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3x12"
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PUBLIC 036LP
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Part I (Disc 1): The Taiwanese artist Yutie Lee covers six Chinese folk songs about flowers. "Tuberosa", "Rose", "Jasmine", "Plum Blossom", "Orchids", and "Chamomile" all are odes to the beauty of the plant. The flower also being a metaphor for something you are desperately longing for, but can never quite get. However, you may want to interpret the songs, they are all telling a story of something pure and indestructible. In the end nature will prevail? Romantic thoughts created in a time long before the current state of the world. By artificially mutating her voice, Yutie Lee successfully manages to transfer the songs into 2020's arguably much more complex, dystopian reality. She does this not without a bow to the past, prevailing something of the original songs' sweet essence, even adding a layer of humor... in the end leaving the listener with a feeling of good hope.
Part II (Disc 2-3): To complete the package, Yutie Lee's versions have been remixed by Alva Noto, Bell Towers, Laura Groves, Oceanic, and Suzanne Kraft.
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