Artist EPK Press Kit - Haotian
“Decorated with sophisticated field recordings and inventive production techniques, The Bridge in The Mountain's Hands (A Travelog) is a snapshot of a young artist successfully developing his sensibilities and talents in environmental ambience and candid acoustic balladry.”
No Transmission
“I'm liking this blend of warm electronics & Asiatic acoustic instrumentation with its almost New Age vibes. It's a bit of an album anomaly as the rest of the tracks flirt around singer songwriter & folk rock genres, but I have to admit to being drawn to it as it's a rare slice of underground Chinese music infiltrating the West.”
The Slow Music Movement
“Combining Chinese folk music, ambient, & spoken-word poetry, Haotian has made a gorgeous, enveloping travelogue.”
Bandcamp "New and Notable"
150 Words Bio
Haotian Wang is a musician and sound artist from Yunnan, China. His music blends ambient pop, folk, field recordings and spoken words. Haotian’s songwriting combines immersive soundscape and visceral lyricism, creating an evocative and introspective listening experience that transports audiences through spaces and time zones.
Haotian's debut album, The Bridge in The Mountain's Hands (A Travelog) (2022), interweaves Chinese folk music, ambient, and spoken word poetry, receiving recognition as “Bandcamp New and Notable Album.” He has performed across New York, Chicago, and Shanghai, including Elastic Arts as part of the Chicago Laboratory for Electro-Acoustic Theatre (CLEAT), Zhou B Art Center, Breaking Sounds Unpublished Series, Laichill, and Baixin Bookstore.
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2024 NEW ALBUM: STORY OF THE LEAVES - PRESS RELEASE
Following his 2022 debut album The Bridge in The Mountain’s Hands (A Travelog), Haotian returns with the sophomore album Story of the Leaves. This new collection of travelogs transports listeners through cities and townships, days and nights.
Kunming, Mengzi, Jinping, New York, Shanghai, Berlin, Chicago… Moving between places has nourished his creative work. From ring roads to empty freeways, the East Coast to the Rhine River, these places hold different symbolic meanings for him. As he navigates his own life stories while traveling and living in different cities and continents, he observes the encounters and stories along the way, and how the ever-changing surroundings made him reconstruct the relationship between people, time, and space.
With "Story of the Leaves," Haotian’s songwriting involves a blend of ambient pop, indie folk, Chinese folk-inspired music, with sparkles of field recordings, found sounds, and spoken words. His space-poem-inspired, temporal, and visceral lyricism remains a constant, creating an immersive sonic experience for listeners. The album encompasses 9 original songs written over the course of 2020 to 2023, witnessing the transition of solitary bedroom production to dynamic studio collaborations with musicians around the world. Over half of the album features Haotian’s friends and collaborators: instrumentalists, audio engineers, performers he met in New York and Chicago.
"Story of the Leaves" draws inspiration from Haotian's special interdisciplinary project, "Tea Room," which encompasses sound, poetry, installation, and a multi-sensory performance combining tea ceremony and music. As he toured and performed in Chicago and New York, he realized his role as a performer and storyteller. Through these performances, he seeks shared connections between city and nature, Eastern and Western philosophy, sound art and music. By interweaving these dualities into a collective “story,” Haotian celebrates the idea of connection and exchange—artistically, culturally, and geographically. The worlds are not that far apart, and our story unfolds together.
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