Name: Jade
Brand: Pan Daijing

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PAN113lp-C1

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White

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White Vinyl

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2021-09-10

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Secre­tly

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Sales:8.875

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756029612822

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1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / white

Artist

Pan Daijing

Genre US

Techno / Electro

Label US

Pan Daijing is an artist and composer. She was born and raised in Guiyang, China and is currently based in Berlin. With a unique blend of experimental music, noise, and performance art, Pan Daijing has established herself as a prominent figure in the contemporary music scene.

Her compositions often explore themes of identity, power dynamics, and emotional vulnerability. Drawing inspiration from her Chinese heritage and her experiences living in different cultures, Pan Daijing creates immersive sonic landscapes that challenge traditional notions of sound.

Known for her captivating live performances, Pan Daijing combines her haunting vocals with intricate electronic arrangements to create an intense sensory experience. Her work has been compared to artists such as Vanessa Amara, Puce Mary, Loke Rahbek, and Croatian Amor.

What if a song was not a culmination but a singe, an imprint, or a crater left in the wake of creative process? On her new record "Jade", Pan Daijing composes at a different scale than that we’ve come to know. Since the release of her groundbreaking LP "Lack" in 2017, Daijing has expanded her operatic vision into a series of major commissioned exhibition-performances at institutions including the Tate Modern, Martin Gropius Bau, and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Developed for full casts of opera singers and dancers, and reaching for an all-encompassing durational experience of intensity for both performer and audience, the development of these works was for Daijing as emotionally disarming as it was thrilling. In order to continue accessing her own limits, Daijing had to develop a place of sanctuary within her own practice. Its nine tracks written and recorded over the last three years, "Jade" is the sound of solitary release and refuge, of creative self-sustenance. Written without the imperatives of direct address to performers or audience, "Jade" speaks inward, while inviting a kind of rhetorical listening. The artist draws on materials familiar from her previous work: namely, ascetic electronic textures that rumble and pierce, and voice bent in irreverent directions. In place of catharsis, however, her arrangements here linger in tension, extending curiosity towards the delicate void that nourishes extremes. They toy with the minor capacities of song: repetition, chant, observations that conclude without resolving. "Jade" comes from a vulnerable place, tender as in an undressed wound caught in the midst of healing over. Vocals, mostly Daijing's own, arrive as wordless sequences of notes soaring alongside a drone, or plain laughter, or in a few places spoken word. What is said or sung provides fragments of experience and reflection. In the process of piecing together these fragments, the listener is confronted with the tender parts of her own. 

"Solitude is like an immense lake you're swimming through," says Daijing of these songs. "Sometimes you dip your head in and sometimes you lift it above. On album centerpiece "Let," she speaks to us over the sound of rippling water, returning between anxious scenes to a refrain: "I take my bath in the ocean." We are not just consuming Daijing's story; we are being invited to join her in the water. The album is mixed and mastered by Rashad Becker, featuring artwork by Pan Daijing, cinematography by Dzhovani &amp; design by NMR.

Jade

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