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Artist
白水
12+ albums
folkchineseneofolkambientdark folk
about
Born in a small Sichuanese city, 白水 (Baishui) is a composer and self-taught musician who plays guitar, piano and many traditional Chinese instruments. His earliest original compositions and performances were influenced by European neo-folk and dark ambient strains, but has expanded widely his musical canvas since. With neo-folk project Bloody Woods, experiment-in-randomness One Day In A Quark and under his own name, Baishui has been crafting intelligent and creative music across many genres, with musical inputs ranging from traditional Sichuanese folk ballads to 70s prog rock, atmospheric post-rock and beyond. Though his music was first rooted in Western rock and folk, Baishui was soon drawn to his own cultural traditions, which he employed in the creation of a distinctly Chinese neo-folk music. His 2007 release, Time, which was nominated for several mainstream music awards, is a mild, elegant and melancholic work imbued with a nostalgic look back at his hometown and a combination of traditional southwestern Chinese musical elements and his own unique singing style. 2008‘s Winter, meanwhile, was mainly instrumental but still creates a dark and altered form of folk that remained distinctly rooted in Chinese traditional music. 2009’s Rain Comes saw Baishui employ Sichuanese dialect in an effort to further delve into his roots, and the result is a folk album bursting at the seams under the weight of the millennia of traditions contained within. 2011 saw the release of two ve
