{"title":"Lucinda Chua","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLucinda Chua is a multi-talented artist known for her musical prowess and photography skills. She has showcased her cello-playing abilities on a tour with Stars Of The Lid, captivating audiences with her melodic talent. In addition to her musical endeavors, Lucinda also expresses herself through the lens of a camera, capturing moments in time through her unique perspective. With an impressive portfolio and diverse range of artistic abilities, Lucinda Chua continues to make waves in the creative world.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"yian","title":"YIAN","description":"\u003cp\u003eLondon-based artist Lucinda Chua releases her debut solo album \u003ci\u003eYIAN \u003c\/i\u003evia 4AD. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf Chua’s 2022 release \"Golden,\" written from the perspective of her younger self,  was the meditative prelude to the world of YIAN, then her new single “Echo” places us firmly in its first chapter. A pop song about ancestral trauma, “Echo” is the antihero’s journey, walking the line between respect for the past and the freedom to carve out a new future. (“I won’t carry your shame \/ Won’t be your echo again… I couldn’t be anyone else \/ I look to you, I see myself”). Chua delivers with her uniquely intimate, yet otherworldly sound in this self-produced and engineered song, capturing sensuous echoing harmonies and delicate soul-infused piano.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing intensive studies in Chinese dance forms, Chua joined forces with film director Jade Ang Jackman and movement director Chantel Foo to create the visual for “Echo”; Chua’s take on a choreographed pop MV. The short film is a moving and innovative homage to Chinese fan dance and martial arts; an internal journey through the shifting seasons of emotional weather. Grounded by a stone circle, Chua dances with her handmade Chinese silk fans as the mood shifts from thorny rose garden to blizzard. “Sometimes I think we are all just footprints in the snow,” Chua says.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“YIAN” (燕), means swallow in Chinese, and is part of “Siew Yian,” the name given to Chua by her parents to preserve her connection with her Chinese heritage. Just as the migratory songbird lives between places, so did Chua, the artist living in the in-between of the English, Malaysian and Chinese cultures that make up her heritage. In the absence of Mandarin as a mother tongue, music became a way to express the parts of herself that couldn’t be described in words; “YIAN” emerged as a way to heal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA deeply introspective and fully realized vessel of creative expression (Chua self-produced and engineered eight of the ten tracks), “YIAN” emerges as less an album than a worldview, a commitment to learning and uncovering one’s own selfhood honed over Chua’s lifelong reconciliation with her own personal history and identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough this process she found new language through which to express her experiences, language which lay in the practices she developed and the creative community with whom she built solidarity along the process: co-authoring visual identities with main collaborators Tash Tung, Jade Ang Jackman and Nhu Xuan Hua and set designers Lydia Chan, Jonquil Lawrence and Erin Tse. Chua also constructed the album’s physical language through dance with movement directors Chantel Foo and Duane Nasis, this expression shown most vividly through the short film made for “Echo,”.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"4AD","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50482786009419,"sku":"2008482","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50482787942731,"sku":"2008484","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Lucinda_Chua_Album_packshot_77cbbfd8_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727555967"},{"product_id":"antidotes","title":"Antidotes","description":"\u003cp\u003eLucinda Chua is a singer, songwriter, composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist based in South London. Primarily using her voice, a cello, and an array of effects units, Chua writes ambient pop songs that are intimate, atmospheric, and totally enchanting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhilst studying photography at university in Nottingham, Chua took an elective course in music production and the resulting experimental tracks she created and uploaded online caught the attention of US label kranky. Before long she was touring with Stars of the Lid as a cellist and string arranger and went on to release two albums with her first band Felix – all while barely into her 20s. After Felix broke up, Chua spent a few years in London exploring the city’s creative scene and began experimenting with the cello. Those explorations became her 2019 debut EP \u003ci\u003eAntidotes 1\u003c\/i\u003e which flitted between hushed songwriting and expansive textural soundscapes and was released shortly before she joined FKA twigs’ live band for her Magdalene tour. Earning praise from Pitchfork, The Guardian, Dazed and gal-dem, Antidotes 1 led to Chua participating in NTS Radio’s Work In Progress scheme as well as performing one-person shows across the UK and Europe including Red Bull Music Festival London, MUTEK Barcelona, Tate Modern and Somerset House.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA sister release to \u003ci\u003eAntidotes 1, Antidotes 2\u003c\/i\u003e expands Chua’s unique sonic vocabulary, with subliminal textures that bleed into each other before fading away. If \u003ci\u003eAntidotes 1 \u003c\/i\u003ewas Chua building the landscape and scenery for her music, then \u003ci\u003eAntidotes 2\u003c\/i\u003e is her living within it. 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