Sleeper's Tale LP (2011)
Artist: ShiXian
Genre: Modern Asia / Folktronica
Genre: Modern Asia / Folktronica
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The Experimental Modern Asia storyboard album concept derived with Calvin's personal desire to enliven Oriental culture and modernize it with modern Western influences. Created to lead the audience as much to an imaginative world as possible, the genres mixes mainly Ambient Lounge spiced up in Oriental influences combined with Trance and Rock elements, together with variations of New Age, World and Garage exploits. 3 difference languages English, Mandarin and Japanese are used including numerous instruments from congas, djembes, udu drums, violins on top of the standard instruments. Every song tells a different tale.
Track Listing
01. Moonlight Silhouette
02. Sleeper's Tale
03. In The Rain
04. Ni Ai 逆爱
05. 5000 Miles
06. Sweet Dreams
07. Peaches' Way
08. Wind of Dreams
09. Mystic Flames
10. Storm
11. Netherland
12. Sideline
13. Li 力
02. Sleeper's Tale
03. In The Rain
04. Ni Ai 逆爱
05. 5000 Miles
06. Sweet Dreams
07. Peaches' Way
08. Wind of Dreams
09. Mystic Flames
10. Storm
11. Netherland
12. Sideline
13. Li 力
Story Board
Quiet in the marshlands, in a gleam of a 1. Moonlight Silhouette, two lovers’ walk peacefully in deep romance, the touch in their eyes gazing upon each other, sweet serenity and peaceful blessings flowing as their hands move in a notion of gentle fondle. Dreaming of a life of adventure together, they journey into a tale that has just begun. An epic story of the 2. Sleeper’s Tale!
Surroundings of watered garden breeze, they kiss 3. In the Rain of touching love. Blissful mesmerising thoughts fill their hearts and souls as they swirl for a future that is left untold.
But the time has come, and life as it is, never sympathising to man, kindles events and circumstances, the battle of war and romance 4. Ni Ai, forcing them 5. 5000 Miles apart unto the faraway lands. Their hopes has become like an ancient ship sailing on unchartered waters. Frozen in tears and separation, the only place they could fall back on was an alternate hallucination of reality, 6. Sweet Dreams of being together again, illusions appearing only when they sleep.
Still, the sands of time moves forward, whatever sweet memories becomes just like the 7. Peaches’ Way, falling off the trees in cold winter. Their love starts to wither as the seasons change. The 8. Wind of Dreams, blowing bitterly and tearfully, as the burdens of life itself devours them endlessly.
9. Mystic Flames of confusion and distrust, cutting deep into their hearts in blinding darkness, amidst a 10. Storm of calamities arising, throwing a relationship of what was once beautiful love into a frenzy of hatred instead. Where was the tall high tower standing in the glamorous sunset, that which has fallen into debris, deep into the depths of 11. Netherland itself.
Forgotten from a time so long ago, they wake up from their deep sleep, but it has been too late. Their love had brought itself into the 12. Sideline, their toils of what had been has become a fruitless journey.
In the moments of silence and recuperation that drags along, every life pauses, every music quietens. In a dim of still limelight, no true sadness can be left unrewarded; the coming of a new morning, a strength of unseen perseverance evolves, recovery that grows to glory. A 13. Li that follows them, into their lives as a true diamond they will never forget, for the future has yet to come.
Surroundings of watered garden breeze, they kiss 3. In the Rain of touching love. Blissful mesmerising thoughts fill their hearts and souls as they swirl for a future that is left untold.
But the time has come, and life as it is, never sympathising to man, kindles events and circumstances, the battle of war and romance 4. Ni Ai, forcing them 5. 5000 Miles apart unto the faraway lands. Their hopes has become like an ancient ship sailing on unchartered waters. Frozen in tears and separation, the only place they could fall back on was an alternate hallucination of reality, 6. Sweet Dreams of being together again, illusions appearing only when they sleep.
Still, the sands of time moves forward, whatever sweet memories becomes just like the 7. Peaches’ Way, falling off the trees in cold winter. Their love starts to wither as the seasons change. The 8. Wind of Dreams, blowing bitterly and tearfully, as the burdens of life itself devours them endlessly.
9. Mystic Flames of confusion and distrust, cutting deep into their hearts in blinding darkness, amidst a 10. Storm of calamities arising, throwing a relationship of what was once beautiful love into a frenzy of hatred instead. Where was the tall high tower standing in the glamorous sunset, that which has fallen into debris, deep into the depths of 11. Netherland itself.
Forgotten from a time so long ago, they wake up from their deep sleep, but it has been too late. Their love had brought itself into the 12. Sideline, their toils of what had been has become a fruitless journey.
In the moments of silence and recuperation that drags along, every life pauses, every music quietens. In a dim of still limelight, no true sadness can be left unrewarded; the coming of a new morning, a strength of unseen perseverance evolves, recovery that grows to glory. A 13. Li that follows them, into their lives as a true diamond they will never forget, for the future has yet to come.
Moonlight Silhouette
This slow sweet, distant composition fills the mind with a light, scenic, musical spice. A song that brings you throughout history and evolution, scenic soundscape played with synthesizer sounds flowing in fluid emotion that calms our thoughts into an imaginative world of beauty and history
This slow sweet, distant composition fills the mind with a light, scenic, musical spice. A song that brings you throughout history and evolution, scenic soundscape played with synthesizer sounds flowing in fluid emotion that calms our thoughts into an imaginative world of beauty and history
Sleeper’s Tale
Stories of the dreamer, far away from the world of reality we so live in our daily lives. Can you remember the hidden memories of your deep sleep? Another life we live, mysterious yet soul searching, our subconscious speaks to us in pictures and illusions. Maybe it's another life we live, maybe that's the real life we live, and conscious life is but a dream
Stories of the dreamer, far away from the world of reality we so live in our daily lives. Can you remember the hidden memories of your deep sleep? Another life we live, mysterious yet soul searching, our subconscious speaks to us in pictures and illusions. Maybe it's another life we live, maybe that's the real life we live, and conscious life is but a dream
In The Rain
A creative experimental track that infuses Japanese and Mandarin language with a fusion of New Age, Oriental and Modern Electronic Dance styles
A creative experimental track that infuses Japanese and Mandarin language with a fusion of New Age, Oriental and Modern Electronic Dance styles
Ni Ai 逆爱
A song written about war and romance
A song written about war and romance
5000 Miles
5000 Miles is a song describing the departure of lovers countries apart. It describes the loss of one man from his love and the feeling that he would then experience. The sadness and activeness of this song instils an emotional appeal yet added with much simplicity in it's making
5000 Miles is a song describing the departure of lovers countries apart. It describes the loss of one man from his love and the feeling that he would then experience. The sadness and activeness of this song instils an emotional appeal yet added with much simplicity in it's making
Sweet Dreams
The song speaks a tale about a woman who dreams of her lover whom she never met in her dreams. With every night the lover appears in her dream, but when she wakes up, she is back to the real world. She has never met the lover in the real world, only in her dream world. With every night coming, she looks forward to seeing him again in her sleep. And while they have their time in their dreams, they refuse to wake up and get back to the real world, fearing that one night they would not dream of each other again
The song speaks a tale about a woman who dreams of her lover whom she never met in her dreams. With every night the lover appears in her dream, but when she wakes up, she is back to the real world. She has never met the lover in the real world, only in her dream world. With every night coming, she looks forward to seeing him again in her sleep. And while they have their time in their dreams, they refuse to wake up and get back to the real world, fearing that one night they would not dream of each other again
Peaches’ Way
Peaches' Way is an enchanting song, developed in a cultural yet modern chill-out 'feel'.
Sad yet soothing, this track appeal with sweet melodies and an ancient distant atmospheric presence.
Representing an ancient Chinese scenery of peaches and trees, one cannot discard the forces of nature that do encompass a significant track as this
Peaches' Way is an enchanting song, developed in a cultural yet modern chill-out 'feel'.
Sad yet soothing, this track appeal with sweet melodies and an ancient distant atmospheric presence.
Representing an ancient Chinese scenery of peaches and trees, one cannot discard the forces of nature that do encompass a significant track as this
Wind Of Dreams
The most popular song on stage performances for Sleeper's Tale LP
The most popular song on stage performances for Sleeper's Tale LP
Mystic Flames
Deep in a dark historical cave, a caveman watches lavishly at a yelowish ball of fire.
Enclouded in a hallucinating daze, flames dancing in ancient tribal motions.
A ghostly image of unknown origin evolves, swirling into the caveman's mind. Enchanted by images of wild animals and archealogical landscapes, the caveman starts to paint
Deep in a dark historical cave, a caveman watches lavishly at a yelowish ball of fire.
Enclouded in a hallucinating daze, flames dancing in ancient tribal motions.
A ghostly image of unknown origin evolves, swirling into the caveman's mind. Enchanted by images of wild animals and archealogical landscapes, the caveman starts to paint
Storm
Comfort we live in our daily lives, where nothing is happening, but something is really going on. Another place far away, people are dying, disasters are climaxing, situations we don't see, scenarios we don't face. So, we live on our comfortable lives, threading on luxury, yearning for more greed, for more advantages, living in a self-denial from what we can know.
Comfort we live in our daily lives, where nothing is happening, but something is really going on. Another place far away, people are dying, disasters are climaxing, situations we don't see, scenarios we don't face. So, we live on our comfortable lives, threading on luxury, yearning for more greed, for more advantages, living in a self-denial from what we can know.
Netherland
Netherland here doesn't symbolize the country, but rather, speaks of the journey to the Nether World. A love story of woman who refuses to leave after death, wanting to bring the lover along with her so they could be together
Netherland here doesn't symbolize the country, but rather, speaks of the journey to the Nether World. A love story of woman who refuses to leave after death, wanting to bring the lover along with her so they could be together
Sideline
Evanescence vs Portishead, this techno style Rock track was created way differently back in 1999 when it was performed by Calvin's Ex-band, Arrowclaw, in funk. The song talks about the feelings of a man, in anguish, as he is left on the side, facing a one sided relationship
Evanescence vs Portishead, this techno style Rock track was created way differently back in 1999 when it was performed by Calvin's Ex-band, Arrowclaw, in funk. The song talks about the feelings of a man, in anguish, as he is left on the side, facing a one sided relationship
Li
Li is an oriental east/west style made unique to create a new blend of world and electronic music. The story speaks of an estrangled love between a rich aristocrat lady with her poor uncultured lover. Both decides to leave their homes into a landscape of mountains and fields, surviving the poverty but free from the tiresome regulated world they were brought up from. Yet the lady sings in serenity hills, while her husband toils in the fields, working hard to build a family and living the cause of love
Li is an oriental east/west style made unique to create a new blend of world and electronic music. The story speaks of an estrangled love between a rich aristocrat lady with her poor uncultured lover. Both decides to leave their homes into a landscape of mountains and fields, surviving the poverty but free from the tiresome regulated world they were brought up from. Yet the lady sings in serenity hills, while her husband toils in the fields, working hard to build a family and living the cause of love