This album was recorded in Shanghai in 2024 and completed in Beijing in 2025. The Shanghai recordings are imbued with an eerie sense of multiple spaces compressed into a single moment in time: This includes Yan Jun’s vocals echoing within a small room, fictional narratives and reverberations within Ryu Hankil’s Max/MSP patch ⑥, and a cacophony of outdoor street sounds interspersed with MAI mai’s occasional guitar practice. Later, before their concert in Beijing, they spent a few days at Mount Changbai. During this time, a shift in their collaboration became palpable, with the woody sounds emanating from Ryu Hankil’s ⑧ and Yan Jun’s shaman-like voice returning to a kind of primal ritual.

While this is not a professional studio album, it is a unique, unpolished work presented in its raw form.

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Yan Jun is a Beijing-based musician and poet. He previously released ‘it works’ (Alone-002) on Aloe Records, and his creative materials range from electronic feedback to plastic bags. He is also an experienced vocal performer. In recent years, there has been a significant change in his vocal performances, with his vocal cords vibrating like feedback — or perhaps one could say that they resemble the voice of a ‘human object’. Ryu Hankil is a computer musician, improviser and writer based in Seoul. His work revolves around sound writing and sonic fiction. His exploration of how an object’s inherent vibrations can constitute a musical context has led him to realise that sonic thinking has the power to create diverse forms of fiction.