an. He is a member of the bass label SOURCE. His creations and performances carry a particular mystery while facilitating boundless dialogues across different cultural backgrounds. Whether it's the gloomy sub-bass echoing through the underground passages of London, the tribal sounds of Durban in South Africa, or the Eastern charm of jade falling onto a plate, he always finds breakthroughs that bring surprises to his audience.
His EP Locked in Room and single Jiǔ Shén Zhòu have received promotional support from the well-known bass channel BlueDollarBillz. His collaboration with Brazilian rap mogul AKA AFK represents a side of him that is outwardly calm but rich in dark vitality. His music has appeared in compilations from renowned labels such as Mavericks, Seippelabel, Cyanide System, and ÖÖÖ, and he has released mixtapes on prominent radio stations like Sleepy Radio, Fangci Fever, and Cloak. He actively engages in the content output of club music.

Toby Davis是来自山西临汾，幽居长安城的音乐制作人&DJ，低音厂牌SOURCE成员。他的创作与演出，有着些许神秘色彩，同时组织着不同文化背景的无界对话。无论是穿越伦敦地下通道的阴郁sub bass、南非德班的部落之声或者珠落玉盘的东方神韵，他总能找到一些突破点，给听众带来意想不到的惊喜。

他的EP《Locked in Room》和单曲《酒神咒 Jiǔ Shén Zhòu》，受到知名低音频道BlueDollarBillz 的推广支持，与巴西说唱枭雄AKA AFK的合作，代表着他表面平静、却富含黑色生命力的一面。他的音乐出现在在C.T.M、SAFEROOM似福绒、菜谱厂牌、Cyanide System以及ÖÖÖ等知名厂牌合集，并受邀在如 沉睡电台、放刺Fever、Cloak 等知名电台发布 mixtape，身体力行的深入至俱乐部音乐的内容输出。