Attention: we won't be able to ship our orders between Feb 3 to 18 due to the China New Year holiday. Wish everyone becomes wealthy in the year of Dragon. Kung Hei Fat Choy :)
Includes unlimited streaming of A Random Walk in the Park 漫走公园
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 18 days
Purchasable with gift card
$13USDor more
Streaming + Download
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Park, a fascinating spatial concept. The moment you set foot in a park, a generalised sense of greenery delineates a clever separation - even a cramped concrete playground shadowed by buildings around is a little more isolated from the loudness of the city, when decorated with a wooden plank saying "Park". Put on your headphones and play the cassette of "A Random Walk in the Park" with your Walkman, and you will feel quite similar.
As an audio "supplement" to the inaugural issue of Supplementary Materials(《补充资料》), this compilation is conceptualised from the textual and visual elaboration of the "park" theme and goes beyond to build a smooth-flowing and spatial path that conjures dimensional complexities. Imagine you are invited on a ramble, which lifts your spirit off from the magazine pages and leaps into a spacetime that's no longer bound by the gravity and the ordinary experiences of linear reading, listening and even sightseeing.
Tripping in and out of reality, the eight distinctive musicians sculpted their unique soundscapes using a wide range of music elements: ambient, techno, dub, electro-acoustic improvisation, noise, experimental and even garbage-can-banging post-punk... the sounds or ideas they dwell in are all directly inspired by or sampled from their local parks and are modulated with extra playfulness and a surreal aesthetic which is evoked by the fun slide ride of frequencies.
5 of the bié Records artists - Hualun, Otay:onii, Rainsoft, Sun Dawei and Yangfan, as well as 3 friends of the label - DFU, Wu Zhuo Ling and Simon Frank who work along the lines of "publicity" and "openness" all tapped into the essence of parks, and by no coincidence, resonated with Supplementary Information's motto of "Free yet traceable." The insights into everyday things from a new perspective are just like a thoughtful glimpse through a flower-shaped window in a park - full of humanistic ingenuity and wit.
bié Records 的 5 位合作音乐人花伦、Otay:onii 施金豆、Rainsoft、孙大威、杨帆,以及 3 位厂牌的音乐人好友 DFU、吴卓玲和 Simon Frank 在公园 “公共” “开放” 的概念下,不无巧合地踏中了《补充资料》 “自由而有迹可循” 的路线。那些对日常事物全新角度的洞见,正如透过公园 “花窗” 时有心的一瞥 —— 充满着人文的巧思与智趣。
credits
released June 24, 2022
策划/出品/produced by - 孟金辉 Meng
执行/设计/designed by - 吴卓 Tom Ng
插画/illustrations - 陆冉 Luran (instagram@luranlouane)
中英文简介/bio written by - 张亦飞 Ivan Zhang
母带制作/Mastered at - Brandenburg Mastering
supported by 8 fans who also own “A Random Walk in the Park 漫走公园”
This, friends, is my only reported “favorite album of 2021.” This album- granted, an anthology- has so many textures. I noted in a 3-track ‘spanse being reminded of Four Tet (albeit beatless), Trepaningritualen (plus harmonica), and Acid Mothers Temple (sans guitar). The Sonologyst is a curatorial genius. Creativity rules this world. cielocanth
Rhythmic, low-end-heavy meditations influenced by funk, jazz, psych, French soundtracks, and—contrary to the LP's name—dub electronics. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 1, 2024
Portland beat maker Paul Dickow does right by dub techno under his Strategy moniker, bridging immersive listening with immediate impact. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 1, 2023