su dance110 - Shang Can

Shang Can is named after the Chinese words, ”殇残”, meaning the remnants of the injured. This album, su dance110's first solo LP, is the daughter of the stage performance Gentle Brutality (2021) written and directed by Dan Su which speaks about the homelessness of the marginalised.

The music has transformed to express su dance110's personal voice. As home becomes undefinable amid questions of belonging, speaking a language that feels like home becomes the remedy for healing. It’s their fantasy language, a foreign tongue infused with poetry in music. The singing arises from memories of voices that haunted them, reminiscent of the ethnic cultures in Yunnan. As a unique blend of the ancient and contemporary, the layering of polyrhythms and vocals is combined with the cross-genre motives of IDM, hip-hop, drones, noise, industrial and folk, woven by the original samples that were generated from the recordings of su dance110’s experimental metal performances.

Resonating with Heiner Goebbel’s Landschaft mit entfernten Verwandten, this album is a compilation of broken journeys. Here, they dream of, search for, run, and long for the faraway. What seems out of reach becomes their status of being. It narrates rolling journeys throughout the landscape and a world of its own, expressing deep emotions with various shades of darkness, lightness, hills and valleys. Simultaneously intimate, vital, raw, grainy, and soulful, it reveals the truth of su dance110 amidst chaos. 

Biography

Dan Su (aka su dance110) is a Berlin based, innovative composer, musician, and performance artist born in Yunnan, China. They work with movement, vocals, electronics, and essentially any raw material capable of generating sound, notably metal. These explorations are then translated into conceptually improvised performances or theme and narrative-oriented music compositions, as defined by the label 3087 Records they founded for "Acoustic Movies." Their background in quantitative methodology and dance/choreography motivates the convergence of extremes in their music, combining radical expression with thoughtful plots. They deconstruct recognizable elements in hip-hop, techno, drone, folk, classical, and vocals that are off the dome, crafting them into highly distinguishable catalogs, as shown in both their solo and collaboration albums: "Game0:110," "Pe-13.or0," "3:33:08," and the upcoming "Shang Can." As a spiritual composer, they find their path by rooting their music in non-music.