Seippelabel Showcase: Wu Zhuoling

Lineup: Wu Zhuoling, thruoutin, Solent&Hadi, Sosoloid

Date: April 25th, 2019

Time: 9:30

Venue: fRUITYSPACE

Ticket: 60 RMB Presale 70 RMB Door

Address: No. 13 Meishuguan East St., Dongcheng District, Beijing

About the Showcase:

After the 2018 release of Seippelabel Vol. 10 and a thrilling US tour, Seippelabel is back with their first showcase of 2019. The Beijing/Oakland based platform is excited to showcase a night of varying genres and emotions. Much like their compilation series in the past, Seippelabel strives to present a unique selection of artists within China and internationally. Headlining the event will be Chengdu electronic artist, Wu Zhuoling who will be finishing a China-wide tour. In gracious support there will also be live sets by ambient percussive duo, Solent&Hadi and the experimental stylings of Seippelabel’s founder, thruoutin. The night will kick off with a short set by instrumental hip-hop producer Sosoloid. It will be a night of first collaborations with us and some solid mainstays. We invite you to kick off the new season with a night that’s surly one not to miss.

Artist Introductions:

Wu Zhuoling:

With her legendary personal experience and outstanding talent, Wu Zhuoling has become an iconic female artist in the Chinese independent music scene. She combines many roles into one: singer-songwriter, musician, producer, and front-woman of the live electronic band Wednesday’s Trip. She has always been active in live music performance. Her first album “Secret Mission” was made with Wednesday’s Trip and was issued in 2005, but soon thereafter quit the band to move to Tibet. After two years of reclusive life, she returned to her hometown of Chengdu and restarted her music career. She started by refining her personal style and cooperating with various musicians and artists. She has toured all over China and parts of Europe. Zhuoling has released 7 albums/EP's on some influential indie labels in China and has been nominated several times for such awards as Best Female Artist and Best New Electronic Album of The Year in the past.

She had also composed and performed music for the theatre play “13 Million Single Bathtubs” by Taiwanese director Xu Sixian, and engaged in long-distance cooperation with the Dutch media designer You Echo. Besides her own works, she has also produced and mixed albums/EP's for other Chinese indie bands and a hip hop/jazz acts. Through years of experience, she gained a deeper understanding of music and gradually developed her own characteristic style. Whether it is her refreshing acoustic songs or her dark acid electronic pieces, they both try to deeply touch the audience's soul. Her elegant melodies, deep & warm vocals, story-telling lyrics from a female perspective, and a mystic-tranquil atmosphere always give her music a pure and unique quality.

thruoutin:

American born electronic producer and multi-instrumentalist, thruoutin, has been based in China since 2009. His work varies from project to project but often revolves around the combining of different genres with a focus on organic and digital sounds.

He has extensively toured through North America and Asia; releasing music on several labels along the way. Most Recently he has put out work with Beijing labels RAN Music and Jingweir as well as performing on Boiler Room China and playing at festivals such as Wetware and Jiangbei.

Solent&Hadi:

Solent&Hadi is a collaborative project, which is built around spontaneous performances between the two artists that attempt to create a transitory space of sound to exist in for the duration of the performance.

Indian Tabla drummer, guitarist, and stage music creator, Hadi has performed Indian Tabla in Zhang Liangying's "Forgotten Samba Dance", and is a leading lecturer for Meyer Music. He graduated from the Central Conservatory of Music with a major in Music Education and has been a theatre composer since 2005. He also has taken on a role as a music editor for CCTV since 2011. He is presently the musical director for the extraordinary Silk Road Orchestra, in which he takes on the role of composer and performs tabla and cajón. He participated in 35 performances in the national Poly Theatre circuit in 2017 and 2018. His research on electronic music began in 2018. On his musical path, he applies a fusion of elements which may unfold a completed form of his creative concept.

Solent is a British multi-instrumentalist based in the neo-capitalist urban sprawl of Beijing, China since 2008. Synthetic loops, samples, and field recordings all form the foundation of his tracks, presenting ideas which have been extracted from ambient, psychedelic, new age, and drone. Solent has collaborated with a variety of platforms including labels such as Jingweir and Slow Pulse, Spittunes and the Bookworm Literary Festival, as well as taking part in performances curated by Impromptu including the inaugural “Yichang at Home” event.

The collaboration between the two artists focuses on themes related to the internal construct of space which each person exists in, and an inherent vacuum of meaning that is present in the music; the listener may exist in this ephemeral space, and apply their own individual truth to the collaborative piece.

Sosoloid:

Sosoloid is a Beijing based hip-hop producer who goes by such aliases as Orientlic and Zhang Qiji. As a beat-maker and producer, Sosoloid represents his hometown with his inimitable style.

After publishing his first album "Instrumental Beats" in 2011, he began using the moniker Zhang Qiji as his artist name. Over the past eight years, Sosolid has produced for hip-hop artists like Lu 1, It's Good, Wu Shisan, Hei Yang and Ragtag as well as releasing many distinctive works of his own. While constantly studying the techniques of sampling and collage methods, he has gradually turned from traditional hip-hop beats to a broader field of influence in his music production.

In 2015, Sosoloid cooperated with “Mintone Records” and put out an EP named “Rain Wood/Cloud Water” and an album called “8 Beat Tape”, which were both strongly reminiscent of orient styles. Since then, he has further focused on music production with an emphasis on his own style. He recently launched the “Orientlic Sound Project” plan and has published works under this project over the last three years. His album “Only the Sound”, released on January 1st, 2019, was well received by Chinese audiences. Sosoliod’s musical perspective is quite unique and stands out from other artists in the Chinese hip-hop community.