Painful Clown & Ninja Tiger - Wang Wen - Vinyl LP Record (Arrives in 50 days)

Wang Wen’s new album “Painful Clown & Ninja Tiger” is named after the traditional Chinese method of chronology year naming; 2021 & 2022 - Xin-Chou & Ren-Yin. The two years just passed by. This is a record of Wang Wen’s life experience of the past two years. The sexagenarian cycle of the Chinese calendar is like the 10-against-12 polyrhythm in music. Two separate paths that travel six times through the Heavenly Stems and five times through the Earthly Branches and then reunite. However, this is just a superficial interpretation. The reality is the dark side has been approaching and countless miserable accidents occurred in front of us. All the savage and dictatorship come back, repeating itself over and over again in a dead loop in the history, which becomes less distant and fuzzy nowadays. They are not just ‘years’, ‘people’ or ‘places’, that we read in books. They jump out suddenly in front of us, turning into vivid and bare details that we are confronted with every day. Merging influences of psychedelica, movie themes, dark jazz and prog, Wang Wen uses their melodic and dynamic post-rock music to spread a message; “Music could create some positivity for those who are in sorrow and in difficulty. We feel like that is the true meaning of our music. To a world in confusion this new album allows the listener to find hope in texture and melody”. Wang Wen still build their engrossing songs over epic, brass loaded, orchestral arrangements oozing with creativity and rhythmical finesse!

Label: Pelagic | Origin: Holland

📌 .. Tiger