Xiao Yun

Purple Garden

紫楽園 = Purple Garden

4:57

甘美的夢 = Sweet Dreams

4:53

綠島小夜曲 = Green Island Serenade (Oriental Jazz Mix)

5:41

竹樂聖誕節 = Bamboo Christmas

7:07

紫楽園(環境楽奏版) = Purple Garden (Ambience Mix)

5:04

夜来香 = Ye Lai Xiang (Deep-Relax Mix)

6:36

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EM Records (EMC-020)
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1x Vinyl LP Album Reissue Stereo

Electronic, Pop, Synth-pop, Ambient, Experimental

Date: 5 avr. 2023, Japan

0riginally released on CD-only in 1994 and recently reissued by Osaka’s EM Records, Purple Garden is a hidden gem featuring futuristic ambient-Mandarin pop from Shanghai-born vocalist Xiao Yun Wu. Produced by Henry Kawahara, who is known as a master of “cyber-occult” music which blended supernatural spirituality with futuristic technology, the album transports listeners to a “sparkling future” filled with electronic percussion, keyboards, and guitar along with digital bamboo flute and other traditional folk instruments. Xiao Yun’s ethereal vocals clearly draw from a traditional Mandarin pop and Chinese folksong background making the pairing with Kawahara’s experimental and often quite trippy production all that much better.

XIAO YUN
Purple Garden (reissue)
EM Japan