With our second collaborative installment along side Kids And The Occult Records, we present Xu Shaoyang’s “River, Stream, Ocean” b/w “Boulder, Stone, Sand.” Xu Shaoyang is an artist & composer hailing from Hong Kong. He has spent years living across the globe, but now operates out of London, UK. He is a mysterious figure that has appeared on Tori Kudo’s Maher Shalal Hash Baz albums over the last couple decades and has sparsely shared live recordings and excerpts from a smattering of infrequent shows. This includes a CD-R on Koji Shibuya’s (Yumbo) imprint, Igloo Records, titled “London Has Let Me Down.” It was recorded in one take in Shibyua’s living room after a show with Yumbo in 2005. Most notably he released two unbelievably beautiful and destructive albums digitally through Cafe Oto’s label, Takuroku, of performances that took place under pedestrian underpasses in Beijing and Taipei. With his latest offering, Xu alongside Tori Kudo and Saiko Ryusui (of Brabrabra) is continuing a thread of equally gorgeous and blasphemous music. It’s loose. It’s free. It’s rapturous. It’s hopeful. It’s bleak. It’s alive. Whether his performances are tender or discordant, he delicately weaves his ideas and imagery through a landscape that bends and breaks, but always reincarnates.