Li Jian 6th Album
Li Jian
Chinese singer-songwriter Li Jian continues to breathe life into lyrical mid-tempo tracks with his exquisite pipes, picking up where he left off with his breakout fifth album, Classic, which earned a clutch of nominations at last year’s Golden Melody Awards, including for Best Mandarin Album.
Many of the songs evoke the natural world such as Deep Sea Search, Beautiful As Dawn and Wind Blows At Dusk. The imagery is apt given that one can easily imagine his voice in such settings.
It can be as gentle as a sunbeam, as bright as a sparkling sea or it can take flight on a gust of wind. He croons on Disappearing Moonlight: “When I welcome the fragrance the spring wind brings/How I wish you could linger by my side.”
There are darker undercurrents as well. On Fog, he sings: “Your place is like the ocean/ Some struggle and sink to the bottom, never heard of again.”
That is a fate that seems unlikely to befall Li. He is touring China and maybe the wind will blow him to Singapore’s shores someday soon.
(ST)