Ghosts of Shanghai in Electric Bloom: Adai Song’s Sonic Journey
There is something almost alchemical about “The Bloom Project,” the new album by Adai Song (also known as her electronic moniker ADÀI), a Beijing–NYC musician who chooses to treat tradition not as relic, but as living flesh. The record presents itself as a feminist reawakening of shidaiqu, that smoky 1920s […]