王嘯

Wang Xiao was born in Karamay, Xinjiang in 1966. His parents are oil exploration workers. From childhood, he followed his parents to live and grow up in the wilderness, and Gobi Desert. In 1989 he quitted his oil field job and started traveling as a troubadour. He has lived in Tibet for 10 years and now resides in Yunnan. As Wang Xiao said: "In my memory, there is no home concept, just keep moving from place to place”. The album is clearly not "indie city folk", nor is it "world music". However, after years of immersion in the vein of Central Asian culture, the influence of traditional music from various central Asian regions is obvious. The whole album is dark and deep, like the rocks in the desert. The occasional overtone singing plays well with the dombra tone, the musician is seeking the divine nature of the universe. "Folk singers in the past were poets and sorcerers themselves. They could only sing after divination and sacrifice, or by helping people to predict diseases, fortunes, planting, family affairs. Folk singers should be the ones who atone for the lives."