Mu Guang Ye Xun (Twilight Diaries) is an ambient and classical music album by the Chinese contemporary musician and composer Liu Yi-wei.
" Twilight Diaries" is a unique ring-structured musical narrative, that reveals memories in cinematic flashbacks. The music of the first chapter is a return to the last chapter. Tracing back seven imaginative scenes and time ballads that are endlessly cycling in eternity, and diving deep into the heart.
The majority of works are based on musical pieces Liu Yi-wei composed for collaborations with modern dance theaters and choreographies between 2015 and 2022, completed by two recent works from 2023.
This corpus of works set the foundation of the album, with the intention to reset, and to form a new concept and structure. The overall process was completed in July 2023.
01 Hu Po (Amber or Memories )
Memories are hidden in the mind like fragments, but there is also a hazy light.
Premiered in "Selfless Selfie", choreographed by Wang Yuan-qing. 2017
The dialogue narration voices come from the dancers' discussion on personal memory and digital media during the break in the rehearsal hall of Lei-Dong Theater Beijing.
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02 Song Xiang (Rosin)
Deja vu, as if meeting for the first time.
Premiered in "The Cube", choreographed by Du Yan-hao. 2018
rework and violin was recorded in 2023
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03 Bian Du (Where)
The train platform way to home is closed.
Premiered in "Bian Du", choreographed by Jin Xiao-lin, 2015
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04 Gong Jian (Bow and Arrow)
There was a tiger in front of me, and I could only survive by shooting it with the bow and arrow in my hand, I had to go through the forest to the river. The arrow is on the string, but I can't bear to kill, my heart is struggling.
— I wake up from a dream.
Recent work, 2023.
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05 Mao Shi (Time of Sunrise)
Go straight in the midnight, until the first ray of sunshine in the sky.
feat Aming Liang《Solstice Ring of Fire Eclipse》2023
Aming Liang: Frame drum, Percussions, Bass synthesizer.
Liu Yi-wei: Flugelhorn, Harmonic synthesizer.
Recent musical collaboration, 2023.
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06 Dui An (Riverside)
Premiere at "Dog Talks" Metamorphosis Modern Dance Company (Spain) 2019. Choreography by Iratxe Ansa & Igor Bacovich
07 Shou Tan (Sign Language)
Premiered in "Move in Stillness", choreographed by Jin Xiao-lin. 2022
Cover painting:
Wang Qiang, South Station, acrylic on canvas, 109cm x 190cm, 2020
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A special thanks:
Thanks to the painters Wang Qiang and Han Bing. From the basement studio of the Beijing Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1993 to my band period in the 1990s. There are too many stories. Thank you for the collaboration on this album, bringing us together once again.
Thanks to Wang Yuan-qing and Jin Xiao-lin, these two angelic people made my music face different audiences and stages for the first time and brought the greatest inspiration and support.
Thanks to Du Yan-hao's choreographed "The Cube" and Iratxe Ansa & Igor Bacovich's Metamorphosis Modern Dance Company's multiple collaborations for allowing me to gain more progress and improvement.
Thanks to the dancers of Lei-Dong Theater at that time, today I heard the discussion about memory again during the rehearsal of "Selfless Selfie" in 2017, and I still feel I am very touched. This recording is placed in the first music chapter, and I think it is the most rare and precious, unreproducible sound record of memory.
Thanks to the musician Aming Liang, we completed the music of "Mao Shi" together. We joked in private that the two of us were drunkards walking at night. A drink 'til dawn combo. See you in the thousand and one night!
Finally, thanks to all the friends who grew up together! Thank you for your support!
Composer & Music Producer
Projects:
Far Infinity /Conceptual Techno
Mobius /Audio&Visual
Liu Yi-wei /Ambient and Experimental,
Choreography and Film Soundtracks.
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This album is truly one of my favorite as it makes me think about the act of forgetting something when you don't want to. You can't control it and makes you feel miserable. This truly makes me enjoy the memories I can remember because there will be a point in time where it will be gone. tenr3d
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The title says it all: Amazing collection of sounds from the golden age af japanese ambient - which also happens to be the pinnacle of ambient, period! Only disappointment: This is only samples of the original full, two-disc record, but worthwhile none the less. polinos