Shang Can (vinyl)

“Shang Can” is named after the Chinese words, ”殇残”, meaning the remnants of the injured.
This album, su dance110's first solo LP, is the daughter of the stage performance “Gentle Brutality” (2021) written and directed by Dan Su (www.dancesu.com/gentle-brutality) which speaks about the homelessness of the marginalised.

The music has transformed to express su dance110's personal voice. As home becomes undefinable amid questions of belonging, speaking a language that feels like home becomes the remedy for healing. It’s their fantasy language, a foreign tongue infused with poetry in music. The singing arises from memories of voices that haunted them, reminiscent of the ethnic cultures in Yunnan. As a unique blend of the ancient and contemporary, the layering of polyrhythms and vocals is combined with the cross-genre motives of IDM, hip-hop, drones, noise, industrial and folk, woven by the original samples that were generated from the recordings of su dance110’s experimental metal performances.

Resonating with Heiner Goebbel’s “Landschaft mit entfernten Verwandten”, this album is a compilation of broken journeys. Here, they dream of, search for, run, and long for the faraway... mehr


Music composed, recorded, produced and mixed by su dance110

Mastered by Rashad Becker
Artwork by Dan Su

Track list:

1. 111111101 Int(R)o

2. 111011111 Lost Field

3. 101111111 Ash 02:49

4. 101111111 C 残殇

5. 111101111 Night Warrior

6. 111111101 Icky 03:00

7. 111111101 Dancer

8. 111110111 Fishbird

9. 101111111 Faded Armour