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I keep coming back to this, in its perfect resonant harmony. This album finds the soul of an idea and is consumed by it. Some of the most beautiful expansions on field recordings as have ever been captured.
Favorite track: Rains lit by neon.
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2x silver vinyl edition. Packaged in reverse board sleeve. Limited to 150 copies only.
Includes unlimited streaming of Xièxie
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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2LP black vinyl edition
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
2x black vinyl edition. Packaged in reverse board sleeve. Limited to 150 copies only.
Includes unlimited streaming of Xièxie
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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2CS edition
Cassette + Digital Album
Double cassette edition. 2x tapes in jewel cases packaged in an oversized slipcase.
Note: Since this is an odd-sized item, please order alone. Cannot be packaged with CDs or LPs. Thank you.
Attention: Shipping to some countries from Japan is currently suspended by the Japan Post, so if you order from outside Japan, please be patient. I will ship as soon as things are running normally again, and it is safe to do so. Thank you for your patience.
Includes unlimited streaming of Xièxie
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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2LP deep red vinyl edition
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
2x deep red vinyl edition. Packaged in reverse board sleeve. Repress limited to 200 copies only.
This item starts shipping tentatively on October 1, 2020.
Includes unlimited streaming of Xièxie
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Test Pressing (Edition of 4)
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
White label test pressing, comes in brown paper sleeve. Edition of 4.
Includes unlimited streaming of Xièxie
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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LAST COPIES SALE 2CD edition
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
2x CD edition. Packaged in reverse board, 6-panel sleeve. Limited to 500 copies.
Attention: Shipping to some countries from Japan is currently suspended by the Japan Post, so if you order from outside Japan, please be patient. I will ship as soon as things are running normally again, and it is safe to do so. Thank you for your patience.
Includes unlimited streaming of Xièxie
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Phonetic script: Xièxie
Chinese characters: 谢谢
谢谢 ( xiexie / xièxie ) is composed of these characters: 谢 (xie) , 谢 (xie)
English translation: thank you, thanks
to say | to thank | literally means 'thanks'. 'Thank you' in Chinese would be xièxie nĭ (if you thank an individual), or xièxie nĭmen (to say thank you to a group of people).
- Chinese -> English Dictionary
A week before leaving, I bought a dictionary and phrasebook.
Covered in rain, during the days and even the nights, Shanghai was lit in a glow, a mist turning to a constant grey fog. Buildings lined with neon and lcd screens flashed, and from around corners and behind buildings, the night was illuminated much the same as the day. Cars separated the classes, their horns voices punctuating the streets, as pedestrians in groups loosely scattered the streets, talking and walking on speakerphone.
Standing by the metro escalators, there in the square with the overhanging trees of a park, there is construction all around. The buildings seem to be climbing into the darkness at this very moment. Leaving behind and moving forward. We seem to know everything already, our illusion of experience. I imagine taking your hand, I imagined taking your hand, and the lights in the subway flicker as we go deeper. Transit bookmarks each experience, every daydream, and in the end they're interchangeable and indistinguishable between reality and imagination. Try to remember which is real.
To Hangzhou the maglev reached 303 km/h, the towering apartment buildings hunch under construction, passing by in blurs on the flat farmland landscape. I fell asleep, as you were dancing but to no music. The lilies on the lake nodded in the rain, dipping into the water. There was a Wal-Mart near the hotel where I won a pink bunny from a claw machine. I remember the beauty of the architecture of Hangzhou station, birds swirling around the pillars near the top, the echoes of the deep station interior, and the laughing at being lost. There at least we have each other, that memory, or that daydream.
Everything moves faster than we can control. Days are just flashes, moments are mixed up but burned on film, and all of the places and times are out of order. If it could only be us, only ours. If it was ours, if it was us. Sometimes everything goes faster than you can control and you can't stop, much less understand where you are. I bought a dictionary and phrasebook, but "xièxie" was the only word I ever got to use.
Note: If you are confused about the reason for the "uncut" versions, it is because when streaming from Bandcamp and some other laggy players, the website loading time between tracks will cause a skip, and the uncut version allows you to bypass that.
Part 1 and Part 2 are not joined together because they are two different parts.
credits
released January 24, 2019
Xièxie is available as a 2LP edition of 300 copies, 150 silver and 150 black, a 2CD, 6 panel package edition of 500 copies, and a 2CS oversized slipcase edition of 150 copies.
Download includes bonus 2-track, uncut version of the full album.
Design by Rutger Zuydervelt
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu
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As a few others have pointed out, this album has gotten me through the past few months with a calming and nurturing soundscape... looking forward to having the first 4 tracks on vinyl finally... wish I could hang out with everyone else who posted a comment about this album... muthubuntu
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