Tag: Mingjia Chen
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Lucy Liyou – Every Video Without Your Face, Every Sound Without Your Name

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Over a series of acclaimed and elliptical records, Lucy Liyou seems to have traced the outline of several possible careers. Welfare and Practice - albums so of a piece that they were soon bundled up by American Dreams Records - featured text-to-speech snippets of a diaristic and starkly confessional nature, whether reflecting on family history or setting the listener...

mingjia – star, star

Albums
Four years in the making, for her first full-length album on New Amsterdam Records the composer and vocalist Mingjia Chen presents a collection of through-composed songs which still carry the discursiveness and formal spontaneity of recitative or more melismatic arioso. Half-scrawled thoughts and ribboned reflections tie together in a manner at once reminiscent of Broadway or the opera, chamber...