Name: YIAN
Brand: Lucinda Chua

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4AD-0538-CD

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2023-03-24

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Supplier US

Beggars Group

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Sales:8.875

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191400053823

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4AD-0538-LP

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191400053816

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Artist

Lucinda Chua

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Lucinda Chua is a multi-talented artist known for her musical prowess and photography skills. She has showcased her cello-playing abilities on a tour with Stars Of The Lid, captivating audiences with her melodic talent. In addition to her musical endeavors, Lucinda also expresses herself through the lens of a camera, capturing moments in time through her unique perspective. With an impressive portfolio and diverse range of artistic abilities, Lucinda Chua continues to make waves in the creative world.

Conscious to hold space within her music for people to live inside, Chua thought often of YIAN’s sound in terms of sonic spacing. The hushed, flickering tones of "Autumn Leaves Don’t Come" and swelling strings of instrumental "Grief Piece" sound completely intimate, like she’s singing into your ear, yet capacious, like soft cocoons of sound. “For me, the music is like a home.” 

Cultivating a Chinese dance practice is as much part of the story of YIAN as the music itself. Chua returned to dance after struggling with the conservative constraints of ballet as a child, finding intuition and affirmation in the fluidity and naturalism of Chinese classical, fan &amp; ribbon and contemporary. Dance is entwined in the very texture of YIAN, with Chua undertaking deep study of Chinese dance forms whilst working on the album–the Echo music video, Chua’s take on a choreographed pop MV, is a moving and innovative homage to Chinese fan dance, martial arts, and the elements. 

Visually, the video is also inspired by the cult movies Chua grew up with (think&nbsp;Lady Snowblood, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, Kill Bill, The Grudge&nbsp;and&nbsp;Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon), whose hyper-stylised female Asian characters were some of the only on-screen representations available to Chua in her formative teenage years.

YIAN is as much an unpacking of Chua’s identity as a reinvention of it, a new way of seeing, pieced together through the practise of her artistic craft. “It’s like what I do with the cello, a classical instrument with so many historic undertones – running it through the pedals, changing its voice, playing it standing up, hacking with the meaning and symbolism of it. I respect the past yet build upon itin my search for a feeling of freedom.”

YIAN

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