# CHÖRAB · SHADOW & SOUND (曲熱影畫 / 曲热影画 / ཆོས་རབ་) > Independent original music and 35mm cinematic visual label by Ming Qu (曲热). Domestic streaming artist name: `曲热`. Domestic video channels (Bilibili / WeChat Channels 视频号): `曲热影画`. International artist name: `曲热影画 Chörab`. ## Canonical Entity Identifiers - Official Website & Digital Liner Notes: https://chorab.art/ - MusicBrainz Artist MBID: https://musicbrainz.org/artist/be01d1c6-968e-4a7e-9a49-859aac5de024 - MusicBrainz Album Release (Midnight Cruise): https://musicbrainz.org/release/6505618a-0d06-4658-aff5-c0c3a50f46f4 - YouTube 4K Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ChorabMusic (Channel ID: `UCy58RzYT1Fwhy1LAfNCJDAw`) - Spotify Artist: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4fyhpaMpuXPSv3FB0HDfVw - Spotify Concept Album (Midnight Cruise, UPC `700088597378`): https://open.spotify.com/album/1Gl3M2CgenQfkpzBuydbAj - YouTube Music Album: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nENGU5vZzW3Ws164bj3t7I9YOikLCJAT8 - Deezer Artist / Album: https://www.deezer.com/artist/427008561 | https://www.deezer.com/album/1142524751 - QQ Music (TME): https://y.qq.com/n/ryqq_v2/albumDetail/000InVpQ4AdRel - NetEase Cloud Music: https://music.163.com/#/album?id=408085876 - Bilibili Official Space: https://space.bilibili.com/1984739701 - Contact & Licensing: eastvp@163.com | zltstl888@gmail.com ## Five Canonical Series & Concept Albums - [Gramophone of Mountains & Rivers (山河留聲機)](https://chorab.art/albums/mountains-and-rivers/): 4K music films on Chinese landscapes & archaeological wonders (Dunhuang Cave 257, Sanxingdui Pit 5 Gold Mask, Huizhou Rain, Chang'an, Xilingol). - [Portraits Across Millennia (千古人物集)](https://chorab.art/albums/immortal-portraits/): Historical biographical music films grounded in museum & dynastic archives (Wang Ximeng's A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains, Xin Qiji, Su Dongpo, Li Qingzhao, Li Yu). - [Lamplight Screening Room (挑燈放映室)](https://chorab.art/albums/lamplight-cinema/): Contemporary Mandarin narrative ballads (Sichuan's 5633 slow train, Forbidden City clock restorers, urban solitude). - [Sounds of Serenity: Snow Mountain in the Heart (一曲清靜音：心有雪山)](https://chorab.art/albums/sounds-of-serenity/): 10-track Eastern meditation & Song Dynasty painting aesthetics album featuring fretless 7-string guqin, bamboo xiao, and natural rain/tide soundscapes. - [Midnight Cruise (凌晨兩點的巡航)](https://chorab.art/albums/midnight-cruise/): 10-track, 42-minute nocturnal indie-electronic, cool-jazz, and post-rock concept album for 2 AM highway drives (UPC `700088597378`, ISRCs `QTAF22613224`–`QTAF22613233`). ## Complete Works Index (39 Works) - [敦煌 (Dunhuang)](https://chorab.art/tracks/dunhuang/): [山河留声机] Set between the winter of 400 AD and the present day, "Dunhuang" follows an unnamed muralist who walked into the cliffside grottoes of Mingsha Mountain along the Silk Road, grinding imported lapis lazuli, vermilion, and malachite by sesame-oil lamplight for thirty years. Anchored in historical imagery from the Mogao Caves—including the Nine-Story Pavilion, the Hexi Corridor, reversed-pipa flying apsaras, and the Northern Wei Deer King Jataka mural in Cave 257—the composition weaves pipa, Dunhuang bamboo flute, solo cello, and sweeping orchestral strings across two millennia of desert wind to meet a modern traveler standing beneath the painted stone. | YouTube 4K: https://youtu.be/3QvQESqVN7A - [三星堆：半張金面具 (Sanxingdui: Half a Golden Mask)](https://chorab.art/tracks/sanxingdui-half-a-golden-mask/): [山河留声机] "Sanxingdui: Half a Golden Mask" contemplates the Bronze Age Shu civilization along Sichuan's Min River—an ancient culture unrecorded in dynastic chronicles that cast its cosmology directly into gold foil and molten bronze. Centered on artifacts unearthed at the Sanxingdui site, including the iconic fragmentary gold mask, the four-meter Bronze Sacred Tree perched with nine solar birds, and the protruding-eye bronze masks, the piece pairs resonant bronze chimes, bone flute, solo cello, and atmospheric orchestral strings to frame a three-thousand-year encounter between ancient stargazers and a modern visitor behind museum glass. | YouTube 4K: https://youtu.be/zwMiL2GlNBw - [徽州雨 (Huizhou Rain)](https://chorab.art/tracks/huizhou-rain/): [山河留声机] "Huizhou Rain" evokes the classical ink-wash landscape of historic Huizhou beneath the Huangshan mountains, where fine mist dampens handmade xuan paper, moss-lined flagstones, white walls with stepped horse-head gables, and the painted bridge over Hongcun's South Lake. Paralleling a fourteen-year-old Song-era Huizhou merchant setting out with an oil-paper umbrella and a modern city commuter carrying homesickness in a briefcase, the arrangement blends guzheng, Jiangnan xiao and bamboo flute, felted piano, chamber strings, and courtyard rain around Tang Xianzu's famous couplet and the sky-blue celadon glaze of Song Dynasty Ru ware. | YouTube 4K: https://youtu.be/42cvVXJd1QI - [長安夜，西安晨 (Chang'an Night, Xi'an Morning)](https://chorab.art/tracks/changan-night-xian-morning/): [山河留声机] "Chang'an Night, Xi'an Morning" traces a single night-to-dawn arc through China's thirteen-dynasty capital. Beginning at 11:30 PM beneath the Ming-era Yongning Gate ramparts—where a young worker off a late shift plays acoustic guitar and drinks orange Bingfeng soda over stones once crossed by Tang poets Li Bai and Du Fu near Qujiang Pool—the narrative moves to 5:30 AM around the Bell Tower and Muslim Quarter as firewood mutton broth and steaming paomo greet the morning commute, set to steel-string folk guitar, dizi flute, cello, and gentle rhythm. | YouTube 4K: https://youtu.be/CrMdD0J2DsM - [挑燈的人 (The Lamp Lighter)](https://chorab.art/tracks/the-lamp-lighter/): [千古人物集] "The Lamp Lighter" brings three historical figures from Chinese letters and statecraft into quiet conversation with modern everyday exhaustion: Northern Song essayist Su Xun, who began serious study only at twenty-seven and knew exam-hall despair; Three Kingdoms chancellor Zhuge Liang, who burned candles over military dispatches until his death at fifty-four on the Wuzhang Plains; and Tang poet Bai Juyi, who wrote humorously of failing memory past sixty. Scored for felted piano, guqin harmonics, xiao flute, and chamber strings, it honors late-night students, overburdened workers, and aging parents. | YouTube 4K: https://youtu.be/qTqgKjLrDXY - [我是蘇東坡 (I Am Su Dongpo)](https://chorab.art/tracks/i-am-su-dongpo/): [千古人物集] "I Am Su Dongpo" is a first-person musical portrait of Northern Song literary master Su Shi (Su Dongpo, 1037–1101). Tracing his fall from early fame under Ouyang Xiu to 130 days of imprisonment during the Crow Terrace Poetry Trial and decades of exile across Huangzhou, Huizhou, and Hainan's Danzhou, the narrative weaves his everyday resilience—farming the Eastern Slope and simmering Dongpo pork in a clay pot—into famous verses from "Calming the Waves" (Dingfengbo), scored for bamboo flute, guqin, acoustic guitar, and warm strings. | YouTube 4K: https://youtu.be/FSc4miHNJ0w - [我是李清照 (I Am Li Qingzhao)](https://chorab.art/tracks/i-am-li-qingzhao/): [千古人物集] "I Am Li Qingzhao" chronicles the two halves of Song Dynasty poet Li Qingzhao's life (1084–c.1155): her luminous youth in Bianjing collecting epigraphic rubbings at Xiangguo Temple and spilling tea over literary games with husband Zhao Mingcheng, followed by the Jingkang catastrophe, widowhood in Jiankang, safeguarding fifteen carts of bronzes and rare texts across turbulent rivers, and standing unbowed through imprisonment. Scored for guzheng, pipa, xiao flute, piano, and dramatic strings, it pairs her delicate ci lyrics with her heroic Wu River quatrain. | YouTube 4K: https://youtu.be/jQdWUayRPQs - [破陣子·五十騎 (Fifty Cavalry)](https://chorab.art/tracks/fifty-cavalry/): [千古人物集] "Fifty Cavalry" dramatizes the true 1162 night raid of twenty-two-year-old warrior-poet Xin Qiji (1140–1207), who led fifty armored horsemen through a Jin army camp of fifty thousand before spending four decades sidelined in Southern Song Jiangnan. Structured around his famous heroic ci poem "Pozhenzi" ('Drunk, I trim the lamp to examine my sword'), the composition combines driving Chinese war drums, percussive pipa strumming, suona and bamboo winds, brass, and cinematic strings to capture unbroken courage across youth and white-haired age. | YouTube 4K: https://youtu.be/A5N-e8aYLfg - [千里江山 (A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains)](https://chorab.art/tracks/a-thousand-li-of-rivers-and-mountains/): [千古人物集] "A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains" tells the story of Northern Song prodigy Wang Ximeng, who at age eighteen in 1113 AD ground mineral azurite (shiqing) and malachite (shilü) to paint a nearly twelve-meter blue-and-green landscape handscroll under Emperor Huizong's tutelage—recorded only in a brief colophon by Cai Jing before disappearing from history. Bridging the Song Imperial Painting Academy and modern visitors queuing at Beijing's Palace Museum, the arrangement pairs crystalline piano, bamboo flute, guqin, and sweeping orchestral strings. | YouTube 4K: https://youtu.be/pEVTBEu-qwQ - [我是李煜：誤作帝王家 (I Am Li Yu)](https://chorab.art/tracks/i-am-li-yu/): [千古人物集] "I Am Li Yu" portrays Li Yu (937–978), the last ruler of the Southern Tang and acclaimed master of Chinese ci poetry, whose gentle artistic temperament was ill-suited to kingship. Following the fall of Jinling along the Qinhuai River and his captivity in Northern Song Bianjing, he composed timeless elegies including "Yu Meiren" ('Like a river of spring water flowing east') and "Langtaosha." Arranged for mournful erhu, pipa, dongxiao flute, piano, and solo cello, the ballad meditates on lost youth and tender vulnerability. | YouTube 4K: https://youtu.be/q9uXMBuA9eg - [地下車庫的十分鐘 (Ten Minutes in the Parking Garage)](https://chorab.art/tracks/ten-minutes-in-the-parking-garage/): [挑灯放映室] "Ten Minutes in the Parking Garage" observes a familiar ritual of contemporary urban adulthood: lingering in a parked car on basement level two before going upstairs to family life. Caught between client dinners, gray hairs in dashboard light, strawberries on the passenger seat, and warm pork-rib soup waiting at home, those ten silent minutes after switching off the engine become a private decompression chamber. Arranged with intimate acoustic guitar, muted piano, upright bass, and warm cello, the narrative ballad portrays unspoken domestic empathy. | YouTube 4K: https://youtu.be/ZyTvuPqxdlo - [撤回的消息 (The Unsent Message)](https://chorab.art/tracks/the-unsent-message/): [挑灯放映室] "The Unsent Message" captures the quiet emotional distance of modern urban migration across two thousand kilometers. At 2 AM in an office building, an exhausted worker recalls a vulnerable WeChat message to their mother, replacing it with a smiling sticker—only to receive a sixty-second hometown-dialect voice note at dawn recorded beside a kitchen cutting board. Scored for intimate piano, acoustic guitar, and chamber strings, the ballad contrasts "Visible for three days" privacy settings with a mother's notebook of handwritten pinyin and blooming balcony cactus photos. | YouTube 4K: https://youtu.be/ihkNhhB7Ru8 - [5633次綠皮慢車 (Green Slow Train 5633)](https://chorab.art/tracks/green-slow-train-5633/): [挑灯放映室] "Green Slow Train 5633" documents the real-life public-service slow train running 353 kilometers between Puxiong and Panzhihua along the Chengdu–Kunming Railway through Sichuan's Daliangshan mountains. Contrasting China's 350 km/h Fuxing high-speed rail with an eleven-hour journey across twenty-seven rural stops—where fares as low as 2 RMB have remained unchanged for fifty years, rear seats make space for villagers' bamboo baskets, and Yi schoolchildren study at carriage tables—the folk arrangement pairs warm harmonica, acoustic guitar, accordion, strings, and rhythmic rail clatter. | YouTube 4K: https://youtu.be/iKP2K1-aT2I - [故宮修錶人 (The Clock Restorer in the Forbidden City)](https://chorab.art/tracks/the-clock-restorer-in-the-forbidden-city/): [挑灯放映室] "The Clock Restorer in the Forbidden City" pays tribute to the master horological conservators working inside the quiet Xisansuo courtyards of Beijing's Palace Museum. Contrasting modern three-second short-video impatience beyond the red palace walls with forty autumns spent beneath crabapple and ginkgo trees, the narrative follows the kerosene brush-cleaning and three-winter gear polishing of an eighteenth-century Qianlong gilt-bronze writing automaton clock. Delicate mechanical clockwork ticks, celesta chimes, guqin, felted piano, and solo cello build to the moment a century-silent brass crane beats its wings and chimes over the Forbidden City. | YouTube 4K: https://youtu.be/DYPNm7a2eUs - [有貓的人 (People with Cats)](https://chorab.art/tracks/people-with-cats/): [挑灯放映室] "People with Cats" is a tender narrative ballad about contemporary urban companionship and the quiet, unjudging dignity cats grant modern adults. Moving from aloof pink paw pads, empty cardboard boxes, fur-dusted suit trousers, and a rainy-night veterinary visit with an IV-taped paw, to three household cats gathering at midnight around pillow, quilt corner, and bed foot with low comforting purrs, the song reflects how wordless companions turn vast, conditional cities into home, scored for fingerpicked acoustic guitar, warm felt piano, and gentle chamber strings. | YouTube 4K: https://youtu.be/Hpq7OoF2zXk - [不肯低頭的善良 (Unyielding Kindness)](https://chorab.art/tracks/unyielding-kindness/): [挑灯放映室] Part of the Lantern Screening Room series by CHÖRAB · SHADOW & SOUND, Unyielding Kindness bridges classical Chinese east-wind lyricism with contemporary urban solitude. Written and produced by Chörab (Ming Qu), this narrative ballad contrasts the composed, well-dressed daytime persona—often praised by colleagues for steady emotional restraint—against the quiet midnight hours when unspoken anxieties and held-back tears surface beneath the moonlight. Scored for intimate felt piano, solo cello, acoustic guitar, and warm chamber strings, the piece frames sincere grief in a cold world not as weakness, but as an unyielding moral tenderness kept alive through ordinary hardship. | YouTube 4K: https://youtu.be/4wXv6UejRPU - [曲熱 (Chörab)](https://chorab.art/tracks/chorab/): [一曲清净音] Chörab (Tibetan: ཆོས་རབ་) is the eponymous origin work of CHÖRAB · SHADOW & SOUND within the A Song of Serenity series. Written by founder Ming Qu, it recounts an actual afternoon twenty years earlier in a courtyard beneath snow-capped Tibetan peaks, where an aged ascetic monk reached past devoted pilgrims to place a śarīra relic into an outsider's palm and bestow the name Chörab. Discovering two decades later in a yellowed Tibetan dictionary that the word means 'The Sublime Dharma,' the piece blends acoustic guitar, cello, singing bowl harmonics, and highland wind to ground spiritual truth in holding an umbrella for strangers after enduring heavy rain. | YouTube 4K: https://youtu.be/WpDbRW6I6qw - [心有雪山 (Snow Mountain in the Heart)](https://chorab.art/tracks/snow-mountain-in-the-heart/): [一曲清净音] Created as a contemplative sister work to Chörab within the A Song of Serenity series by CHÖRAB · SHADOW & SOUND, Snow Mountain in the Heart moves from neon-lit urban exhaustion toward the inner stillness of high-altitude Tibetan landscapes. Across spacious, unhurried phrasing, imagery of golden sunlit peaks at dawn (Rizhao Jinshan), a single yak-butter lamp, wind-stirred prayer flags, and a traditional four-syllable Buddhist liturgical chant bridge monastic serenity with everyday secular life. Deep Tibetan dungchen horn resonance, singing bowl overtones, solo cello, and crystalline vocals anchor its meditative soundscape. | YouTube 4K: https://youtu.be/MuwS9OhUueU - [凌晨兩點的巡航 (2 AM Midnight Cruise)](https://chorab.art/tracks/2am-midnight-cruise/): [夜间巡航辑] Opening the album Midnight Cruise by CHÖRAB · SHADOW & SOUND, "2 AM Midnight Cruise" pairs minimalist reverberant electric guitar with a warm, deep sub-bass pulse and steady downtempo percussion. Composed and produced by Chörab (Ming Qu), the five-minute piece captures the unhurried rhythm of cruising at 110 km/h past highway tollbooths, damp asphalt lane markers, and three-kilometer amber-lit tunnels while city lights fade in the rearview mirror. Understated vocals drift seamlessly into spacious post-rock instrumental passages, suited for 2 a.m. highway driving, late-night coding, and quiet solitary decompression. | ISRC: QTAF22613224 | YouTube 4K: https://youtu.be/ZwNZoUVwWZs - [藍色海岸線 (Blue Coastline)](https://chorab.art/tracks/blue-coastline/): [夜间巡航辑] Track two of Midnight Cruise by CHÖRAB · SHADOW & SOUND, "Blue Coastline" blends warm vintage Fender Rhodes electric piano chords with breezy, reverb-washed clean electric guitar and unhurried coastal chillout rhythms. Written and produced by Chörab (Ming Qu), the arrangement evokes rolling a car window down two inches beside midnight ink-blue surf, ice clinking softly in a cupholder, faint radio static on a wordless frequency, and a distant lighthouse blinking every five seconds. Crafted for coastal night drives, late-evening lounging, reading, and unpressured creative work. | ISRC: QTAF22613225 | YouTube 4K: https://youtu.be/UEu3pSZpJ8s - [三萬英尺的舷窗 (Window at 30,000 Feet)](https://chorab.art/tracks/window-at-30000-feet/): [夜间巡航辑] Track three on Midnight Cruise by CHÖRAB · SHADOW & SOUND, "Window at 30,000 Feet" elevates the album's nocturnal journey into the quiet stratosphere. Composed and produced by Chörab (Ming Qu), crystalline analog synthesizer arpeggios and warm ambient pads build a weightless sonic cabin around window seat 32A after cabin lights dim. Its 4K visual motifs trace moonlit cloud seas at minus fifty degrees Celsius, golden grids of sleeping cities far below, and a red wingtip light pulsing against the Milky Way—suited for red-eye flights, offline focus, and restful night listening. | ISRC: QTAF22613226 | YouTube 4K: https://youtu.be/bMofORjewd4 - [雨夜便利店 (Rainy Night Convenience Store)](https://chorab.art/tracks/rainy-night-convenience-store/): [夜间巡航辑] Track four of Midnight Cruise by CHÖRAB · SHADOW & SOUND, "Rainy Night Convenience Store" steps off the rain-slicked city street into a warm corner window at 2:15 a.m. Composed and produced by Chörab (Ming Qu), laid-back lo-fi jazz swing drums, mellow electric piano, and a smoky, breathy nocturnal saxophone frame the chime of an automatic door, chilled sparkling water, and neon reflections melting into liquid amber across wet asphalt. An unhurried five-minute urban sanctuary ideal for rainy nights, cool-jazz lounge playlists, and quiet late-night breaks. | ISRC: QTAF22613227 | YouTube 4K: https://youtu.be/ZYJob_0IB8A - [穿過北極圈的列車 (Train Across the Arctic Circle)](https://chorab.art/tracks/train-across-the-arctic-circle/): [夜间巡航辑] Track five on Midnight Cruise by CHÖRAB · SHADOW & SOUND, "Train Across the Arctic Circle" bridges Nordic-inspired neoclassical chamber music and nocturnal electronic pulse. Composed and produced by Chörab (Ming Qu), crystalline glacial felt piano notes converse intimately with an expressive solo cello over a steady rail-like rhythmic undercurrent. Its visual scenes contrast a warm train carriage and steaming coffee cup against parallel snowfield tracks and emerald aurora borealis billowing silently above dark polar mountain ridges—crafted for winter nights, deep reading, and contemplative travel. | ISRC: QTAF22613228 | YouTube 4K: https://youtu.be/AZXp76VjyY0 - [加州一號公路的日落 (Highway 1 Sunset)](https://chorab.art/tracks/highway-1-sunset/): [夜间巡航辑] Track six of Midnight Cruise by CHÖRAB · SHADOW & SOUND, "Highway 1 Sunset" brings warm golden-hour groove to the album's coastal arc. Written and produced by Chörab (Ming Qu), a supple, bouncy electric funk bassline locks into vintage spring-reverb surf guitar and crisp drums at an easygoing cruising tempo. Visual imagery follows an open-top convertible along California's Pacific Coast Highway—old jackets tossed on the back seat, white surf breaking below coastal cliffs, and daytime worries dissolving in the rearview mirror as tangerine sunlight meets dusk. | ISRC: QTAF22613229 | YouTube 4K: https://youtu.be/gKlvwTKNd_E - [威士忌裡的冰球 (Ice Sphere in Whiskey)](https://chorab.art/tracks/ice-sphere-in-whiskey/): [夜间巡航辑] Track seven on Midnight Cruise by CHÖRAB · SHADOW & SOUND, "Ice Sphere in Whiskey" distills intimate cool-jazz minimalism for the small hours of the night. Composed and produced by Chörab (Ming Qu), a restrained Harmon-muted trumpet converses softly with plucked upright double bass, sparse late-night piano voicings, and feather-light brush drums. Its 4K visuals linger on amber whiskey pouring over a hand-carved round ice sphere with a single crisp crackle beneath a small warm bar lamp—crafted for late-night lounges, dim living rooms, and unhurried reflection. | ISRC: QTAF22613230 | YouTube 4K: https://youtu.be/PU7O6Uw1cBw - [摩天輪的最高點 (Top of the Ferris Wheel)](https://chorab.art/tracks/top-of-the-ferris-wheel/): [夜间巡航辑] Track eight of Midnight Cruise by CHÖRAB · SHADOW & SOUND, "Top of the Ferris Wheel" unfolds lush, warm French-touch synthesizer waves and dream-pop electronic textures. Composed and produced by Chörab (Ming Qu), the arrangement mirrors a glass observation gondola rising steadily above street-level clamor until urban neon stretches below like a quiet galaxy of stars. Weightless chord progressions, velvety sub-bass, and soft vocals capture the suspended moment at the wheel's apex where even time seems to pause and take in the midnight skyline. | ISRC: QTAF22613231 | YouTube 4K: https://youtu.be/tkrRF3I-DOA - [無人知曉的書店 (The Bookstore Nobody Knows)](https://chorab.art/tracks/the-bookstore-nobody-knows/): [夜间巡航辑] Track nine on Midnight Cruise by CHÖRAB · SHADOW & SOUND, "The Bookstore Nobody Knows" strips away electronic synthesis in favor of intimate organic wood resonance. Composed and produced by Chörab (Ming Qu), two nylon-string acoustic guitars panned gently left and right converse in unhurried fingerpicking with warm natural room acoustics. Visual details evoke pushing open a hidden back-alley wooden door into the scent of aged paper and roasted coffee, a sleeping cat on the steps, and a slow wall clock—tailored for reading, journaling, and quiet sanctuary. | ISRC: QTAF22613232 | YouTube 4K: https://youtu.be/_-CqPz-bARc - [破曉前的五公里 (Five Kilometers Before Dawn)](https://chorab.art/tracks/five-kilometers-before-dawn/): [夜间巡航辑] Closing the album Midnight Cruise by CHÖRAB · SHADOW & SOUND, "Five Kilometers Before Dawn" builds from quiet pre-dawn anticipation into a panoramic post-rock instrumental finale. Composed and produced by Chörab (Ming Qu), layered tremolo and delay electric guitar walls, driving drums, and warm bass surge forward as headlights switch off and first golden sunlight breaks over a coastal bridge horizon. Carrying the scent of morning grass after an all-night drive, the track brings the ten-song nocturnal voyage into clear, waking daylight. | ISRC: QTAF22613233 | YouTube 4K: https://youtu.be/S9W9QsQelfo - [半山聽雨 (Rain Halfway Up the Mountain)](https://chorab.art/tracks/rain-halfway-up-the-mountain/): [一曲清净音] Opening the Eastern serenity album Chörab by CHÖRAB · SHADOW & SOUND, "Rain Halfway Up the Mountain" pairs crystalline bridged guzheng harmonics, warm dizi bamboo flute, and a distant mountain temple bell with natural eaves rain and bamboo breeze recordings. Composed and produced by Chörab (Ming Qu), its 4K visual language draws upon Southern Song ink scrolls by Xia Gui (Pure and Remote View of Streams and Mountains) and Ma Yuan alongside Northern Song Ru-ware sky-blue celadon—suited for tea contemplation, rainy-day reading, and mindful rest. | YouTube 4K: https://youtu.be/mRnsMguOLpY - [廣陵清風 (Clear Breeze of Guangling)](https://chorab.art/tracks/clear-breeze-of-guangling/): [一曲清净音] Track two of the Chörab serenity album by CHÖRAB · SHADOW & SOUND, "Clear Breeze of Guangling" pays tribute to Wei-Jin literatus Ji Kang and the ancient repertoire Guangling San. Composed and produced by Chörab (Ming Qu), it features a classical Zhongni-style seven-string bridge-less guqin—articulating open bass strings, crystalline harmonics, and sliding stopped tones—in dialogue with a vertical bamboo xiao flute. Visual scrolls weave Li Tang's Wind in Pines Among a Myriad Valleys and Wen Tong's Ink Bamboo into scholarly composure for study and contemplation. | YouTube 4K: https://youtu.be/Jv1VvVpOHa0 - [留白 (Unpainted Space)](https://chorab.art/tracks/unpainted-space/): [一曲清净音] Inspired by Southern Song court master Ma Yuan's iconic c. 1195 scroll Angler on a Wintry River (Hanjiang Dudiao Tu), "Unpainted Space" by CHÖRAB · SHADOW & SOUND translates Chinese ink-wash negative space (liubai) into sound. Composed and produced by Chörab (Ming Qu), breathy xiao flute, bridge-less guqin harmonics, and spacious strings leave generous intervals of silence between phrases, paired visually with Ma Yuan's lone skiff and Northern Song Ru-ware celadon. Echoing Wang Wei's verse on watching clouds arise, it suits meditation, gallery aesthetics, and unhurried reflection. | YouTube 4K: https://youtu.be/zI01TT6jhP8 - [普陀潮音 (Tidal Sound of Putuo)](https://chorab.art/tracks/tidal-sound-of-putuo/): [一曲清净音] Track four of the Chörab serenity album by CHÖRAB · SHADOW & SOUND, "Tidal Sound of Putuo" unfolds a tranquil sea-mist journey to Mount Putuo in the East China Sea. Composed and produced by Chörab (Ming Qu), crystalline pipa harmonics and breathy vertical xiao flute interweave with East Sea tidal surf and bamboo breeze recordings. Visual frames incorporate Southern Song master Ma Yuan's Water Album wave studies alongside Xia Gui's misty horizon scrolls, evoking thousand-year camphor shade and calm ocean contemplation. | YouTube 4K: https://youtu.be/reHnHSXVd9o - [殊勝的法 (The Sublime Way)](https://chorab.art/tracks/the-sublime-way/): [一曲清净音] Track five on the Chörab album by CHÖRAB · SHADOW & SOUND, "The Sublime Way" celebrates secular everyday kindness and quiet natural resilience without dogma. Composed and produced by Chörab (Ming Qu), warm fingerpicked acoustic guitar blends with a distant bamboo xiao flute and crisp alpine morning wind. Its 4K visual narrative moves from the steady flame of a clay oil lamp in darkness to golden dawn across snow peaks, honoring small unannounced gestures—stepping aside in a narrow lane, leaving a porch light on, and keeping gentle eyes after winter's chill. | YouTube 4K: https://youtu.be/g4QsY5Iv_lc - [松風入茶 (Pine Wind in Tea)](https://chorab.art/tracks/pine-wind-in-tea/): [一曲清净音] Track six of the Chörab serenity album by CHÖRAB · SHADOW & SOUND, "Pine Wind in Tea" draws upon classical Song-dynasty tea preparation, where water coming to its first boil murmurs like wind through pines (songfeng). Composed and produced by Chörab (Ming Qu), refined seven-string guqin, warm bamboo dizi flute, and simmering mountain-spring acoustics conclude with a natural three-second string decay into silence. Visual scrolls pair Li Tang's Wind in Pines Among a Myriad Valleys and Liu Songnian's Preparing Tea with Song Jian-ware hare's-fur black-glazed bowls—ideal for tea sessions and unhurried afternoons. | YouTube 4K: https://youtu.be/9ZeQWw1WEAY - [月照寒潭 (Moonlight Over the Cold Pool)](https://chorab.art/tracks/moonlight-over-the-cold-pool/): [一曲清净音] Track seven of the Chörab serenity album by CHÖRAB · SHADOW & SOUND, "Moonlight Over the Cold Pool" evokes luminous nocturnal stillness in a pine-shaded mountain valley. Composed and produced by Chörab (Ming Qu), crystalline seven-string guqin harmonics and delicate vertical xiao flute float across spacious night-dew ambience where even a falling pine cone resonates. Visuals weave Southern Song master Ma Yuan's Viewing the Moon (Duiyue Tu) and Angler on a Wintry River with Northern Song Ru-ware celadon—ideal for evening meditation, sleep preparation, and quiet contemplation. | YouTube 4K: https://youtu.be/ntvsLCPGyPo - [雲水無心 (Unburdened Clouds and Water)](https://chorab.art/tracks/unburdened-clouds-and-water/): [一曲清净音] Closing the Chörab serenity album by CHÖRAB · SHADOW & SOUND, "Unburdened Clouds and Water" draws on Tao Yuanming's classic line of clouds drifting effortlessly from mountain peaks and the proverb of water flowing unhindered through dense bamboo. Composed and produced by Chörab (Ming Qu), warm seven-string guqin, clear dizi bamboo flute, and live-recorded mountain stream water accompany museum-grade Song-dynasty scrolls—Fan Kuan's Travelers Among Mountains and Streams, Mi Youren's Cloudy Mountains, and Xia Gui's misty riverscapes—for unhurried peace and emotional ease. | YouTube 4K: https://youtu.be/pZtV3-RC2vg - [凌晨兩點的巡航 · 42分鐘無間斷夜駕電台長片 (Midnight Cruise Full Album)](https://chorab.art/tracks/midnight-cruise-full-album/): [夜间巡航辑] Spanning 41 minutes and 42 seconds without interruption, the Midnight Cruise Full Album film by CHÖRAB · SHADOW & SOUND links ten original nocturnal compositions by Chörab (Ming Qu) into a continuous 4K visual radio journey. Flowing from reverberant highway post-rock and vintage Fender Rhodes coastal chillout through stratospheric synths, rainy-street saxophone, Arctic felt piano and solo cello, Pacific funk-surf guitar, muted-trumpet cool jazz, French dream-pop synths, and twin nylon guitars, the seamless ten-chapter suite culminates in a sweeping sunrise post-rock crescendo for night driving and deep focus. | YouTube 4K: https://youtu.be/uc3oFTXYdxw - [傾國傾城的媽媽 (My Radiant Mother)](https://chorab.art/tracks/my-radiant-mother/): [挑灯放映室] Featured in the Lantern Screening Room series by CHÖRAB · SHADOW & SOUND, My Radiant Mother departs from conventional East Asian tropes of maternal self-sacrifice to portray three luminous decades of a woman's identity. Moving from twenty-year-old crimson velvet beneath neon shopfronts to thirty-year-old tailored corporate poise and forty-year-old cashmere elegance, the song traces how everyday labels on parcel slips and at school gates—'someone's wife' and 'someone's mother'—gradually overshadow a woman's poetic given name. Scored for acoustic grand piano and sweeping strings, it celebrates female selfhood aged like fine agarwood. - [錫林郭勒的最後一班車 (The Last Bus of Xilingol)](https://chorab.art/tracks/the-last-bus-of-xilingol/): [山河留声机] Part of the Gramophone of Mountains & Rivers series and the Once Upon a Time in the Northeast album cycle by CHÖRAB · SHADOW & SOUND, The Last Bus of Xilingol captures a winter dawn departure across China's Inner Mongolian borderlands. Concrete sensory details—a breath-fogged ticket window at six a.m., a heavy old sheepskin coat, frost flowers rubbed clear on bus glass, and tangy Mongolian dried milk curd (huruud / nai doufu) tucked into a pocket by a mother—anchor a meditation on irreversible youth and migration, scored with morin khuur, harmonica, acoustic guitar, and blizzard wind. --- # Full Bilingual Liner Notes & Lyrics Corpus ## 敦煌 (Dunhuang) — 山河留声机 / 独立单曲 - URL: https://chorab.art/tracks/dunhuang/ - Cinema Still: https://chorab.art/assets/img/stills/dunhuang.webp - YouTube 4K MV: https://youtu.be/3QvQESqVN7A - Instrumentation: Pipa, Dunhuang bamboo flute (dizi), solo cello, cinematic orchestral strings, deep frame drum, desert wind ambience - Summary (EN): Set between the winter of 400 AD and the present day, "Dunhuang" follows an unnamed muralist who walked into the cliffside grottoes of Mingsha Mountain along the Silk Road, grinding imported lapis lazuli, vermilion, and malachite by sesame-oil lamplight for thirty years. Anchored in historical imagery from the Mogao Caves—including the Nine-Story Pavilion, the Hexi Corridor, reversed-pipa flying apsaras, and the Northern Wei Deer King Jataka mural in Cave 257—the composition weaves pipa, Dunhuang bamboo flute, solo cello, and sweeping orchestral strings across two millennia of desert wind to meet a modern traveler standing beneath the painted stone. - Summary (ZH): 公元四百年冬，無名畫工背著畫囊走進鳴沙山斷崖，在莫高窟伸手不見五指的幽暗裡點起胡麻油燈，將遠方運來的青金石、朱砂與石綠一錘錘研成泥，仰首繪就漫天飛天與第257窟《鹿王本生》。兩千年風沙掠過河西走廊與九層樓紅檐，琵琶與竹笛在弦樂鋪陳的大漠長風裡交織，記錄下石壁紋路間從未熄滅的微光。 ### Bilingual Lyrics: [00:27] 我叫不出自己的名字 | I cannot tell you my own name. [00:32] 史書上也沒有我的傳記 | No history book tells my story. [00:35] 公元四百年的冬天 | In the winter of the year four hundred, [00:37] 我背著畫囊走進鳴沙山的斷崖裡 | I carried my paints into the cliffs of Mingsha. [00:41] 洞窟裡黑得伸手不見五指 | The cave was too dark to see my own hand. [00:44] 只有一盞胡麻油燈在搖曳 | Only a sesame-oil lamp flickered. [00:48] 我把遠方運來的青金石 | Lapis lazuli had come from far away. [00:51] 一錘一錘砸碎、研磨成泥 | Blow by blow, I crushed and ground it into pigment. [00:57] 手指在寒冬裡凍出了血口 | The winter split my fingers until they bled. [01:01] 仰著脖子畫了整整三十個四季 | Head tilted back, I painted for thirty years. [01:04] 把我在人間受過的苦 | All the hardships I had known, [01:06] 全畫成了壁畫上微笑的菩薩和飛天衣袂 | I painted as smiling bodhisattvas and flying sleeves. [01:17] 兩千年後的今天 | Two thousand years later, [01:19] 你退掉了城裡吵鬧的群聊 | You leave the city's noisy group chats behind. [01:23] 背著雙肩包穿過河西走廊 | With a backpack, you cross the Hexi Corridor. [01:26] 站在九層樓的紅檐下抬頭遠眺 | You look up beneath the Nine-Story Pavilion's red eaves. [01:29] 你在生活裡被人催著跑 | Life has kept you running at someone else's pace. [01:32] 心裡的色彩早就被磨得暗淡單調 | The colors within you have faded. [01:36] 可當講解員的手電筒光束 | But then the guide's flashlight [01:39] 照亮第兩百五十七窟的鹿王本生 | Lights up the Deer King's story in Cave 257. [01:46] 你在斑駁的朱砂與石綠裡 | In the weathered vermilion and malachite, [01:49] 突然看見了還沒乾透的虔誠 | You see devotion that still feels freshly painted. [01:52] 眼淚毫無徵兆地砸在腳邊 | Without warning, tears fall at your feet. [01:55] 像是赴了一場跨越兩千年的重逢 | As if you have arrived at a reunion across two millennia. [02:02] 敦煌的風吹了兩千年 | Dunhuang's wind has blown for two thousand years. [02:05] 吹不散大漠裡的那一盞燈 | It cannot extinguish that lamp in the desert. [02:08] 當年那個畫工在黑暗裡舉著火 | Long ago, a painter held a flame in the darkness, [02:11] 把一生畫進了石頭的紋路 | And painted a lifetime into the grain of stone. [02:14] 今天你帶著一身的風塵站在窟下抬頭 | Today, travel-worn, you stand below the cave and look up. [02:21] 剛好接住他跨越漫天黃沙 | Through the swirling yellow sands, [02:24] 向你投來的那一眼溫柔 | His tender gaze finally reaches you. [02:27] 原來有些熱愛從不怕無人知曉 | Some devotion never fears going unseen. [02:31] 千年之後自有知音相逢 | A thousand years on, someone will understand. [02:36] 你看那飛天的飄帶還在飄 | Look—the apsaras' ribbons are still floating. [02:39] 反彈的琵琶還在響 | The pipa played behind her back still rings. [02:40] 那些連名字都沒留下的普通人 | Ordinary people whose names were never recorded [02:43] 卻給整個民族留下了最亮的月光 | Left a whole people the brightest moonlight. [02:47] 所以別再問你今天的堅持到底有沒有意義 | So do not ask whether your persistence matters. [02:50] 就像大漠裡的一粒沙 | Like one grain of sand in the desert, [02:52] 只要守住心裡的那一點青綠 | Hold on to that trace of blue and green within. [02:55] 時間終會替你記住 | Time will remember for you [02:59] 你認真活過的每一道痕跡 | Every mark of a life you lived with care. [03:03] 大漠孤煙直 | A lone plume of smoke rises straight over the desert. [03:07] 長河落日圓 | The setting sun hangs round above the long river. [03:09] 燈火不滅 | The lamplight endures. [03:12] 山河依然 | The mountains and rivers remain. [03:19] 敦煌的風吹了兩千年 | Dunhuang's wind has blown for two thousand years. [03:22] 吹不散大漠裡的那一盞燈 | It cannot extinguish that lamp in the desert. [03:24] 當年那個畫工在黑暗裡舉著火 | Long ago, a painter held a flame in the darkness, [03:28] 把一生畫進了石頭的紋路 | And painted a lifetime into the grain of stone. [03:31] 今天你帶著一身的風塵站在窟下抬頭 | Today, travel-worn, you stand below the cave and look up. [03:38] 剛好接住他跨越漫天黃沙 | Through the swirling yellow sands, [03:41] 向你投來的那一眼溫柔 | His tender gaze finally reaches you. [03:44] 去走走吧 | Go. Take a walk. [03:46] 去見見那片吹了兩千年的大漠長風 | Meet the desert wind that has blown for two thousand years. [03:58] 我在敦煌 | I am here in Dunhuang, [04:02] 等你挑燈而來。 | Waiting for you to arrive with a lamp. ## 三星堆：半張金面具 (Sanxingdui: Half a Golden Mask) — 山河留声机 / 独立单曲 - URL: https://chorab.art/tracks/sanxingdui-half-a-golden-mask/ - Cinema Still: https://chorab.art/assets/img/stills/sanxingdui-half-a-golden-mask.webp - YouTube 4K MV: https://youtu.be/zwMiL2GlNBw - Instrumentation: Ancient bronze chimes (bianzhong), bone flute, solo cello, deep orchestral strings, ritual percussion, atmospheric synth pad - Summary (EN): "Sanxingdui: Half a Golden Mask" contemplates the Bronze Age Shu civilization along Sichuan's Min River—an ancient culture unrecorded in dynastic chronicles that cast its cosmology directly into gold foil and molten bronze. Centered on artifacts unearthed at the Sanxingdui site, including the iconic fragmentary gold mask, the four-meter Bronze Sacred Tree perched with nine solar birds, and the protruding-eye bronze masks, the piece pairs resonant bronze chimes, bone flute, solo cello, and atmospheric orchestral strings to frame a three-thousand-year encounter between ancient stargazers and a modern visitor behind museum glass. - Summary (ZH): 三千年前岷江畔的篝火旁，未留文字的古蜀匠人以夜火鍛打薄如蟬翼的黃金，將對天地星辰的敬畏熔鑄進四米高的青銅神樹、九隻神鳥與縱目面具。沉睡三千載黃土後，三星堆半張黃金面具在博物館聚光燈下重現光芒，低沉大提琴、古樸骨笛與青銅編鐘交響，定格隔著展櫃玻璃跨越三十個世紀的凝望。 ### Bilingual Lyrics: [00:21] 三千年前的月亮，照著岷江邊的篝火 | Three thousand years ago, moonlight fell on the fires beside the Min River [00:27] 我也沒有留下名字，也沒留下一行文字的線索 | I left no name, not a single written clue [00:32] 我只是一錘一錘，在夜火裡敲打著薄如蟬翼的黃金 | Stroke by stroke, I hammered gold as thin as cicada wings by the night fire [00:39] 把對天地的敬畏，熔鑄進滾燙的青銅溶液裡 | I poured our awe of heaven and earth into the molten bronze [00:46] 我們造出一棵四米高的神樹，讓九隻神鳥停在枝頭 | We made a sacred tree four metres tall, with nine birds upon its branches [00:53] 我們把青銅的眼眸向外凸出，只想看清幾千年後的星河 | We cast bronze eyes that reached out, hoping to see the stars millennia away [01:00] 直到那場大火熄滅，我們將所有的秘密埋入厚厚的黃土 | When the great fire died, we buried every secret deep in the earth [01:07] 在黑暗的地底閉上眼睛，一睡就是三千個春秋 | We closed our eyes beneath the ground and slept for three thousand years [01:39] 三千年後的今天，考古刷輕輕掃去我臉上的泥沙 | Three thousand years later, a brush gently clears the earth from my face [01:45] 殘缺的半張黃金面具，在聚光燈下重新綻放出金光 | Half a golden mask, broken yet radiant, shines again beneath the light [01:51] 你隔著博物館透明的玻璃，屏住呼吸站在我面前 | Through the museum glass, you stand before me, holding your breath [01:58] 這個被算法和鋼筋水泥包圍的現代人，突然紅了眼眶 | Surrounded by algorithms and concrete, your eyes suddenly fill with tears [02:04] 你問我三千年前的古蜀人，為什麼總是在仰望天空 | You ask why the people of ancient Shu were always looking up at the sky [02:12] 因為無論過多少個千年，人類心底對星辰的嚮往從未改變 | Across every millennium, our longing for the stars has never changed [02:22] 沉睡三千年，一醒驚天下 | Asleep for three thousand years, we wake to astonish the world [02:28] 當青銅的眼睛穿過厚重的黃土，剛好與今天的你四目相對 | These bronze eyes emerge from the earth and meet yours across the ages [02:35] 史書上漏掉了我們的名字，大地卻替我們守住了浪漫 | History forgot our names; the earth kept our dreams alive [02:42] 你看那黃金面具缺了一半，另一半正映著玻璃前你的臉龐 | Half the golden mask is missing; the other half reflects your face [02:48] 原來文明從不會真正死去，只要還有人抬頭仰望星光 | A civilisation never truly dies while someone still looks up at the stars [03:26] 別怕你此刻的渺小，別怕被匆忙的時代遺忘 | Do not fear being small, or being forgotten by this hurried age [03:33] 就像埋在泥土裡的黃金，哪怕隔著三千年的漫長黑夜 | Like gold beneath the earth, through three thousand years of darkness [03:40] 只要你守住心裡那一點不滅的光芒 | Keep that little light alive within your heart [03:46] 總有一天，世界會看見你驚艷歲月的模樣 | One day the world will see the beauty time has kept in you [03:56] 沉睡三千年，一醒驚天下 | Asleep for three thousand years, we wake to astonish the world [04:03] 當青銅的眼睛穿過厚重的黃土，剛好與今天的你四目相對 | These bronze eyes emerge from the earth and meet yours across the ages [04:10] 去看看那棵通天的青銅神樹吧，去聽聽三千年前的風聲 | Go see the bronze tree reaching skyward; hear the wind of three thousand years ago [04:16] 敬這片生生不息的華夏山河，也敬眼裡依然有光的你 | To this enduring land, and to the light still shining in your eyes [04:29] 我在三星堆，等了你三千年。 | I have waited for you at Sanxingdui for three thousand years ## 徽州雨 (Huizhou Rain) — 山河留声机 / 独立单曲 - URL: https://chorab.art/tracks/huizhou-rain/ - Cinema Still: https://chorab.art/assets/img/stills/huizhou-rain.webp - YouTube 4K MV: https://youtu.be/42cvVXJd1QI - Instrumentation: Guzheng, Jiangnan xiao & bamboo flute, felted piano, warm chamber strings, courtyard rain ambience - Summary (EN): "Huizhou Rain" evokes the classical ink-wash landscape of historic Huizhou beneath the Huangshan mountains, where fine mist dampens handmade xuan paper, moss-lined flagstones, white walls with stepped horse-head gables, and the painted bridge over Hongcun's South Lake. Paralleling a fourteen-year-old Song-era Huizhou merchant setting out with an oil-paper umbrella and a modern city commuter carrying homesickness in a briefcase, the arrangement blends guzheng, Jiangnan xiao and bamboo flute, felted piano, chamber strings, and courtyard rain around Tang Xianzu's famous couplet and the sky-blue celadon glaze of Song Dynasty Ru ware. - Summary (ZH): 天青色雲霧低垂黃山，千年細雨漫過徽州白牆黛瓦的馬頭牆、舊石板青苔與南湖畫橋的烏篷船燈火。曲作並置八百年前背油紙傘出山經商的徽州少年，與今日握著返程高鐵票回望故鄉春茶的都市遊子；古箏、江南竹笛與溫潤弦樂融入簷下細雨聲，在湯顯祖「無夢到徽州」與汝窯天青釉色間留出宋畫般的清淨空白。 ### Bilingual Lyrics: [00:30] 天青色的雲，壓低了遠處的黃山 | Pale blue clouds settle low over the distant Huangshan mountains [00:36] 一場下了千年的細雨，把宣紙染濕了一半 | A thousand years of fine rain have dampened half a sheet of xuan paper [00:43] 白牆黛瓦的馬頭牆下，青苔爬上了舊石板 | Beneath white walls and dark horse-head gables, moss climbs the old paving stones [00:50] 風吹過南湖的畫橋，搖晃著烏篷船的燈火 | Wind crosses the painted bridge of South Lake, rocking a covered boat’s lamplight [00:59] 八百年前的那個清晨，十四歲的徽州少年 | One morning eight hundred years ago, a fourteen-year-old boy from Huizhou [01:07] 背著一把油紙傘，一步一回頭走出了大山 | Carried an oil-paper umbrella out of the mountains, looking back with every step [01:14] 母親在祠堂前替他求了一枚平安符 | His mother prayed before the ancestral hall for a charm to keep him safe [01:18] 從此他走遍四海經商，夢裡卻總是故鄉的雨聲 | He travelled far to trade, but his dreams always held the rain of home [01:28] 八百年後的今天，你也攥著一張返程的高鐵票 | Eight hundred years later, you too hold a high-speed train ticket home [01:35] 在北上廣深的霓虹裡，把鄉愁藏進公文包 | Amid the neon of distant cities, you tuck your homesickness into a briefcase [01:43] 只有當春雨敲打著寫字樓的玻璃窗 | Only when spring rain taps against the office window [01:49] 你突然想起老家屋檐下，那碗冒著熱氣的春茶 | Do you remember a steaming bowl of spring tea beneath the eaves at home [01:57] 原來我們拼盡全力走向繁華的遠方 | Perhaps all our striving toward a glittering world far away [02:04] 不過是為了某一天，能體面地回到出發的地方 | Is so that one day we may return with dignity to where we began [02:12] 徽州的雨，一滴一滴落成宋畫裡的留白 | Huizhou rain falls drop by drop into the empty spaces of a Song painting [02:19] 洗淨了半生的浮躁，也接住了遊子滿身的塵埃 | Washing away years of restlessness, welcoming the dust upon the traveller [02:26] 白牆黛瓦鎖不住遠行的腳步 | White walls and dark tiles cannot hold back departing footsteps [02:30] 卻永遠替趕路的人，留著一扇聽雨的軒窗 | But they keep a window open, where those who hurry may listen to the rain [02:40] 一生痴絕處，無夢到徽州 | The place that holds a lifetime’s longing: Huizhou, beyond even dreams [02:48] 累了的時候，就回江南聽一場不趕時間的雨 | When you are tired, return to Jiangnan and hear rain that is in no hurry [03:13] 不必羨慕外面的高樓有多高 | There is no need to envy the height of the towers outside [03:19] 你看那汝窯的天青色，非要等一場煙雨才肯醒來 | Look at that pale blue Ru glaze, waiting for mist and rain to awaken [03:27] 人生最好的境界，也像這幅水墨江南 | The finest state of life is like this ink-wash Jiangnan landscape [03:34] 三分熱鬧留給世俗，七分清淨留給心安 | Three parts bustle for the world, seven parts quiet for peace of mind [03:42] 徽州的雨，一滴一滴落成宋畫裡的留白 | Huizhou rain falls drop by drop into the empty spaces of a Song painting [03:49] 洗淨了半生的浮躁，也接住了遊子滿身的塵埃 | Washing away years of restlessness, welcoming the dust upon the traveller [03:57] 白牆黛瓦鎖不住遠行的腳步 | White walls and dark tiles cannot hold back departing footsteps [04:00] 卻永遠替趕路的人，留著一扇聽雨的軒窗 | But they keep a window open, where those who hurry may listen to the rain [04:10] 一生痴絕處，無夢到徽州 | The place that holds a lifetime’s longing: Huizhou, beyond even dreams [04:20] 今夜，願這場江南雨入你的夢來 | Tonight, may this Jiangnan rain enter your dreams [04:32] 天青色等煙雨，而江南在等你。 | Pale blue waits for mist and rain, while Jiangnan waits for you. ## 長安夜，西安晨 (Chang'an Night, Xi'an Morning) — 山河留声机 / 独立单曲 - URL: https://chorab.art/tracks/changan-night-xian-morning/ - Cinema Still: https://chorab.art/assets/img/stills/changan-night-xian-morning.webp - YouTube 4K MV: https://youtu.be/CrMdD0J2DsM - Instrumentation: Acoustic steel-string guitar, Tang bamboo flute (dizi), warm electric bass, brushed drums, cello, Xi'an street dawn ambience - Summary (EN): "Chang'an Night, Xi'an Morning" traces a single night-to-dawn arc through China's thirteen-dynasty capital. Beginning at 11:30 PM beneath the Ming-era Yongning Gate ramparts—where a young worker off a late shift plays acoustic guitar and drinks orange Bingfeng soda over stones once crossed by Tang poets Li Bai and Du Fu near Qujiang Pool—the narrative moves to 5:30 AM around the Bell Tower and Muslim Quarter as firewood mutton broth and steaming paomo greet the morning commute, set to steel-string folk guitar, dizi flute, cello, and gentle rhythm. - Summary (ZH): 深夜十一點半的永寧門城牆根下，加完班的年輕人彈著木吉他、喝著橘子味冰峰汽水；腳下青石板曾走過李白的白馬，曲江池畔亦留有杜甫為房租嘆息的詩行。直到凌晨五點半蒸籠揭開、回民街羊湯與滾燙泡饃喚醒鐘樓朝霞，木吉他民謠與唐風竹笛交融，寫盡十三朝古都長安與煙火西安的一夜一晨。 ### Bilingual Lyrics: [00:13] 晚上十一點半，永寧門的城牆根下 | At eleven-thirty at night, beneath the walls of Yongning Gate, [00:18] 剛加完班的年輕人，坐在馬路牙子上彈著木吉他 | a young man off a late shift sits on the curb, playing his acoustic guitar. [00:23] 腳下踩著的青石板，一千三百年前曾走過李白的白馬 | These paving stones once felt Li Bai's white horse, thirteen centuries ago. [00:28] 那時候這裡叫長安，九天閶闔開宮殿，萬國衣冠拜冕旒 | Then it was Chang'an: palace gates opened to envoys from a thousand lands. [00:33] 如今這裡叫西安，外賣騎手的電動車穿行在鐘樓四周 | Now it is Xi'an, where delivery riders weave around the Bell Tower. [00:43] 晚風吹過古老的城頭，吹亂了少年的頭髮 | The evening breeze crosses the old ramparts and ruffles his hair. [00:49] 他擰開一瓶橘子味的冰峰，把今天受的委屈一口咽下 | He opens an orange Bingfeng soda and swallows the hurts of the day. [00:57] 這座城太老了，老得隨便挖一鏟子都是王侯將相的傳奇 | This city is so old, a single spadeful of earth can uncover a royal story. [01:02] 這座城又太年輕了，年輕得裝得下幾百萬個外鄉人的行李 | Yet it is young enough to hold the luggage of millions who came from afar. [01:08] 你在高新區的寫字樓裡，為了幾千塊的房租熬紅了眼睛 | In a high-tech district office, you work red-eyed to cover the rent. [01:13] 他在回民街的巷子深處，凌晨四點就開始劈柴熬著羊湯 | Deep in the Muslim Quarter, a cook splits firewood for mutton broth at four. [01:18] 杜甫當年在曲江池畔，也曾因為交不起房租寫詩嘆氣 | Beside Qujiang Pool, even Du Fu once sighed in verse about unpaid rent. [01:24] 原來這一千三百年裡，長安從沒笑話過任何一個追夢的布衣 | For thirteen centuries, Chang'an has never mocked an ordinary dreamer. [01:31] 長安的夜，接住了所有還沒睡的失意 | Chang'an's night catches everyone still awake with disappointment. [01:36] 西安的晨，用一碗滾燙的泡饃把你叫醒 | Xi'an's morning wakes you with a steaming bowl of paomo. [01:42] 李白醉倒過的那輪明月，今晚正照著還沒攢夠首付的你 | The moon Li Bai drank beneath now shines on you, still saving for a home. [01:47] 城牆上吹過一千三百年的晚風，從不勢利 | The breeze across these ancient walls has no regard for status. [01:52] 不管你是金榜題名的狀元郎，還是咬牙打拼的普通人 | Whether you top the imperial exams or simply struggle to make a living, [01:59] 這座城都願意為你，留一盞亮到天明的燈 | this city will leave a light burning for you until dawn. [02:05] 凌晨五點半，第一班地鐵還沒有發車 | At five-thirty in the morning, the first metro has yet to depart. [02:10] 早點鋪的蒸籠揭開，白色的蒸汽模糊了整條街的夜色 | Steam rises from the breakfast baskets, blurring the last dark of the street. [02:15] 彈吉他的少年背起琴盒，喝乾了瓶底最後一口汽水 | The young man shoulders his guitar case and finishes his soda. [02:20] 迎著鐘樓方向升起的朝霞，大步走向新的一天 | He strides into a new day, toward the dawn beyond the Bell Tower. [02:28] 長安的夜，接住了所有還沒睡的失意 | Chang'an's night catches everyone still awake with disappointment. [02:33] 西安的晨，用一碗滾燙的泡饃把你叫醒 | Xi'an's morning wakes you with a steaming bowl of paomo. [02:39] 李白醉倒過的那輪明月，今晚正照著還沒攢夠首付的你 | The moon Li Bai drank beneath now shines on you, still saving for a home. [02:45] 去吹吹永寧門的晚風吧，在十三朝的月光裡 | Come feel Yongning Gate's evening breeze, beneath thirteen dynasties' moon. [02:52] 敬千年前的長安，也敬今晚不肯認輸的你 | To the Chang'an of a thousand years ago, and to you who will not give in. [03:14] 早安，西安。 | Good morning, Xi'an. ## 挑燈的人 (The Lamp Lighter) — 千古人物集 / 独立单曲 - URL: https://chorab.art/tracks/the-lamp-lighter/ - Cinema Still: https://chorab.art/assets/img/stills/the-lamp-lighter.webp - YouTube 4K MV: https://youtu.be/qTqgKjLrDXY - Instrumentation: Warm felted piano, guqin harmonics, xiao flute, solo cello, intimate chamber strings - Summary (EN): "The Lamp Lighter" brings three historical figures from Chinese letters and statecraft into quiet conversation with modern everyday exhaustion: Northern Song essayist Su Xun, who began serious study only at twenty-seven and knew exam-hall despair; Three Kingdoms chancellor Zhuge Liang, who burned candles over military dispatches until his death at fifty-four on the Wuzhang Plains; and Tang poet Bai Juyi, who wrote humorously of failing memory past sixty. Scored for felted piano, guqin harmonics, xiao flute, and chamber strings, it honors late-night students, overburdened workers, and aging parents. - Summary (ZH): 以跨越千年的「過來人」視角，串聯二十七歲始發憤讀書的蘇洵、五十四歲積勞病逝於五丈原案頭的諸葛亮，以及六十歲後作詩自嘲健忘的白居易。溫暖原聲鋼琴、古琴泛音與室內弦樂緩緩對話，映照今日凌晨一點檯燈下的苦讀少年、連軸轉的中年與把記憶全分給家人的父母，在長夜裡輕輕將燈芯撥亮一寸。 ### Bilingual Lyrics: [00:00] 我是過來人 一千年前也熬過你今夜的燈 | I'm someone who's been through it all, keeping the same lamp lit a thousand years ago. [00:07] 你卡殼的題 你酸澀的眼 你轉身就忘的事 我都懂那份心疼 | The problems you're stuck on, your sore eyes, the things you forget—I know how much it hurts. [00:15] 我不是來催你 我是來陪你走這一程 | I'm not here to rush you; I'm here to walk this journey by your side. [00:23] 你不是一個人 前面有我們留的燈 | You are not alone; there is a light we left for you ahead. [00:30] 我是蘇洵 二十七歲才翻開第一本書 | I am Su Xun. I didn't open my first serious book until age 27. [00:34] 進考場盯著白紙 腦子像灌了鉛一樣發木 | Staring at blank exam paper, my mind felt heavy as lead. [00:37] 先生搖頭說我心思不在 爹娘在門外嘆氣踱步 | The teacher shook his head saying my heart wasn't in it, while my parents paced outside sighing. [00:41] 可只有我自己知道 那支筆重得像千斤頂不住 | Only I knew how heavy that pen felt—like a thousand pounds I couldn't lift. [00:45] 你也一樣吧 草稿紙劃爛了三頁還是沒思路 | You're the same, right? Three pages of scratch paper torn through, still no clue. [00:49] 凌晨一點檯燈刺得眼睛發酸 字在紙上跳舞 | At 1 AM the desk lamp stings your sore eyes, words dancing on the page. [00:52] 真不是你不夠拼 是連軸轉的腦子燒乾了燈油 | It's not that you didn't try hard enough—your overworked brain just burned out its oil. [01:00] 我是諸葛亮 五十四歲累倒在五丈原的案頭 | I am Zhuge Liang. At 54, I collapsed from exhaustion at my desk in Wuzhang Plains. [01:04] 軍書二十罰以上皆親覽 燭火熬乾了一宿又一宿 | Reviewing every scroll myself, burning candles through night after night, [01:07] 直到眼前發黑 連熟人的名字都記不周全 | until my vision blacked out and I couldn't even recall familiar names. [01:11] 回頭看 就想勸一句台下還在硬撐的你 | Looking back, I just want to say one word to you who are still holding on so hard: [01:14] 弦繃得太緊不會更響 腦子累空了 別什麼都拿命硬扛 | A bowstring pulled too tight won't sound louder; when your mind is drained, don't shoulder it all alone. [01:22] 我是白居易 六十歲後寫了首詩笑自己糊塗 | I am Bai Juyi. Past 60, I wrote poems laughing at my own forgetfulness— [01:26] 手裡攥著鑰匙找鑰匙 走到門口忘了去哪處 | holding my keys while looking for my keys, standing at the door forgetting where to go. [01:30] 你也一樣吧 左手握著手機 滿屋子翻了十分鐘 | You're the same, right? Holding your phone in your left hand, searching the house for ten minutes. [01:33] 可女兒哪天降溫 外孫愛吃什麼 你閉著眼都能背熟 | Yet you know by heart when it turns cold in your daughter's city and what your grandson loves. [01:37] 剛盛好的湯忘了喝 卻記得提前半個月把年貨備足 | Forgetting the warm soup on the table, yet remembering to stock New Year gifts early. [01:40] 你哪是老糊塗了 你是把內存全分給了這一家老小 | You're not growing senile—you just gave all your memory to this whole family, [01:44] 唯獨把自己的名字 排在了最後 | putting your own name at the very end. [01:51] 我是過來人 一千年前也熬過你今夜的燈 | I'm someone who's been through it all, keeping the same lamp lit a thousand years ago. [01:59] 別讓最拼的少年熬空了靈光 | Don't let the hardest-working youth burn out their spark; [02:02] 別讓最疼你的人忘了歸程 | don't let those who love you most forget the way home. [02:06] 我不是來催你 我是來替你把燈芯撥亮一寸 | I am not here to rush you. I am here to make your light a little brighter. [02:14] 你不是一個人 前面有我們留的燈 | You are not alone; there is a light we left for you ahead. ## 我是蘇東坡 (I Am Su Dongpo) — 千古人物集 / 独立单曲 - URL: https://chorab.art/tracks/i-am-su-dongpo/ - Cinema Still: https://chorab.art/assets/img/stills/i-am-su-dongpo.webp - YouTube 4K MV: https://youtu.be/FSc4miHNJ0w - Instrumentation: Bamboo flute (dizi), guqin, acoustic guitar, warm orchestral strings, subtle Chinese percussion - Summary (EN): "I Am Su Dongpo" is a first-person musical portrait of Northern Song literary master Su Shi (Su Dongpo, 1037–1101). Tracing his fall from early fame under Ouyang Xiu to 130 days of imprisonment during the Crow Terrace Poetry Trial and decades of exile across Huangzhou, Huizhou, and Hainan's Danzhou, the narrative weaves his everyday resilience—farming the Eastern Slope and simmering Dongpo pork in a clay pot—into famous verses from "Calming the Waves" (Dingfengbo), scored for bamboo flute, guqin, acoustic guitar, and warm strings. - Summary (ZH): 從二十一歲名動汴京、歐陽修盛讚，到烏臺詩案百三十日死牢，再一路貶謫黃州、惠州直至六十二歲渡海遠赴儋州，蘇軾（蘇東坡）在最落魄的歲月裡開荒東坡、慢煨紅燒肉，寫下《定風波》與《念奴嬌》。曲作以竹笛、古琴、原聲吉他與弦樂相融，道出「竹杖芒鞋輕勝馬，一蓑煙雨任平生」的曠達。 ### Bilingual Lyrics: [00:18] 我是蘇軾，二十一歲那年名動京城 | I am Su Shi. At twenty-one, my name rang through the capital. [00:24] 連歐陽修都說，老夫當避路，放他出一頭地 | Even Ouyang Xiu said he would step aside and let me lead. [00:30] 那時候我以為，人生不過是春風得意馬蹄疾 | I thought life was a swift ride on the winds of success. [00:35] 直到烏台的一場大雪，把我關進一百三十天的死牢裡 | Then came the Censorate's snow, and 130 days in a death cell. [00:41] 走出牢門的那天，我一襲青衫踏進黃州的春泥 | Released from prison, I walked in a blue robe into Huangzhou's spring mud. [00:46] 一家老小二十口人，連買米的銅板都要算計 | With twenty mouths to feed, we counted every coin for rice. [00:52] 夜裡屋頂漏著秋雨，床榻濕得沒法休息 | Autumn rain leaked through the roof; the bed was too wet for sleep. [00:56] 可第二天雲開霧散，我挽起衣袖去東坡開荒種地 | But when the clouds cleared, I rolled up my sleeves to farm the Eastern Slope. [01:03] 你也一樣吧，正走在人生一段起霧的山路 | Perhaps you too are walking a mountain road lost in mist. [01:08] 明明滿懷赤誠，卻被風雨潑了一身寒露 | You brought an honest heart, and the storm left you cold. [01:13] 案頭的難題、肩上的重擔，壓得你喘不過氣 | Problems on your desk and burdens on your shoulders steal your breath. [01:19] 看著別人扶搖直上，覺得自己受盡了委屈 | Watching others rise, you feel the world has treated you unfairly. [01:24] 聽東坡一句，我在黃州用文火慢煨一鍋豬肉 | Listen to Dongpo: in Huangzhou, I simmered pork over a gentle fire. [01:29] 在惠州伴著松風入眠，照樣啖著荔枝飲著清酒 | In Huizhou, I slept to wind in the pines, eating lychees and drinking wine. [01:35] 後來六十二歲又把我貶去儋州，那可是萬里滄海盡頭 | At sixty-two, they banished me to Danzhou, beyond a vast and distant sea. [01:40] 我穿著芒鞋拄著竹杖，迎著驚濤駭浪照樣仰天長嘯 | In straw sandals, with a bamboo staff, I still sang into the crashing waves. [01:47] 我是蘇東坡，這一生沒贏過一場風波 | I am Su Dongpo. I never won a battle against life's storms. [01:52] 從京城一路退到南海，把萬里江山走成了我的歌 | Driven from the capital to the southern sea, I turned the land into my song. [01:58] 竹杖芒鞋輕勝馬，誰怕？一蓑煙雨任平生 | A staff and straw sandals beat a horse. Who fears the rain? Let it come. [02:03] 只要灶台上的紅燒肉，還在砂鍋裡咕嘟冒泡 | As long as the pork is still bubbling in the clay pot on the stove, [02:08] 這起落的風雨，就還沒把咱們真正難倒 | these storms and setbacks have not truly beaten us. [02:15] 世人只羨慕我筆下，大江東去浪淘盡的豪邁 | The world admires the bold river flowing east through my verse, [02:20] 卻不知道那些千古絕唱，全寫在我最落魄的年代 | but those enduring words were written in my hardest years. [02:26] 如果當年我一直順風順水，不過是個尋常的京官 | Had everything gone my way, I might have been just another court official. [02:31] 正是那些把我往下推的急流，托起了我頭頂的明月清風 | The currents pushing me down lifted the moon and breeze above me. [02:37] 所以今夜坐在燈下嘆氣的你，不必急著否定自己 | So you, sighing beneath a lamp tonight, need not give up on yourself. [02:42] 低谷不是用來絕望的，是天地讓你靜下心來、看清自己 | A low point is a place to grow still and see yourself, not to lose all hope. [02:48] 回首向來蕭瑟處，歸去，也無風雨也無晴！ | Looking back where the storm swept through: homeward, beyond rain or shine. [03:01] 且將新火試新茶，詩酒趁年華！ | Kindle a fresh fire for new tea. Make poetry and wine while youth is here. [03:12] 我是蘇東坡，這一生沒贏過一場風波 | I am Su Dongpo. I never won a battle against life's storms. [03:18] 從京城一路退到南海，把萬里江山走成了我的歌 | Driven from the capital to the southern sea, I turned the land into my song. [03:24] 竹杖芒鞋輕勝馬，誰怕？一蓑煙雨任平生 | A staff and straw sandals beat a horse. Who fears the rain? Let it come. [03:30] 只要灶台上的紅燒肉，還在砂鍋裡咕嘟冒泡 | As long as the pork is still bubbling in the clay pot on the stove, [03:34] 這起落的風雨，就還沒把咱們真正難倒 | these storms and setbacks have not truly beaten us. [03:44] 莫聽穿林打葉聲，何妨吟嘯且徐行。往前走吧。 | Ignore the rain on leaves. Sing and walk at ease. Keep going. ## 我是李清照 (I Am Li Qingzhao) — 千古人物集 / 独立单曲 - URL: https://chorab.art/tracks/i-am-li-qingzhao/ - Cinema Still: https://chorab.art/assets/img/stills/i-am-li-qingzhao.webp - YouTube 4K MV: https://youtu.be/jQdWUayRPQs - Instrumentation: Guzheng, pipa, xiao flute, solo piano, dramatic orchestral strings - Summary (EN): "I Am Li Qingzhao" chronicles the two halves of Song Dynasty poet Li Qingzhao's life (1084–c.1155): her luminous youth in Bianjing collecting epigraphic rubbings at Xiangguo Temple and spilling tea over literary games with husband Zhao Mingcheng, followed by the Jingkang catastrophe, widowhood in Jiankang, safeguarding fifteen carts of bronzes and rare texts across turbulent rivers, and standing unbowed through imprisonment. Scored for guzheng, pipa, xiao flute, piano, and dramatic strings, it pairs her delicate ci lyrics with her heroic Wu River quatrain. - Summary (ZH): 前半生是汴京月光下與趙明誠逛相國寺、賭書潑茶的明媚歲月，後半生是靖康戰火後護著十五車青銅古籍渡江南下、歷經牢獄亦不折腰的四十年風雨。作品跳出「尋尋覓覓」的單一婉約印象，以古箏、琵琶、簫與戲劇化弦樂交織，重現李清照於烏江畔寫下「生當作人傑」與「九萬里風鵬正舉」的錚錚傲骨。 ### Bilingual Lyrics: [00:22] 我是李清照 | I am Li Qingzhao [00:24] 十八歲那年嫁給趙明誠 | At eighteen, I married Zhao Mingcheng [00:27] 汴京的月光很暖 | Moonlight warmed Bianjing [00:29] 我們的日子清貧卻豐盛 | Our modest days were rich with joy [00:32] 每個月領了微薄的俸祿 | Each month, with our small income [00:35] 就去相國寺淘換碑文古籍 | We searched Xiangguo Temple for rubbings and old books [00:38] 夜裡坐在燈下猜書裡的典故 | By lamplight, we tested each other on the books [00:41] 誰贏了誰先舉起茶杯 | The winner raised the first cup of tea [00:43] 有時候高興得手一抖 | Sometimes my hand shook with delight [00:46] 熱茶潑濕了滿襟衣袖 | And hot tea spilled across my sleeves [00:49] 那時候我以為 | I thought back then [00:51] 綠肥紅瘦就是這輩子最大的哀愁 | Fading flowers would be my greatest sorrow [00:55] 我以為那雙替我簪花的手 | I thought the hands that placed flowers in my hair [01:00] 能一直牽著我走到白頭 | Would hold mine until we both grew old [01:05] 直到靖康的戰火燒紅了黃河 | Then the wars of Jingkang set the Yellow River ablaze [01:08] 半壁江山在一夜之間傾覆 | And half the country fell in a single night [01:11] 四十六歲那年 | When I was forty-six [01:13] 他在建康病逝 | He died of illness in Jiankang [01:14] 留我一個人在亂世孤獨 | Leaving me alone in a world at war [01:16] 身後是南下的鐵蹄 | Behind me, cavalry pressed south [01:19] 身前是十五車我們先人留下的青銅與古書 | Before me, fifteen carts of ancestral bronzes and books [01:22] 沒有人為我撐傘 | No one held an umbrella over me [01:24] 我在風浪裡雇船渡過湍急的江水 | I hired a boat and crossed the raging river [01:28] 在顛沛流離的逃亡路上 | Through a life of flight and wandering [01:30] 把文化的火種死死護在懷裡 | I held the embers of culture close [01:33] 四十九歲我墜入惡人的騙局 | At forty-nine, I fell into a cruel deception [01:36] 為了公道我寧可自己踏進大牢 | For justice, I chose to enter prison [01:39] 哪怕滿身傷痕走出來 | I walked out covered in scars [01:44] 我也沒向那渾濁的世俗彎過一次腰 | Yet never bowed to that corrupted world [01:48] 世人只背得出我 | The world remembers only my words [01:52] 尋尋覓覓、冷冷清清 | Searching, seeking; lonely, cold [01:55] 以為我這一生 | They think my whole life [01:56] 只會在梧桐細雨裡哭泣凋零 | Was weeping away beneath rain-soaked wutong trees [02:00] 卻不知道賭書潑茶之後 | They never knew that after our games over books and tea [02:03] 我一個人在風雨裡走了四十年 | I walked alone through forty years of wind and rain [02:06] 當漫天戰火燒碎了江南的夢 | When war shattered the dream of Jiangnan [02:09] 我站在烏江岸邊寫下生當作人傑 | On the Wu River, I wrote: Live as a hero among people [02:14] 這一身女兒家的傲骨 | The spirit of this woman [02:17] 比滿朝文武都要堅硬如鐵 | Was harder than iron, stronger than the court [02:22] 看著台下也在獨自扛事的你 | I see you carrying your burdens alone [02:24] 我彷彿看見了當年的自己 | And recognize the woman I once was [02:27] 也許你也曾以為某個人是避風港 | Perhaps you once thought someone was a safe harbor [02:30] 最後卻自己活成了擋風的牆 | Then became your own shelter from the storm [02:33] 別怕歲月帶走年少時的明媚 | Do not fear the years that take your youthful light [02:35] 別怕一個人在夜裡收拾殘局 | Or the nights you put the pieces back together alone [02:38] 眼淚流乾之後長出來的鎧甲 | The armor that grows after your tears have dried [02:40] 才是這世上誰也奪不走的底氣 | Is a strength no one can take away [02:46] 九萬里風鵬正舉 | The great bird rises on the wind, ninety thousand li high [02:52] 風休住 | Wind, do not stop [02:54] 蓬舟吹取三山去！ | Carry my little boat to the three immortal mountains [02:57] 世人只背得出我 | The world remembers only my words [03:00] 尋尋覓覓、冷冷清清 | Searching, seeking; lonely, cold [03:03] 以為我這一生 | They think my whole life [03:05] 只會在梧桐細雨裡哭泣凋零 | Was weeping away beneath rain-soaked wutong trees [03:08] 卻不知道賭書潑茶之後 | They never knew that after our games over books and tea [03:11] 我一個人在風雨裡走了四十年 | I walked alone through forty years of wind and rain [03:14] 願你也有賭書潑茶的天真 | May you keep the innocence of books and spilled tea [03:17] 也有獨自渡江的勇敢 | And the courage to cross a river alone [03:20] 把這跌宕起伏的人間 | Through every turn this world can take [03:22] 走成屬於你自己的千古江山 | Walk into an enduring realm of your own [03:30] 風休住 | Wind, do not stop [03:35] 往前飛吧。 | Fly onward ## 破陣子·五十騎 (Fifty Cavalry) — 千古人物集 / 独立单曲 - URL: https://chorab.art/tracks/fifty-cavalry/ - Cinema Still: https://chorab.art/assets/img/stills/fifty-cavalry.webp - YouTube 4K MV: https://youtu.be/A5N-e8aYLfg - Instrumentation: Chinese war drums (dagu), percussive pipa, bamboo flute, heroic brass, driving orchestral strings - Summary (EN): "Fifty Cavalry" dramatizes the true 1162 night raid of twenty-two-year-old warrior-poet Xin Qiji (1140–1207), who led fifty armored horsemen through a Jin army camp of fifty thousand before spending four decades sidelined in Southern Song Jiangnan. Structured around his famous heroic ci poem "Pozhenzi" ('Drunk, I trim the lamp to examine my sword'), the composition combines driving Chinese war drums, percussive pipa strumming, suona and bamboo winds, brass, and cinematic strings to capture unbroken courage across youth and white-haired age. - Summary (ZH): 公元一一六二年寒夜，二十二歲的辛棄疾率五十披甲鐵騎直闖五萬金兵連營，於漫天箭雨與風雪中破圍南歸；四十年後江南雨夜，滿頭白髮的詞人挑燈看劍，將平生壯志寫入《破陣子》。作品以戰鼓、琵琶掃弦、蒼勁竹笛與交響銅管弦樂推進，重現「馬作的盧飛快，弓如霹靂弦驚」的金戈鐵馬與孤勇。 ### Bilingual Lyrics: [00:00] 公元一一六二年的寒夜，北風如刀 | On a freezing night in 1162, the north wind cut like a blade. [00:11] 五萬金兵的連營，把十里山河燒成火海 | Fifty thousand Jin troops camped end to end, burning ten miles of land into a sea of fire. [00:22] 那一年我二十二歲，名字叫作辛棄疾 | That year I was twenty-two, and my name was Xin Qiji. [00:33] 身後只有五十名弟兄，五十匹披甲的戰馬 | Behind me rode only fifty brothers, fifty armored warhorses. [00:44] 拔出長劍的那一刻，只問誰敢與我同行 | Drawing my longsword, I asked only: who dares ride with me? [00:55] 五十把戰刀同時出鞘，劈開黑夜的蒼穹 | Fifty sabers left their scabbards as one, cleaving the dark dome of night. [01:05] 萬箭齊發遮住了明月，我一人一騎衝破重圍 | Volleys of arrows blotted out the bright moon as horse and rider broke the siege. [01:16] 在五萬敵軍的驚呼聲裡，策馬踏碎漫天風雪！ | Amid the cries of fifty thousand foes, we galloped through the blinding snow! [01:27] 醉裡挑燈看劍，夢回吹角連營！ | Drunk, I trim the lamp to gaze upon my sword; in dreams I return to bugles across the camps! [01:38] 八百里分麾下炙，五十弦翻塞外聲 | Roasted beef shared down the ranks, fifty strings storming with frontier songs, [01:49] 沙場秋點兵！ | An autumn review of troops upon the battlefield! [02:00] 馬作的盧飛快，弓如霹靂弦驚！ | Horses fly swift as Dilu; bowstrings crack like sudden thunder! [02:11] 了卻君王天下事，贏得生前身後名 | To fulfill the sovereign's cause of reclaiming the realm, and win a name for all ages— [02:22] 哪怕前方是千軍萬馬，也擋不住這一腔孤勇！ | Even ten thousand troops ahead could never halt this lone, blazing courage! [02:33] 一晃眼四十年過去，江南的雨夜裡 | In the blink of an eye, forty years have passed into a rainy night in Jiangnan. [02:44] 滿頭白髮映著孤燈，手裡還是當年那把劍 | White hair gleams beside a solitary lamp; in my hand rests that same old sword. [02:55] 只要你心裡的戰鼓沒停，只要你眼裡的星火沒滅 | As long as the war drums still beat within your heart and the sparks in your eyes remain, [03:06] 這人間的風浪，就永遠壓不彎你的脊梁！ | No storm in this mortal world can ever bend your spine! [03:16] 醉裡挑燈看劍，夢回吹角連營！ | Drunk, I trim the lamp to gaze upon my sword; in dreams I return to bugles across the camps! [03:27] 八百里分麾下炙，五十弦翻塞外聲 | Roasted beef shared down the ranks, fifty strings storming with frontier songs, [03:38] 沙場秋點兵！ | An autumn review of troops upon the battlefield! [03:49] 馬作的盧飛快，弓如霹靂弦驚！ | Horses fly swift as Dilu; bowstrings crack like sudden thunder! [04:00] 敬千年前衝陣的五十鐵騎，也敬今天還在衝鋒的你 | Here is to the fifty iron riders who charged a millennium ago, and to you still charging onward today. [04:11] 握緊你心裡的那把劍，殺出屬於你的萬里黎明！ | Grip the sword within your heart and carve out ten thousand miles of dawn! [04:22] 醉裡挑燈看劍，此生不悔！ | Gazing at the sword by lamplight—not a single regret in this life! ## 千里江山 (A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains) — 千古人物集 / 独立单曲 - URL: https://chorab.art/tracks/a-thousand-li-of-rivers-and-mountains/ - Cinema Still: https://chorab.art/assets/img/stills/a-thousand-li-of-rivers-and-mountains.webp - YouTube 4K MV: https://youtu.be/pEVTBEu-qwQ - Instrumentation: Crystalline piano, bamboo flute (dizi), guqin, solo cello, sweeping orchestral strings - Summary (EN): "A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains" tells the story of Northern Song prodigy Wang Ximeng, who at age eighteen in 1113 AD ground mineral azurite (shiqing) and malachite (shilü) to paint a nearly twelve-meter blue-and-green landscape handscroll under Emperor Huizong's tutelage—recorded only in a brief colophon by Cai Jing before disappearing from history. Bridging the Song Imperial Painting Academy and modern visitors queuing at Beijing's Palace Museum, the arrangement pairs crystalline piano, bamboo flute, guqin, and sweeping orchestral strings. - Summary (ZH): 北宋政和三年，十八歲的畫學學生王希孟歷經無數次「還不夠好」的退回，得宋徽宗親授筆法，以石青作天、石綠作山，用半年光陰繪就近十二米長的《千里江山圖》，僅在蔡京題跋留名後便消失於史冊。九百年後故宮展櫃前，竹笛、古琴、鋼琴與恢弘弦樂鋪開青綠長卷，與今日迷茫的十八歲少年隔窗對話。 ### Bilingual Lyrics: [00:15] 我叫希孟 十八歲 北宋畫學裡的一個學生 | My name is Ximeng. Eighteen, a student at the Northern Song painting academy. [00:21] 後來被派去文書庫 | Later I was sent to the palace archives. [00:24] 每天守著一屋子的舊紙和燈 | Each day, a room of old papers and lamplight kept me company. [00:28] 我一次次把畫獻上去 | Again and again, I presented my paintings. [00:31] 一次次被說「還不夠好」 | Again and again, I was told: "Not good enough." [00:34] 別人都睡了 我還在畫 我不信這一生 | Everyone else was asleep. I kept painting. I refused to let my life [00:39] 就這麼潦草 | Be sketched so carelessly. [00:42] 後來皇上說 這孩子可以教 | Then the emperor said, "This child can be taught." [00:44] 親手教我怎麼用筆 | He taught me how to hold the brush. [00:47] 我把整座山河搬進心裡 一遍一遍地臨 | I carried the whole landscape in my heart, practicing again and again. [00:54] 石青研成天空 石綠堆成群山 | I ground blue into sky and built mountains out of green. [00:57] 半年 我只用了半年 | Half a year. It took me only half a year. [01:00] 筆尖落下最後一筆的時候 | When my brush set down the final stroke, [01:04] 窗外的天 剛好亮了 | The sky outside was just beginning to brighten. [01:08] 十八歲 我把千里江山畫完 | At eighteen, I painted a thousand li of rivers and mountains. [01:13] 石青作天 石綠作山 | Blue for the sky, green for the mountains. [01:18] 近十二米 是我全部的少年 | Nearly twelve meters: all the youth I had. [01:26] 如果這一生 只夠做好一件事 | If a lifetime is enough to do just one thing well, [01:29] 那就把它 畫成千年 | Then let it live a thousand years in paint. [01:46] 畫獻上去 皇上把它賞給了蔡京 | I presented the painting. The emperor bestowed it on Cai Jing. [01:49] 蔡京在畫後寫了幾行字 | Cai Jing wrote a few lines after the painting, [01:51] 記下了我的名字和年齡 | Recording my name and age. [01:57] 從那以後 史書裡 再也沒有我的消息 | After that, history has no further word of me. [02:01] 有人說我二十出頭就走了 有人說 | Some say I died in my early twenties. Others say [02:05] 誰也不知道去了哪裡 | No one knows where I went. [02:08] 可那片青綠 九百多年了 還亮著 | But those blues and greens still shine, nine centuries on. [02:11] 九百年後 故宮的門外排起了長隊 | Nine centuries later, long queues form outside the Palace Museum. [02:15] 一個剛考完試的少年 擠在人群裡看我 | A boy, just done with his exams, squeezes through the crowd to see me. [02:18] 他說自己普通 說自己慢 | He says he is ordinary. He says he is slow. [02:21] 說十八歲了 什麼都還沒做成 | He is eighteen, and feels he has accomplished nothing. [02:24] 我隔著玻璃想告訴他 | Through the glass, I want to tell him: [02:28] 我也曾 一次次被說「還不夠好」 | I too was told, again and again, "Not good enough." [02:37] 十八歲 我把千里江山畫完 | At eighteen, I painted a thousand li of rivers and mountains. [02:42] 石青作天 石綠作山 | Blue for the sky, green for the mountains. [02:48] 近十二米 是我全部的少年 | Nearly twelve meters: all the youth I had. [02:55] 如果這一生 只夠做好一件事 | If a lifetime is enough to do just one thing well, [02:59] 那就把它 畫成千年 | Then let it live a thousand years in paint. [03:03] 山不會問你 畫了多久 | Mountains will not ask how long you painted. [03:09] 水不會問你 活了多長 | Waters will not ask how long you lived. [03:14] 我只怕心裡有一座山 卻從沒畫出來 | I only fear holding a mountain in my heart and never painting it. [03:21] 少年不怕短 只怕沒亮過 | Youth fears no short life, only a life that never shone. [03:28] 十八歲 我把千里江山畫完 | At eighteen, I painted a thousand li of rivers and mountains. [03:33] 石青作天 石綠作山 | Blue for the sky, green for the mountains. [03:39] 近十二米 是我全部的少年 | Nearly twelve meters: all the youth I had. [03:47] 如果這一生 只夠做好一件事 | If a lifetime is enough to do just one thing well, [03:50] 那就把它 畫成千年 | Then let it live a thousand years in paint. [03:57] 畫成千年 | Let it live a thousand years. [04:03] 我畫完了我的江山 | I have finished my rivers and mountains. [04:08] 現在 輪到你了 | Now it is your turn. ## 我是李煜：誤作帝王家 (I Am Li Yu) — 千古人物集 / 独立单曲 - URL: https://chorab.art/tracks/i-am-li-yu/ - Cinema Still: https://chorab.art/assets/img/stills/i-am-li-yu.webp - YouTube 4K MV: https://youtu.be/q9uXMBuA9eg - Instrumentation: Mournful erhu, pipa, dongxiao flute, solo cello, nocturnal piano, orchestral strings - Summary (EN): "I Am Li Yu" portrays Li Yu (937–978), the last ruler of the Southern Tang and acclaimed master of Chinese ci poetry, whose gentle artistic temperament was ill-suited to kingship. Following the fall of Jinling along the Qinhuai River and his captivity in Northern Song Bianjing, he composed timeless elegies including "Yu Meiren" ('Like a river of spring water flowing east') and "Langtaosha." Arranged for mournful erhu, pipa, dongxiao flute, piano, and solo cello, the ballad meditates on lost youth and tender vulnerability. - Summary (ZH): 本該在江南煙雨裡寫詞畫竹的李煜（937–978），偏偏誤生帝王家；當北方鐵騎踏碎秦淮月色，昔日南唐後主淪為汴京小樓囚徒，於梧桐深秋與昨夜東風裡寫下《虞美人》《相見歡》與《浪淘沙》。幽咽二胡、琵琶、洞簫與深沉大提琴交織，訴說那份不為王座、只為故國舊夢與赤子真情而流的千古離愁。 ### Bilingual Lyrics: [00:28] 我本該在江南的煙雨裡，做一個寫詞畫畫的閒人 | I should have lived in the mist of Jiangnan, writing poems and painting in peace [00:36] 卻被命運推上金鑾殿，披上一身沉重如鐵的龍袍 | But fate pushed me onto a throne and clothed me in robes as heavy as iron [00:44] 我不懂如何揮舞屠刀，只懂海棠花落時那一聲嘆息 | I never knew how to wield a blade, only how to sigh when crabapple blossoms fell [00:51] 試過把愁緒連同長髮一起剪斷， 試過把舊日的衣袍燒成灰燼 | I tried cutting sorrow away with my long hair, and burning my old robes to ash [01:01] 可有些往事像春草，越是想忘，越是在夜裡瘋長 | Yet memories grow like spring grass: the more I forget, the wilder they grow at night [01:21] 那一年北方的鐵騎踏碎了秦淮河的月光 | That year, northern cavalry shattered the moonlight on the Qinhuai River [01:29] 我從三千里地山河的君王，變成了汴京小樓裡的囚徒 | From king of a vast realm, I became a prisoner in a small room in Bianjing [01:37] 夜裡不敢大聲哭泣，只能獨自走上冷清的西樓 | Afraid to cry aloud at night, I climbed the lonely western tower alone [01:43] 看月光如鉤，鎖住這一院寂寞的梧桐深秋 | A crescent moon held this courtyard of autumn leaves in solitude [01:51] 世人笑我守不住江山，可誰又守得住指縫裡流走的青春 | They mock me for losing a kingdom, but who can hold youth as it slips away? [02:07] 春花秋月何時了，往事知多少 | When will spring flowers and autumn moons end? How much of the past remains? [02:14] 小樓昨夜又東風，故國不堪回首月明中 | The east wind came to my room last night; I cannot bear to recall home beneath the moon [02:21] 我不是在哭我的王座，我是在哭那個再也回不去的昨天 | I weep not for my throne, but for the yesterday I can never return to [02:29] 問君能有幾多愁，恰似一江春水向東流 | How much sorrow can one hold? As much as a river of spring water flowing east [02:36] 原來這人世間最痛的亡國， 是弄丟了當年那個滿眼星辰的自己 | The deepest loss is losing the person we once were, whose eyes were full of stars [03:07] 隔著一千年的月光，我看見屏幕前暗自神傷的你 | Across a thousand years of moonlight, I see you grieving quietly before the screen [03:14] 你也一樣吧，在深夜裡懷念過某一段回不去的舊時光 | Have you too longed at night for a time that will never come again? [03:22] 也許是一段無疾而終的感情， 也許是年少時沒能實現的夢 | Perhaps a love that faded without an ending, or a dream of youth left unfulfilled [03:29] 別笑我懦弱，能在薄情的世界裡深情地痛哭一場 | Do not call me weak: to weep deeply in a world that has grown cold [03:37] 本身就是一種不肯向命運低頭的善良 | Is itself a kindness that refuses to bow to fate [03:45] 春花秋月何時了，往事知多少 | When will spring flowers and autumn moons end? How much of the past remains? [03:52] 小樓昨夜又東風，故國不堪回首月明中 | The east wind came to my room last night; I cannot bear to recall home beneath the moon [03:59] 我把一杯毒酒一飲而盡，換千古詞章陪你到天明 | I drink this poisoned wine, leaving poems to keep you company until dawn [04:06] 問君能有幾多愁，恰似一江春水向東流 | How much sorrow can one hold? As much as a river of spring water flowing east [04:14] 願你哭過這一場東風之後，替我活出此生未見的自由 | After these tears in the east wind, may you live the freedom I never knew [04:37] 流水落花春去也，天上人間。 | Water flows, blossoms fall, and spring departs: heaven and earth are worlds apart. ## 地下車庫的十分鐘 (Ten Minutes in the Parking Garage) — 挑灯放映室 / 独立单曲 - URL: https://chorab.art/tracks/ten-minutes-in-the-parking-garage/ - Cinema Still: https://chorab.art/assets/img/stills/ten-minutes-in-the-parking-garage.webp - YouTube 4K MV: https://youtu.be/ZyTvuPqxdlo - Instrumentation: Fingerstyle acoustic guitar, muted felt piano, upright bass, solo cello, subtle car-cabin ambience - Summary (EN): "Ten Minutes in the Parking Garage" observes a familiar ritual of contemporary urban adulthood: lingering in a parked car on basement level two before going upstairs to family life. Caught between client dinners, gray hairs in dashboard light, strawberries on the passenger seat, and warm pork-rib soup waiting at home, those ten silent minutes after switching off the engine become a private decompression chamber. Arranged with intimate acoustic guitar, muted piano, upright bass, and warm cello, the narrative ballad portrays unspoken domestic empathy. - Summary (ZH): 地下二層車庫裡檔位推回P檔，儀錶盤微光映著第十二根白髮，副駕放著女兒要的草莓，後備箱備著長輩的護具。推開車門前是職場裡陪笑的員工，走進家門後是不能露怯的丈夫與父親，唯有熄火後的十分鐘屬於自己。木吉他、低音提琴與溫暖鋼琴勾勒出當代中年人在車廂與萬家燈火之間的無聲默契。 ### Bilingual Lyrics: [00:22] 儀錶盤的螢光，映著第十二根白髮 | Dashboard light catches the twelfth strand of gray. [00:27] 檔位推回P檔，世界終於在這一秒停下 | I shift into park. For a moment, the whole world stops. [00:33] 後視鏡裡的那個人，領帶鬆了一半 | The man in the rear-view mirror has loosened his tie. [00:38] 剛在酒桌上陪完笑臉，胃裡還有點發酸 | I smiled through another business dinner. My stomach still aches. [00:45] 手機屏幕亮起，是家裡發來的消息 | My phone lights up. A message from home. [00:50] 問我到哪了，說排骨湯還溫在砂鍋裡 | Where are you? The pork-rib soup is still warm in the pot. [00:56] 我回了個馬上就到，還在等紅綠燈 | Almost there, I reply. Just waiting at a red light. [01:01] 其實車早就停穩，在這安靜的地下二層 | But the car is already parked on this quiet second basement level. [01:07] 你也一樣吧，有過這樣捨不得推門的時候 | Have you ever lingered like this, not quite ready to open the door? [01:12] 倒不是不愛那個家，只是想先把疲憊清空 | It is not that I do not love my home. I just need to let the tiredness go. [01:15] 在公司他們喊你老張，在客戶面前你得點頭 | At work, they call me Lao Zhang. With clients, I have to nod along. [01:19] 上了樓你是頂樑柱，是丈夫，是爸爸，不能有傷口 | Upstairs, I am their pillar, husband, father. Never allowed to show a wound. [01:24] 只有這熄火後的十分鐘，沒有誰需要你拿主意 | Only in these ten minutes after the engine stops does no one need an answer. [01:27] 靠著發涼的真皮座椅，聽完半首老歌的旋律 | I lean into the cool leather seat and listen to half an old song. [01:31] 把白天的委屈和硬撐，悄悄留在腳墊上面 | I leave the day's hurts and brave faces quietly on the floor mat. [01:37] 不能讓推門迎上來的孩子，看見一張陰天裡的臉 | The child running to greet me must not see a storm behind my eyes. [01:43] 這小小的車廂，是中年人最後的帳篷 | This little car is the last shelter of a middle-aged soul. [01:48] 擋住了外面的大雨，也藏起了說不出口的痛 | It keeps the rain outside, and holds the pain I cannot put into words. [01:54] 我不是不想回家，我是想先把鎧甲擦亮 | I do want to go home. I just want to polish my armor first. [02:00] 再帶著一身的溫暖，走進那扇亮著燈的窗 | Then carry a little warmth back through that lighted window. [02:06] 敬每一個在車裡坐了十分鐘的人 | Here's to everyone who sits in the car for ten minutes. [02:11] 你咽下的每一聲嘆息，都變成了這一家人的安穩 | Every sigh you swallow becomes a little more peace for your family. [02:19] 副駕駛的袋子裡，裝著女兒點名要的草莓 | On the passenger seat are the strawberries my daughter asked for. [02:23] 後備箱的紙箱裡，是給老丈人備的護腰護膝 | In the trunk, a box of back and knee supports for my father-in-law. [02:26] 深吸一口氣，對著鏡子揉了揉發僵的臉頰 | One deep breath. I rub my stiff cheeks in the mirror. [02:29] 拔下車鑰匙的那一刻，我又變回那個超人爸爸 | The moment I take out the key, I become her superhero dad again. [02:32] 走廊的聲控燈，隨著我的腳步一盞盞亮起 | The hallway lights come on, one by one, with my footsteps. [02:36] 門鎖轉動的聲音，換來屋裡歡快的腳步聲響起 | The turn of the lock brings a rush of happy little footsteps. [02:42] 妻子接過我的外套，聞了聞我身上的夜風 | My wife takes my coat, with the night still clinging to it. [02:48] 她什麼都沒問，只是往我手裡塞了一碗熱湯 | She asks no questions. She just puts a bowl of hot soup in my hands. [02:53] 在裊裊升起的熱氣裡，她輕輕拍了拍我的後背 | Through the rising steam, she gently pats my back. [02:59] 原來我藏在車裡的那十分鐘，她一直都懂那份累 | All along, she understood the tiredness in those ten minutes in the car. [03:05] 這小小的車廂，是中年人最後的帳篷 | This little car is the last shelter of a middle-aged soul. [03:11] 擋住了外面的大雨，也藏起了說不出口的痛 | It keeps the rain outside, and holds the pain I cannot put into words. [03:16] 我不是不想回家，我是想先把鎧甲擦亮 | I do want to go home. I just want to polish my armor first. [03:23] 再帶著一身的溫暖，走進那扇亮著燈的窗 | Then carry a little warmth back through that lighted window. [03:29] 敬每一個在車裡坐了十分鐘的人 | Here's to everyone who sits in the car for ten minutes. [03:34] 你不是一個人在扛，門後也有一盞等你的燈 | You are not carrying this alone. A light is waiting behind the door. [03:41] 上去吧，湯還熱著呢。 | Go on upstairs. The soup is still warm. [03:47] 晚安，挑燈趕路的人。 | Good night, to everyone finding their way by lamplight. ## 撤回的消息 (The Unsent Message) — 挑灯放映室 / 独立单曲 - URL: https://chorab.art/tracks/the-unsent-message/ - Cinema Still: https://chorab.art/assets/img/stills/the-unsent-message.webp - YouTube 4K MV: https://youtu.be/ihkNhhB7Ru8 - Instrumentation: Intimate acoustic piano, fingerpicked guitar, solo violin & cello, warm chamber strings - Summary (EN): "The Unsent Message" captures the quiet emotional distance of modern urban migration across two thousand kilometers. At 2 AM in an office building, an exhausted worker recalls a vulnerable WeChat message to their mother, replacing it with a smiling sticker—only to receive a sixty-second hometown-dialect voice note at dawn recorded beside a kitchen cutting board. Scored for intimate piano, acoustic guitar, and chamber strings, the ballad contrasts "Visible for three days" privacy settings with a mother's notebook of handwritten pinyin and blooming balcony cactus photos. - Summary (ZH): 凌晨兩點寫字樓裡冷透的盒飯旁，那句「媽，我最近真的好累」在發出的瞬間被長按撤回，換成一張咧嘴笑的表情包；清晨七點卻收到帶著切菜聲的六十秒方言語音。鋼琴與男女聲溫柔敘事，寫盡兩千公里外「僅三天可見」與老花鏡後手寫拼音筆記本之間，中國式母子報喜不報憂的深沉牽掛。 ### Bilingual Lyrics: [00:15] 凌晨兩點的寫字樓 | Two in the morning at the office [00:18] 盒飯已經涼透 | My takeaway dinner has gone cold [00:21] 剛被客戶打回的方案 | The client sent my proposal back again [00:24] 改到了第七個年頭 | The revisions have reached their seventh year [00:28] 胃裡一陣陣抽痛 | My stomach aches in waves [00:31] 突然覺得好想家 | And suddenly I miss home so much [00:36] 鬼使神差打開微信 | Without thinking, I open WeChat [00:38] 點開了置頂的那個她 | And tap her chat, pinned at the top [00:43] 我在輸入框裡敲下 | I type into the message box [00:45] 媽 | Mom [00:45] 我最近真的好累 | I've been so tired lately [00:49] 還沒等大拇指按出去 | Before my thumb can press send [00:52] 眼淚先砸在屏幕周圍 | Tears fall around the screen [00:56] 想了想她高血糖的身體 | I think of her high blood sugar [00:59] 和夜裡容易驚醒的覺 | And how easily she wakes at night [01:03] 我長按了撤回鍵 | I hold down to recall the message [01:06] 換成一個咧嘴笑的表情包 | And send a big smiling sticker instead [01:10] 第二天清晨七點 | At seven the next morning [01:12] 手機連著響了三聲提示音 | My phone chimes three times in a row [01:14] 是一段六十秒的方言語音 | A sixty-second message in our hometown dialect [01:17] 帶著廚房切菜的背景音 | With the sound of chopping vegetables behind her [01:21] 我趕著擠上早高峰的地鐵 | I squeeze onto the crowded morning subway [01:23] 嫌六十秒太長沒耐心聽 | Too impatient to listen for a whole minute [01:25] 只匆匆回了兩個字在忙 | I quickly reply, 'Busy' [01:28] 就把手機收進了風衣 | And slip my phone into my coat [01:32] 可到了深夜我才點開 | Only late that night do I press play [01:34] 聽見她在那頭小心翼翼 | And hear how carefully she speaks [01:39] 她說昨晚看見你撤回了一條 | She says, 'I saw you recall a message last night' [01:42] 媽一夜沒睡踏實 | 'I couldn't sleep well all night' [01:46] 如果你在外面受了委屈 | 'If someone has hurt you out there' [01:49] 千萬別一個人悶在心裡 | 'Please don't keep it all inside' [01:53] 原來我們總以為 | We always thought [01:55] 把脆弱藏進僅三天可見 | Hiding our hurt behind 'Visible for three days' [02:00] 就能瞞過那個 | Could fool the eyes of someone [02:02] 把你從小看到大的人的雙眼 | Who has watched us grow since we were small [02:07] 我撤回了一行怕她擔心的字 | I recalled a line because I feared she'd worry [02:11] 她卻在老花鏡後面 | Behind her reading glasses [02:13] 猜了一整夜的心事 | She wondered all night what was on my mind [02:15] 這世上最心酸的默契 | The saddest unspoken understanding [02:18] 是隔著兩千公里的距離 | Spans two thousand kilometers [02:21] 我們在電話這頭報喜不報憂 | We share the good news and hide the pain [02:25] 她在電話那頭欲言又止 | While she leaves her worries unsaid [02:32] 你也一樣吧 | Perhaps you do it too [02:34] 把最壞的脾氣留給了最親的人 | Save your worst temper for those you love the most [02:39] 她說多穿件毛衣你嫌煩 | You bristle when she says to wear a sweater [02:42] 她轉來的養生文章你從不點開看 | And never open the health articles she sends [02:45] 可你不知道 | But you don't know [02:47] 她為了學會用智能手機給你發視頻 | To learn to send you videos on her smartphone [02:50] 在筆記本上畫滿了箭頭 | She filled a notebook with arrows [02:53] 記滿了歪歪扭扭的拼音 | And lines of shaky handwritten pinyin [02:59] 她怕打擾我們工作 | Afraid to disturb us at work [03:02] 把那句媽想你了刪了又打、打了又刪 | She types 'Mom misses you,' deletes it, and types it again [03:07] 最後只敢發來一張 | In the end, all she dares to send [03:09] 陽台上剛開花的仙人掌照片 | Is a picture of the cactus blooming on her balcony [03:13] 她從來不要我們飛得多高 | She never asks how high we can fly [03:17] 只怕我們飛得太累 | Only fears we'll grow too tired [03:19] 你撤回的每一句嘆息 | Every sigh you have recalled [03:21] 她都聽見了回音 | Has found its echo in her heart [03:28] 原來我們總以為 | We always thought [03:31] 把脆弱藏進僅三天可見 | Hiding our hurt behind 'Visible for three days' [03:35] 就能瞞過那個 | Could fool the eyes of someone [03:37] 把你從小看到大的人的雙眼 | Who has watched us grow since we were small [03:42] 我撤回了一行怕她擔心的字 | I recalled a line because I feared she'd worry [03:46] 她卻在老花鏡後面 | Behind her reading glasses [03:48] 猜了一整夜的心事 | She wondered all night what was on my mind [03:50] 今晚別再撤回了 | Don't recall it tonight [03:52] 撥通那個爛熟於心的號碼 | Dial the number you know by heart [03:56] 趁那頭還有人接聽 | While someone still answers at the other end [04:01] 趁我們還能喊出一聲媽 | While we can still call her 'Mom' [04:08] 媽 | Mom [04:09] 我週末回家吃飯。 | I'll come home for dinner this weekend. ## 5633次綠皮慢車 (Green Slow Train 5633) — 挑灯放映室 / 独立单曲 - URL: https://chorab.art/tracks/green-slow-train-5633/ - Cinema Still: https://chorab.art/assets/img/stills/green-slow-train-5633.webp - YouTube 4K MV: https://youtu.be/iKP2K1-aT2I - Instrumentation: Warm harmonica, acoustic folk guitar, accordion, upright bass, chamber strings, railway track rhythm - Summary (EN): "Green Slow Train 5633" documents the real-life public-service slow train running 353 kilometers between Puxiong and Panzhihua along the Chengdu–Kunming Railway through Sichuan's Daliangshan mountains. Contrasting China's 350 km/h Fuxing high-speed rail with an eleven-hour journey across twenty-seven rural stops—where fares as low as 2 RMB have remained unchanged for fifty years, rear seats make space for villagers' bamboo baskets, and Yi schoolchildren study at carriage tables—the folk arrangement pairs warm harmonica, acoustic guitar, accordion, strings, and rhythmic rail clatter. - Summary (ZH): 山外復興號高鐵飛馳於時速三百五十公里，大涼山深谷裡卻仍晃悠悠開著從普雄到攀枝花的5633次公益綠皮慢車：十一個鐘頭停靠二十七個小站，最低兩元票價五十年未漲，拆去後排座椅容納老鄉的竹背簍與彝族女孩寫作業的小桌。口琴、木吉他與鐵軌節奏交織，記錄不落下任何一個普通人的時代溫度。 ### Bilingual Lyrics: [00:15] 山外面的復興號 | Beyond the mountains, the Fuxing trains [00:17] 已經跑到了時速三百五十公里 | Already race at 350 kilometers an hour [00:21] 可大涼山的深谷裡 | But deep in the valleys of Daliangshan [00:23] 還晃晃悠悠開著一趟五六三三次綠皮 | The green train 5633 still gently rocks along [00:26] 沒有華麗的商務座 | There are no luxurious business-class seats [00:29] 車廂後排拆掉了椅子騰出空地 | Seats at the rear were removed to make room [00:32] 為了放得下老鄉的竹背簍 | For the villagers' bamboo baskets [00:36] 和剛從泥裡拔出來的青菜蘿蔔 | And greens and radishes just pulled from the soil [00:39] 阿婆懷裡揣著兩隻老母雞 | Grandma holds two old hens close [00:42] 不好意思地往角落裡縮 | And shyly edges toward the corner [00:45] 列車員笑著走過來 | The conductor walks over with a smile [00:48] 幫她把沉甸甸的麻袋往行李架上托 | And helps lift her heavy sack onto the luggage rack [00:51] 從普雄到攀枝花 | From Puxiong to Panzhihua [00:53] 三百五十多公里要走上十一個鐘頭 | Over 350 kilometers take eleven hours [00:57] 最高票價二十五塊五 | The highest fare is 25.5 yuan [01:00] 最低只要兩塊錢 | The lowest, just two yuan [01:03] 整整五十年沒漲過 | Unchanged for fifty years [01:08] 五號車廂的桌板旁 | At a small table in carriage five [01:11] 坐著背書包的彝族小姑娘 | Sits a Yi schoolgirl with her backpack [01:14] 她在搖晃的燈光下寫作業 | She does her homework in the swaying light [01:17] 鉛筆尖沙沙地響 | Her pencil softly scratches the page [01:20] 二十年前她爸爸也是坐著這趟車 | Twenty years ago, her father rode this train too [01:23] 第一次走出大山的圍牆 | Leaving the mountains for the very first time [01:26] 這趟車走得真的很慢 | This train truly travels slowly [01:27] 慢到二十七個小站 | Through twenty-seven little stations [01:29] 站站都要停靠 | Stopping at every one [01:32] 有時看見山坡上趕車的老鄉還在招手奔跑 | Sometimes villagers run down the hillside, waving to catch it [01:38] 司機會特意鬆開油門 | The driver eases off the throttle [01:40] 在站台上多等那寶貴的兩分半鐘 | And waits those precious extra two and a half minutes [01:45] 在這個所有人都拼命加速的時代裡 | In an age when everyone is racing to go faster [01:52] 總有一趟慢車 | There is still a slow train [01:54] 願意為了走得慢的人停在原地 | Willing to wait for those who move more slowly [01:57] 它不嫌棄背簍裡的泥巴 | It does not mind the mud on their baskets [02:01] 也不算計那兩塊錢的票價 | Nor begrudge a fare of just two yuan [02:03] 它只知道這深山裡的幾百個村落 | It only knows these hundreds of mountain villages [02:07] 需要一條走出大山的橋 | Need a bridge to the world beyond [02:10] 所謂時代的體面 | The dignity of an age [02:12] 從來不是看跑得最快的人去了哪裡 | Is not how far its fastest travelers have gone [02:16] 而是看最慢的那趟車 | It is whether the slowest train [02:18] 有沒有把任何一個普通人落下 | Has left a single ordinary person behind [02:37] 車窗外的索瑪花開了又謝 | Outside the window, azaleas bloom and fade [02:40] 老車長的頭髮已經斑白 | And the old conductor's hair has turned gray [02:43] 有人坐著它去縣城賣掉了一年的收成 | Some ride to town to sell a year's harvest [02:47] 給孫子買回新鞋 | And bring new shoes home for a grandson [02:49] 有人坐著它考上了遠方的大學 | Some ride away to a distant university [02:53] 把希望帶回了山寨 | And bring hope back to their mountain village [02:55] 鐵軌哐當哐當地響 | The rails keep clattering beneath us [02:59] 像是大地最溫暖的心跳 | Like the earth's warmest heartbeat [03:04] 在這個所有人都拼命加速的時代裡 | In an age when everyone is racing to go faster [03:10] 總有一趟慢車 | There is still a slow train [03:13] 願意為了走得慢的人停在原地 | Willing to wait for those who move more slowly [03:17] 它不嫌棄背簍裡的泥巴 | It does not mind the mud on their baskets [03:20] 也不算計那兩塊錢的票價 | Nor begrudge a fare of just two yuan [03:23] 它只知道這深山裡的幾百個村落 | It only knows these hundreds of mountain villages [03:26] 需要一條走出大山的橋 | Need a bridge to the world beyond [03:29] 所謂時代的體面 | The dignity of an age [03:31] 從來不是看跑得最快的人去了哪裡 | Is not how far its fastest travelers have gone [03:35] 而是看最慢的那趟車 | It is whether the slowest train [03:37] 有沒有把任何一個普通人落下 | Has left a single ordinary person behind [03:46] 前方到站 | Our next stop [03:50] 春天站。 | Spring. ## 故宮修錶人 (The Clock Restorer in the Forbidden City) — 挑灯放映室 / 独立单曲 - URL: https://chorab.art/tracks/the-clock-restorer-in-the-forbidden-city/ - Cinema Still: https://chorab.art/assets/img/stills/the-clock-restorer-in-the-forbidden-city.webp - YouTube 4K MV: https://youtu.be/DYPNm7a2eUs - Instrumentation: Mechanical clockwork ticks & chimes, celesta, guqin, felted piano, solo cello, warm chamber strings - Summary (EN): "The Clock Restorer in the Forbidden City" pays tribute to the master horological conservators working inside the quiet Xisansuo courtyards of Beijing's Palace Museum. Contrasting modern three-second short-video impatience beyond the red palace walls with forty autumns spent beneath crabapple and ginkgo trees, the narrative follows the kerosene brush-cleaning and three-winter gear polishing of an eighteenth-century Qianlong gilt-bronze writing automaton clock. Delicate mechanical clockwork ticks, celesta chimes, guqin, felted piano, and solo cello build to the moment a century-silent brass crane beats its wings and chimes over the Forbidden City. - Summary (ZH): 推開紫禁城西三所木門，紅牆隔開三秒滑走一條短片的喧囂，院裡老海棠已陪匠人走過四十個秋天。工作臺上攤著比米粒還細的千枚銅齒輪，毛刷蘸煤油洗去乾隆年間銅鍍金寫字人鐘的百年浮塵；鐘琴、古琴、大提琴與精密齒輪滴答聲相扣，定格銅鶴重振雙翅、清脆鐘聲驚起故宮白鴿的一瞬。 ### Bilingual Lyrics: [00:17] 推開紫禁城西三所的木門，把滿街的車水馬龍關在紅牆外面 | I open the Xisansuo workshop's wooden door, leaving the traffic beyond the red walls. [00:29] 院子裡的老海棠樹，我已經看了整整四十個秋天 | I have watched the old crabapple tree in this courtyard for forty autumns. [00:35] 工作台上攤著上千個銅齒輪，最小的比一粒米還要細微 | A thousand brass gears lie on my bench; the smallest is finer than a grain of rice. [00:42] 這座乾隆年間的銅鍍金寫字人鐘，已經在庫房裡睡了一百多年 | This Qianlong-era gilt-bronze writing clock has slept in storage for over a century. [00:55] 我戴上放大鏡，拿起比頭髮絲還細的毛刷蘸著煤油 | I put on my magnifier and dip a hair-fine brush into kerosene. [01:01] 一點一點洗去兩個世紀的灰塵，像在和兩百年前的匠人握手 | Wiping away two centuries of dust, I shake hands with a craftsman long gone. [01:12] 紅牆外面的世界太快了，快得刷一條視頻只給三秒鐘耐心 | Beyond the red walls, the world gives a video only three seconds of patience. [01:18] 稍微加載慢了一點，手指一滑就換了下一段風景 | One slow load, one swipe, and a different scene appears. [01:25] 可在我這張小小的木桌前，磨平一個半毫米的齒輪毛刺 | But at this small wooden bench, smoothing a half-millimetre burr on a gear [01:31] 就要坐在冷板凳上，安安靜靜守上整整三個冬天 | can mean sitting on a hard stool through three quiet winters. [01:38] 徒弟問我，師父，一輩子只做這一件事會不會覺得孤單 | My apprentice asks, 'Master, is a lifetime spent on one thing lonely?' [01:44] 我指著窗外飄落的銀杏葉，笑著對他說，孩子你往細裡看 | I point to the falling ginkgo leaves. 'Look more closely, my child.' [01:50] 當你把心慢下來，每一顆螺絲的紋路裡都藏著浩瀚的宇宙 | Slow your heart, and every screw thread holds an immense universe. [02:04] 牆外的人在追趕時間，牆裡的我在修補時間 | Outside these walls, they chase time. Inside, I mend it. [02:10] 用半輩子的白髮，去換一座百年古鐘重新蘇醒的瞬間 | Half a lifetime of grey hair, for the moment an ancient clock wakes again. [02:17] 當最後一根發條上緊，停擺百年的銅鶴重新扇動翅膀 | The final spring is wound; a brass crane stirs its wings after a century. [02:24] 清脆的鐘聲穿過故宮的紅牆，驚起了一群飛向藍天的白鴿 | A clear chime crosses the palace walls, sending white doves into the blue. [02:30] 那一刻我聽見時間轉過身來，輕輕對我說了一聲謝謝 | Then I hear time turn around and whisper, 'Thank you.' [03:07] 其實人生也像一座精密的鐘錶，偶爾也會卡殼、也會生鏽 | Life is like a finely made clock: sometimes it jams, sometimes it rusts. [03:13] 如果你最近覺得走不動了，別逼著自己帶傷狂奔 | If you feel unable to go on, do not force yourself to run while wounded. [03:20] 不妨在熱鬧的世界裡，給自己找一間安靜的小院 | Find yourself a quiet courtyard within the noisy world. [03:26] 慢下來，把心裡的灰塵擦一擦，把磨損的齒輪修一修 | Slow down. Wipe the dust from your heart and mend its worn gears. [03:34] 牆外的人在追趕時間，牆裡的我在修補時間 | Outside these walls, they chase time. Inside, I mend it. [03:39] 用半輩子的白髮，去換一座百年古鐘重新蘇醒的瞬間 | Half a lifetime of grey hair, for the moment an ancient clock wakes again. [03:45] 別怕走得慢，只要手裡的活兒是滾燙的、心是定的 | Do not fear a slow pace, if your work is alive and your heart is steady. [03:53] 那些你默默打磨的歲月，終會在某一天為你清脆地敲響 | The years you polish in silence will one day ring out, clear and bright. [04:06] 慢一點，時間會等你。 | Slow down. Time will wait for you. ## 有貓的人 (People with Cats) — 挑灯放映室 / 独立单曲 - URL: https://chorab.art/tracks/people-with-cats/ - Cinema Still: https://chorab.art/assets/img/stills/people-with-cats.webp - YouTube 4K MV: https://youtu.be/Hpq7OoF2zXk - Instrumentation: Fingerpicked acoustic guitar, warm felt piano, pizzicato & legato strings, light brushed percussion - Summary (EN): "People with Cats" is a tender narrative ballad about contemporary urban companionship and the quiet, unjudging dignity cats grant modern adults. Moving from aloof pink paw pads, empty cardboard boxes, fur-dusted suit trousers, and a rainy-night veterinary visit with an IV-taped paw, to three household cats gathering at midnight around pillow, quilt corner, and bed foot with low comforting purrs, the song reflects how wordless companions turn vast, conditional cities into home, scored for fingerpicked acoustic guitar, warm felt piano, and gentle chamber strings. - Summary (ZH): 喊十聲名字只動一動耳尖、放著昂貴貓窩偏縮進紙箱，卻在每一次關門外守候、在雨夜病中用打著留置針的小爪勾住手指。當夜裡十二點熄燈，三隻小貓分別窩上枕邊、被角與床尾發出呼嚕聲；原聲木吉他、溫暖鋼琴與輕柔提琴鋪陳，寫盡都市成年人與貓之間不問輸贏、恰到好處的一米溫柔。 ### Bilingual Lyrics: [00:14] 你喊它十聲名字 | You call its name ten times [00:17] 它連頭都懶得回一下 | It cannot even be bothered to turn [00:20] 只把耳朵尖輕輕動一動 | Only the tips of its ears give a little twitch [00:23] 繼續望著窗外的晚霞 | As it keeps watching the evening sky [00:26] 你給它買最貴的窩 | You buy it the finest bed [00:29] 它偏偏縮進拆開的紙箱裡 | Yet it curls up in an empty cardboard box [00:33] 你想伸手把它緊緊摟進懷裡 | You reach out, wanting to hold it close [00:36] 它卻用粉紅的肉墊推開你的下巴 | But its soft pink paw pads push against your chin [00:40] 它總是這樣 | That is how it has always been [00:41] 不肯給你太滿的熱情 | Never giving you too much affection [00:45] 像極了這人世間 | Just like so many of us [00:47] 每一個不擅長表達愛意的成年人 | Grown-ups who do not know how to show our love [00:52] 可只要你轉身去廚房倒水 | But whenever you turn toward the kitchen for water [00:55] 或者在浴室關上門 | Or close the bathroom door [00:59] 推開門的那一刻 | The moment you open it again [01:01] 它永遠端端正正守在門縫外頭 | There it sits, waiting patiently outside [01:06] 當初嘴上說著嫌麻煩 | At first I said they would be too much trouble [01:09] 是因為孩子喜歡才把它們抱回家 | We only brought them home because the children loved them [01:12] 一轉眼三年過去 | Three years passed in the blink of an eye [01:13] 孩子的書包越來越重 | The children's schoolbags grew heavier [01:16] 房門也漸漸關上 | And their bedroom doors began to close [01:18] 最後每天清晨添糧換水的人 | In the end, the one filling bowls each morning [01:21] 不知不覺變成了我自己 | Had somehow become me [01:25] 西裝褲上總是沾著粘不完的毛 | There is always more fur on my work trousers [01:28] 下班回家先蹲在貓砂盆前忙活 | And I come home to kneel beside the litter tray [01:33] 直到它生病不吃不喝的那天夜裡 | Until that night it fell ill and would not eat or drink [01:36] 窗外下著冷冷的雨 | While cold rain fell outside [01:40] 我抱著航空箱跑進醫院 | I rushed into the clinic, carrier in my arms [01:42] 手心緊張得全是汗滴 | My palms were damp with worry [01:46] 看著它剃掉毛、打著留置針的小爪子 | I saw its little shaved paw with an IV taped in place [01:50] 輕輕勾住我的手指頭 | Gently curl around my finger [01:52] 那一刻我才突然發現 | Only then did I suddenly realize [01:54] 這個平時高冷的小傢伙 | This little creature, so often aloof [01:56] 早就住進了我的命裡 | Had long since made a home inside my life [02:00] 它從來不會撲上來討好你 | It never throws itself at you to please you [02:03] 卻永遠停在離你一米遠的地方 | Yet it always stays just a meter away [02:06] 在你對著電腦嘆氣的時候 | When you sigh in front of your computer [02:09] 安安靜靜陪你熬過漫長的夜光 | It quietly keeps you company through the long night [02:13] 白天的它裝作跟你不熟 | By day it acts as though it hardly knows you [02:16] 可每當夜裡十二點關上了燈 | But when the lights go out at midnight [02:20] 一個窩在我的枕頭邊 | One curls up beside my pillow [02:22] 一個壓著我的被子一角 | One settles on the corner of my quilt [02:24] 還有一隻輕輕跳上床尾 | And one hops softly onto the foot of the bed [02:26] 發出呼嚕呼嚕的聲響 | With a low, comforting purr [02:29] 原來不是我們在收留它們 | It turns out we are not the ones giving them shelter [02:32] 是這幾個不會說話的小傢伙 | These little creatures, without a word [02:36] 用那一點若即若離的溫柔 | With their gentle, almost distant tenderness [02:39] 替我們把冷掉的人間捂暖 | Are warming our world back to life [02:59] 我也常在想 | I often find myself wondering [03:01] 為什麼這幾年養貓的人越來越多 | Why so many more people now share their lives with cats [03:05] 為什麼偌大的城市裡 | Why, in a city so vast [03:07] 有人不願再提及遠方 | Some no longer speak of faraway places [03:09] 卻把一隻貓當成故鄉 | Yet find a home in a cat [03:12] 大概是因為大人的世界 | Perhaps it is because, in the adult world [03:15] 連擁抱都帶著沉重的條件 | Even a hug can come with heavy conditions [03:18] 老闆看你的結果 | Your boss measures your results [03:19] 生活催你的賬單 | Life keeps calling in its bills [03:21] 連哭泣都怕被人看見 | And even tears must be hidden away [03:25] 只有貓最懂成年人的體面 | Only cats understand the dignity we try to keep [03:28] 它從不追問你今天贏了還是輸了 | They never ask whether you won or lost today [03:31] 它不逼你笑 | They do not make you smile [03:32] 也不嫌你煩 | They never find you a burden [03:34] 只是保持著剛剛好的距離 | They simply stay at just the right distance [03:38] 用一聲輕輕的呼嚕 | And with one gentle purr [03:39] 告訴你 | They tell you [03:41] 沒關係 | It is all right [03:42] 我一直都在這裡 | I have been here all along [03:46] 我們擁有外面的山海、熱鬧的人群和忙不完的四季 | We have mountains, seas, crowds, and endless busy seasons [03:53] 而它們短短的十幾年光陰 | But in their brief dozen or so years [03:56] 睜開眼閉上眼 | With eyes open or eyes closed [03:58] 全世界只有一個你 | Their whole world holds one you [04:02] 它從來不會撲上來討好你 | It never throws itself at you to please you [04:06] 卻永遠停在離你一米遠的地方 | Yet it always stays just a meter away [04:09] 在你受盡了委屈不想說話的夜裡 | On nights when hurt has left you without words [04:12] 替你守住最後一點光亮 | It guards that last small light for you [04:16] 白天的它裝作跟你不熟 | By day it acts as though it hardly knows you [04:19] 可每當夜裡十二點關上了燈 | But when the lights go out at midnight [04:23] 它們就悄悄靠攏過來 | They quietly gather close [04:25] 守著你進入夢鄉 | And watch over you as you drift to sleep [04:26] 敬每一個在深夜裡 | Here is to everyone who, late at night [04:28] 為小傢伙鏟屎添水的有心人 | Fills a bowl and cleans a tray for a little companion [04:32] 只要枕邊還有這溫暖的呼嚕聲在響 | As long as that warm purring sounds beside the pillow [04:35] 明天的風雨再大 | However fierce tomorrow's storms may be [04:38] 我們也還有力氣再去闖一闖 | We still have the strength to face the world again [04:52] 睡吧 | Sleep now [04:54] 小傢伙們 | Little ones [04:56] 今晚我也在 | I am here tonight, too ## 不肯低頭的善良 (Unyielding Kindness) — 挑灯放映室 / 独立单曲 - URL: https://chorab.art/tracks/unyielding-kindness/ - Cinema Still: https://chorab.art/assets/img/stills/unyielding-kindness.webp - YouTube 4K MV: https://youtu.be/4wXv6UejRPU - Instrumentation: Intimate felt piano, solo cello, warm chamber strings, acoustic guitar arpeggios, subtle midnight room ambience - Summary (EN): Part of the Lantern Screening Room series by CHÖRAB · SHADOW & SOUND, Unyielding Kindness bridges classical Chinese east-wind lyricism with contemporary urban solitude. Written and produced by Chörab (Ming Qu), this narrative ballad contrasts the composed, well-dressed daytime persona—often praised by colleagues for steady emotional restraint—against the quiet midnight hours when unspoken anxieties and held-back tears surface beneath the moonlight. Scored for intimate felt piano, solo cello, acoustic guitar, and warm chamber strings, the piece frames sincere grief in a cold world not as weakness, but as an unyielding moral tenderness kept alive through ordinary hardship. - Summary (ZH): 《不肯低頭的善良》屬「挑燈放映室」欄目，與《我是李煜》的東風意象遙相呼應，將視角轉回當代都市深夜的個體處境。作品對照白日裡衣著得體、被稱許為「情緒穩定」的成年人面具，以及夜深人靜時獨自包紮傷口的真實脆弱；在溫潤鋼琴與室內弦樂的推進中，寫出平凡人擦乾眼淚、天亮後依然迎風趕路的生命韌性。 ### Bilingual Lyrics: [00:10] 隔著一千年的月光，我看見屏幕前暗自神傷的你 | Across a thousand years of moonlight, I see you grieving quietly at your screen. [00:19] 你也一樣吧，在深夜裡懷念過某一段回不去的舊時光 | Haven't you, too, in the quiet of night, longed for days you can never return to? [00:34] 也許是一段無疾而終的感情，也許是年少時沒能實現的夢 | Perhaps a love that quietly faded, or a youthful dream that never came true. [00:45] 別笑我懦弱，能在薄情的世界裡深情地痛哭一場 | Don't call me weak. A heartfelt cry in a world so cold [00:56] 本身就是一種不肯向命運低頭的善良 | is itself a kindness that refuses to bow to fate. [01:10] 白天的你穿著合身的衣裳，在人群裡不動聲色地忙 | By day, in your well-fitted clothes, you quietly stay busy in the crowd. [01:20] 別人誇你情緒穩定，誇你像座不會倒下的山崗 | They praise your calm, and call you a hill that will never fall. [01:31] 可只有今晚的月亮知道，你嚥下了多少沒說的慌張 | Only tonight's moon knows how much silent panic you've swallowed. [01:44] 那些為了體面忍住的眼淚，全都在夜深人靜時發燙 | The tears you held back to save face burn in the stillness of the night. [01:54] 敬那個在深夜裡，獨自把傷口包紮好的你 | Here's to you, alone late at night, binding up your own wounds. [02:06] 敬那個明明摔得滿身是泥，天亮後照樣迎風趕路的你 | Here's to you, covered in mud from a fall, still walking into the wind at dawn. [02:17] 人生哪有什麼天生的堅強，不過是把眼淚擦乾再上場 | No one is born strong. We just wipe our tears and step up again. [02:30] 哪怕全世界都催著你快點長大、快點遺忘 | Even if the whole world tells you to grow up fast and hurry to forget, [02:39] 也請留一點溫柔，給當年那個滿眼星辰的少年郎 | save some tenderness for the boy you were, whose eyes were full of stars. [03:00] 別怕長夜漫漫，別怕無人問津 | Don't fear the endless night, or that no one seems to care. [03:06] 你走過的每一步彎路，都會變成照亮前方的光 | Every detour you've taken will turn into light on the road ahead. [03:19] 別笑自己懦弱，能在薄情的世界裡深情地痛哭一場 | Don't call yourself weak. A heartfelt cry in a world so cold [03:31] 本身就是一種不肯向命運低頭的善良 | is itself a kindness that refuses to bow to fate. [03:42] 痛痛快快哭過這一場東風之後 | Once you've cried your heart out in this east wind, [03:48] 明天推開門，去活出你此生最坦蕩的自由！ | tomorrow, open the door and live more freely and openly than ever! [04:04] 晚安，願你今夜好眠。 | Good night. May you sleep well tonight. ## 曲熱 (Chörab) — 一曲清净音 / 《曲热》专辑同名主打单曲 - URL: https://chorab.art/tracks/chorab/ - Cinema Still: https://chorab.art/assets/img/stills/chorab.webp - YouTube 4K MV: https://youtu.be/WpDbRW6I6qw - Instrumentation: Warm acoustic guitar, solo cello, Tibetan singing bowl harmonics, bamboo flute, gentle piano, Himalayan highland wind ambience - Summary (EN): Chörab (Tibetan: ཆོས་རབ་) is the eponymous origin work of CHÖRAB · SHADOW & SOUND within the A Song of Serenity series. Written by founder Ming Qu, it recounts an actual afternoon twenty years earlier in a courtyard beneath snow-capped Tibetan peaks, where an aged ascetic monk reached past devoted pilgrims to place a śarīra relic into an outsider's palm and bestow the name Chörab. Discovering two decades later in a yellowed Tibetan dictionary that the word means 'The Sublime Dharma,' the piece blends acoustic guitar, cello, singing bowl harmonics, and highland wind to ground spiritual truth in holding an umbrella for strangers after enduring heavy rain. - Summary (ZH): 《曲熱》（Chörab / ཆོས་རབ་）為「曲熱影畫」廠牌同名緣起之作，收錄於「一曲清淨音」欄目。詞曲記敘主理人二十年前於雪山舊院偶遇藏地苦行老僧、獲贈一粒舍利並賜名「曲熱」的真實往事；二十年後翻閱藏文詞典，方知其意為「殊勝的法」。作品以溫潤原聲吉他、低音大提琴與高原空靈環境聲鋪陳，將佛法真義落回「淋過大雨仍替路人撐傘」的人間悲憫。 ### Bilingual Lyrics: [00:35] 二十年前的午後 | Twenty years ago, one afternoon [00:40] 雪山下的舊院落 | In an old courtyard beneath the snowy mountains [00:46] 年邁的苦行僧，席地而坐 | An aged ascetic sat upon the ground [00:53] 身邊圍滿虔誠的人 | Surrounded by people deep in faith [01:01] 唯獨我，是個局外客 | Only I stood there as an outsider [01:05] 不懂經文，也不曾禮佛 | I knew no scriptures and had never worshipped [01:10] 老僧卻穿過人群，握住我的手 | Yet the old monk reached through the crowd and held my hand [01:16] 掌心留下一粒舍利子 | He left a single sacred relic in my palm [01:20] 賜我一個名字，叫 ཆོས་རབ་（曲熱） | And gave me a name: Chörab [01:58] 這一走，就是二十年 | Then twenty years passed on the road [02:02] 在十丈紅塵裡起落 | Through the rises and falls of this worldly life [02:07] 熬過長夜，也吹過冷風 | I endured long nights and felt the cold wind [02:13] 直到鬢角染上白霜 | Until silver touched my temples [02:20] 今夜挑燈，把半生寫成歌 | Tonight, by lamplight, I turn half a life into song [02:27] 翻開泛黃的藏文詞典 | I open a yellowed Tibetan dictionary [02:33] ཆོས་རབ་（曲熱）二字，在燈下亮起 | Chörab glows on the page beneath the lamp [02:37] 原來它叫，殊勝的法 | It means the sublime Dharma [02:44] 二十年前種下的因 | A seed sown twenty years ago [02:48] 化作今夜掌心的燈 | Becomes the light I hold tonight [02:52] 何為殊勝的法？ | What is the sublime Dharma? [02:55] 不在高高在上的雲端 | It is not somewhere high above the clouds [02:59] 是你在紅塵淋過大雨 | It is being drenched by life's heavy rain [03:03] 還願替路人撐一把傘 | And still offering a stranger your umbrella [03:05] 一曲清音，一幅影畫 | A clear song, a moving image [03:09] 渡人渡己，便是歸途 | To help others and ourselves across is to find our way home [03:18] 一念善起，萬山雪融 | One kind thought, and snow melts on a thousand mountains [03:26] 一燈能除，千年暗室 | One lamp can light a room dark for a thousand years [03:32] 有所感，有所知，皆是清淨 | All we feel and know can return to stillness [03:40] 悲欣交集，皆是 ཆོས་རབ་（曲熱） | Sorrow and joy together—this too is Chörab [03:48] 二十年前種下的因 | A seed sown twenty years ago [03:52] 化作今夜掌心的燈 | Becomes the light I hold tonight [03:56] 何為殊勝的法？ | What is the sublime Dharma? [03:59] 不在高高在上的雲端 | It is not somewhere high above the clouds [04:03] 是你在紅塵淋過大雨 | It is being drenched by life's heavy rain [04:07] 還願替路人撐一把傘 | And still offering a stranger your umbrella [04:10] ཆོས་རབ་（曲熱）影畫，長夜渡船 | Chörab Shadow & Sound, a ferry through the long night [04:14] 心有雪山，自開蓮花 | With snowy mountains in your heart, a lotus blooms [04:24] Chörab · ཆོས་རབ་（曲熱）。 | Chörab, Chörab [04:31] 二十年前老僧給我的那粒舍利 | The relic the old monk gave me twenty years ago [04:37] 今夜，分給聽歌的你。 | Tonight, I share it with you who hear this song ## 心有雪山 (Snow Mountain in the Heart) — 一曲清净音 / 独立单曲 - URL: https://chorab.art/tracks/snow-mountain-in-the-heart/ - Cinema Still: https://chorab.art/assets/img/stills/snow-mountain-in-the-heart.webp - YouTube 4K MV: https://youtu.be/MuwS9OhUueU - Instrumentation: Tibetan dungchen long horn resonance, singing bowls, four-syllable liturgical vocal chant, solo cello, ambient piano, highland wind - Summary (EN): Created as a contemplative sister work to Chörab within the A Song of Serenity series by CHÖRAB · SHADOW & SOUND, Snow Mountain in the Heart moves from neon-lit urban exhaustion toward the inner stillness of high-altitude Tibetan landscapes. Across spacious, unhurried phrasing, imagery of golden sunlit peaks at dawn (Rizhao Jinshan), a single yak-butter lamp, wind-stirred prayer flags, and a traditional four-syllable Buddhist liturgical chant bridge monastic serenity with everyday secular life. Deep Tibetan dungchen horn resonance, singing bowl overtones, solo cello, and crystalline vocals anchor its meditative soundscape. - Summary (ZH): 《心有雪山》屬「一曲清淨音」欄目，與廠牌同名作《曲熱》互為姊妹篇。作品從都市霓虹夜色裡的呼吸縫隙起筆，轉入日照金山、一盞酥油燈、四言梵唄吟唱與風過經幡的藏地意象，指出真正的淨土不在萬里之外的跋涉，而在心念澄澈的當下。編曲融合低沉高原長號、頌缽泛音、大提琴與清澈人聲，營造出安住人間的清涼定境。 ### Bilingual Lyrics: [00:23] 塵世多喧囂，人海如潮汐 | The mortal world roars with noise, its crowds rising and ebbing like tides. [00:46] 你在霓虹的夜裡，尋找呼吸的縫隙 | Beneath the neon night, you search for a narrow space to breathe. [01:08] 閉上眼，聽那遠方吹來的風 | Close your eyes and listen to the wind blowing from afar. [01:31] 有一座不化的雪山，一直在你心裡 | An unmelting snow mountain has stood within your heart all along. [01:54] 不必跋涉萬里，去追問歸期 | There is no need to trek ten thousand miles to ask when you may return. [02:17] 當心念澄澈，腳下便是淨土之地 | When a single thought grows clear, the ground beneath your feet becomes pure land. [02:40] 看日照金山，融化歲月的寒意 | Watch morning sunlight turn the peaks to gold, melting the chill of the years. [03:02] 一盞酥油燈，照亮未曾蒙塵的自己 | A single yak-butter lamp illuminates the self that dust has never touched. [03:25] 【四言梵唄吟唱】 | [Four-syllable Buddhist liturgical chant] [03:48] 心有雪山，不染纖塵 | With a snow mountain in the heart, not a speck of dust can cling. [04:11] 見天見地，見眾生心 | Seeing heaven and earth, seeing into the hearts of all living beings. [04:34] 風過經幡，萬事皆輕 | When wind passes through the prayer flags, all worldly burdens grow light. [04:56] 行於人間，自在清明 | Walking through the human world, unhurried, free, and luminous. ## 凌晨兩點的巡航 (2 AM Midnight Cruise) — 夜间巡航辑 / 《凌晨两点的巡航》专辑 - URL: https://chorab.art/tracks/2am-midnight-cruise/ - Cinema Still: https://chorab.art/assets/img/stills/2am-midnight-cruise.webp - YouTube 4K MV: https://youtu.be/ZwNZoUVwWZs - ISRC: QTAF22613224 - Instrumentation: Minimalist reverberant electric guitar, deep sub-bass synth, steady brushed/electronic pulse drums, ambient highway pad, understated midnight vocals - Summary (EN): Opening the album Midnight Cruise by CHÖRAB · SHADOW & SOUND, "2 AM Midnight Cruise" pairs minimalist reverberant electric guitar with a warm, deep sub-bass pulse and steady downtempo percussion. Composed and produced by Chörab (Ming Qu), the five-minute piece captures the unhurried rhythm of cruising at 110 km/h past highway tollbooths, damp asphalt lane markers, and three-kilometer amber-lit tunnels while city lights fade in the rearview mirror. Understated vocals drift seamlessly into spacious post-rock instrumental passages, suited for 2 a.m. highway driving, late-night coding, and quiet solitary decompression. - Summary (ZH): 作為《凌晨兩點的巡航》專輯開篇主打曲，本作以極簡混響電吉他泛音與深潛重低音構築勻速行進的夜間聲場。鼓組保持克制而穩定的律動，如同定速一百一十公里的引擎呼吸；人聲低語穿行於微濕瀝青路面、綠色高架路牌與三公里橘黃隧道頂燈之間，將白晝喧囂留在後視鏡裡，鋪開無壓力的深夜獨駕意境。 ### Bilingual Lyrics: [00:36] 過了收費站，把遠光切回近光 | Past the tollbooth, switching high beams back to low [00:46] 儀表盤調暗，定速巡航一百一 | Dimming the dashboard, cruise control set at one-ten [00:54] 兩道車燈，貼著微濕的瀝青往前推 | Two headlights push forward along damp asphalt [01:03] 白色的虛線，一截一截 | Broken white lane lines, one by one, [01:08] 退進車底 | Slip beneath the wheels [01:47] 綠色的路牌，在頭頂一閃而過 | Green highway signs flash overhead [01:51] 距離下一個出口，還有四十公里 | Forty kilometers to the next exit [01:55] 後視鏡裡的那座城，已經只剩一點微紅 | In the rearview mirror, the city is only a faint red glow [02:00] 白天沒說完的話，沒回完的消息 | Words left unsaid by day, messages left unread [02:04] 都留在了三環以內 | Are all left behind inside the inner ring [02:07] 不趕時間 | In no rush for time, [02:09] 也不問歸期 | Asking nothing of when to return [02:12] 在這條沒有人的夜路裡 | Along this empty midnight road, [02:17] 風在窗外，心在車裡 | Wind outside the window, stillness inside the cabin [02:21] 只有引擎，替我呼吸 | Only the engine breathes in my stead [03:03] 駛進三公里的長隧道 | Gliding into a three-kilometer tunnel [03:07] 一排排橘黃的頂燈，從方向盤上掠過 | Rows of amber ceiling lights sweep across the wheel [03:12] 像按下靜音鍵的人間 | Like a world placed gently on mute [03:17] 只剩輪胎摩擦路面的聲音 | Leaving only the hum of tires against the road [03:20] 平穩，乾淨，誠實 | Steady, clean, and honest [03:25] 不趕時間 | In no rush for time, [03:27] 也不問歸期 | Asking nothing of when to return [03:29] 在這條沒有人的夜路裡 | Along this empty midnight road, [03:34] 風在窗外，心在車裡 | Wind outside the window, stillness inside the cabin [03:39] 只有引擎，替我呼吸 | Only the engine breathes in my stead [03:52] 衝出隧道口的那一秒 | The second the car clears the tunnel mouth, [03:55] 遠處的山脊，泛起一線極淡的灰白 | A faint thread of pale grey touches the distant ridge [04:04] 夜還沒醒 | The night has not yet woken, [04:08] 我也剛好清醒 | And my mind is quietly clear ## 藍色海岸線 (Blue Coastline) — 夜间巡航辑 / 《凌晨两点的巡航》专辑 - URL: https://chorab.art/tracks/blue-coastline/ - Cinema Still: https://chorab.art/assets/img/stills/blue-coastline.webp - YouTube 4K MV: https://youtu.be/UEu3pSZpJ8s - ISRC: QTAF22613225 - Instrumentation: Vintage Fender Rhodes electric piano, clean reverb-drenched electric guitar, laid-back bassline, brushed chillhop groove, subtle radio-static & ocean-wave textures - Summary (EN): Track two of Midnight Cruise by CHÖRAB · SHADOW & SOUND, "Blue Coastline" blends warm vintage Fender Rhodes electric piano chords with breezy, reverb-washed clean electric guitar and unhurried coastal chillout rhythms. Written and produced by Chörab (Ming Qu), the arrangement evokes rolling a car window down two inches beside midnight ink-blue surf, ice clinking softly in a cupholder, faint radio static on a wordless frequency, and a distant lighthouse blinking every five seconds. Crafted for coastal night drives, late-evening lounging, reading, and unpressured creative work. - Summary (ZH): 《藍色海岸線》以溫暖圓潤的復古 Fender Rhodes 電鋼琴鋪底，交織帶有些許海風混響的清亮電吉他與鬆弛鼓點。畫面沿著午夜濱海公路緩緩推進：車窗搖落兩寸，左手是靜默山影，右手是墨藍潮汐與每五秒閃爍一次的遠方燈塔，收音機微弱電流聲伴隨潮水呼吸，凝結成夏夜海邊漫遊的無重力時刻。 ### Bilingual Lyrics: [00:37] 把車窗，往下搖落兩寸 | Roll the window down two inches [00:45] 讓帶著鹽味的海風，吹亂額角 | Let the salt-tinged sea breeze tousle your hair [00:56] 杯架裡的冰塊，輕輕撞著玻璃杯壁 | Ice in the cupholder clinks softly against the glass [01:06] 氣泡往上升，時間往下沉 | Bubbles drift upward as time settles down [01:37] 左手邊是安靜的山影 | Quiet mountain silhouettes on the left, [01:42] 右手邊是墨藍色的潮水 | Ink-blue ocean tide on the right [01:48] 五公里外的燈塔，每五秒鐘 | Five kilometers out, a lighthouse, every five seconds, [01:53] 對著夜空，眨一次眼睛 | Blinks once against the night sky [01:56] Just let it drift | Just let it drift [01:59] 順著海浪的節拍 | Moving with the cadence of the waves [02:04] 什麼都不用想，什麼都不用猜 | Nothing left to overthink, nothing left to guess [02:15] 晚風很軟，夜色很寬 | The evening breeze is gentle, the night is wide [02:25] 這片海，今晚不打烊 | Tonight, this ocean never closes [02:51] 收音機調到一個沒有說話的頻段 | Tuning the radio to a station with no voices [02:58] 只有微弱的電流聲，和遠處的浪花 | Only faint static and distant surf remain [03:07] 潮水漫過沙灘，又慢慢退回深海 | The tide washes over sand, then recedes into the deep [03:18] 像一次深長的呼吸 | Like a single, unhurried breath [03:28] Just let it drift | Just let it drift [03:32] 順著海浪的節拍 | Moving with the cadence of the waves [03:36] 什麼都不用想，什麼都不用猜 | Nothing left to overthink, nothing left to guess [03:48] 晚風很軟，夜色很寬 | The evening breeze is gentle, the night is wide [03:58] 這片海，今晚不打烊 | Tonight, this ocean never closes [04:11] just let it drift | Just let it drift ## 三萬英尺的舷窗 (Window at 30,000 Feet) — 夜间巡航辑 / 《凌晨两点的巡航》专辑 - URL: https://chorab.art/tracks/window-at-30000-feet/ - Cinema Still: https://chorab.art/assets/img/stills/window-at-30000-feet.webp - YouTube 4K MV: https://youtu.be/bMofORjewd4 - ISRC: QTAF22613226 - Instrumentation: Crystalline analog synth arpeggios, warm stratospheric ambient pads, soft sub-bass pulse, airy electronic percussion, hushed vocal phrases - Summary (EN): Track three on Midnight Cruise by CHÖRAB · SHADOW & SOUND, "Window at 30,000 Feet" elevates the album's nocturnal journey into the quiet stratosphere. Composed and produced by Chörab (Ming Qu), crystalline analog synthesizer arpeggios and warm ambient pads build a weightless sonic cabin around window seat 32A after cabin lights dim. Its 4K visual motifs trace moonlit cloud seas at minus fifty degrees Celsius, golden grids of sleeping cities far below, and a red wingtip light pulsing against the Milky Way—suited for red-eye flights, offline focus, and restful night listening. - Summary (ZH): 《三萬英尺的舷窗》將夜航視角由地面公路抬升至平流層高空。編曲以晶瑩失重的類比合成器琶音與綿長環境音墊交織，模擬客艙燈光全暗後靠坐三十二A舷窗的靜謐聽感。窗外是零下五十度的雪原般月色雲海與偶爾掠過的金色城市網格，翼尖小紅燈一秒一秒在銀河裡閃爍，留出一段無信號、無打擾的雲端懸浮時光。 ### Bilingual Lyrics: [00:40] 機艙的燈光，已經全部調暗 | All the cabin lights have been dimmed [00:46] 靠著三十二A的舷窗，戴上耳機 | Leaning by window 32A with headphones on [00:57] 穿過厚厚的雲層之後 | Once we climb above the thick cloud layer, [01:01] 所有的風雨，都被留在了腳下 | Every storm and wind is left far beneath our feet [01:34] 窗外是零下五十度的安靜 | Outside the pane lies minus-fifty-degree silence [01:38] 月光鋪在白色的雲海上面，像一片雪原 | Moonlight spreads across white clouds like a snowfield [01:43] 偶爾掠過一團金色的網格 | Now and then a golden grid drifts past below— [01:47] 那是某座正在熟睡的城市 | Some distant city fast asleep [01:51] Floating in the night | Floating in the night [01:55] 在三萬英尺的雲端 | High among the clouds at thirty thousand feet [01:59] 沒有信號，也沒有打擾 | No signal, and no interruption [02:03] 讓身體失重，讓思緒放空 | Letting the body go weightless, letting thoughts clear [02:08] 借著星光，慢慢滑翔 | Gliding unhurriedly by starlight [02:46] 機翼尖上的小紅燈 | The tiny red light at the wingtip [02:50] 一秒一秒，在銀河裡閃爍 | Blinks second by second against the Milky Way [02:55] 不用去管幾點鐘降落 | No need to care what hour we touch down [02:58] 此刻的安靜，剛剛好 | The quiet of this moment is just enough [03:03] Floating in the night | Floating in the night [03:06] 在三萬英尺的雲端 | High among the clouds at thirty thousand feet [03:11] 沒有信號，也沒有打擾 | No signal, and no interruption [03:15] 讓身體失重，讓思緒放空 | Letting the body go weightless, letting thoughts clear [03:20] 借著星光，慢慢滑翔 | Gliding unhurriedly by starlight [03:26] Floating | Floating ## 雨夜便利店 (Rainy Night Convenience Store) — 夜间巡航辑 / 《凌晨两点的巡航》专辑 - URL: https://chorab.art/tracks/rainy-night-convenience-store/ - Cinema Still: https://chorab.art/assets/img/stills/rainy-night-convenience-store.webp - YouTube 4K MV: https://youtu.be/ZYJob_0IB8A - ISRC: QTAF22613227 - Instrumentation: Smoky nocturnal tenor saxophone, laid-back swing brushed drums, warm electric bass, mellow electric piano chords, subtle rain & glass-chime ambience - Summary (EN): Track four of Midnight Cruise by CHÖRAB · SHADOW & SOUND, "Rainy Night Convenience Store" steps off the rain-slicked city street into a warm corner window at 2:15 a.m. Composed and produced by Chörab (Ming Qu), laid-back lo-fi jazz swing drums, mellow electric piano, and a smoky, breathy nocturnal saxophone frame the chime of an automatic door, chilled sparkling water, and neon reflections melting into liquid amber across wet asphalt. An unhurried five-minute urban sanctuary ideal for rainy nights, cool-jazz lounge playlists, and quiet late-night breaks. - Summary (ZH): 《雨夜便利店》將夜行腳步暫停在凌晨兩點十五分的城市街角。慵懶鬆弛的爵士搖擺鼓點配上微啞溫潤的次中音薩克斯，交織冰鎮氣泡水開罐與窗外細雨滑落玻璃的質感。濕透的柏油路將對街霓虹暈染成流動琥珀色，自動門一聲輕響隔開夜雨，在無人催促的落地窗前留出五分鐘自在喘息。 ### Bilingual Lyrics: [00:21] 自動門叮咚一聲，把雨水擋在身後 | The automatic door chimes, shutting the rain behind [00:30] 拿一罐冰鎮氣泡水，站在落地窗前 | Holding a chilled sparkling water by the floor-to-ceiling glass [00:40] 濕透的柏油路，把街對面的霓虹 | Rain-soaked asphalt blurs the neon across the street [00:50] 暈染成一片，流動的琥珀色 | Into a wash of flowing amber light [01:40] 收銀台後的店員，正低頭聽著耳機 | Behind the counter, the clerk listens quietly on earphones [01:49] 窗外的雨滴，順著玻璃慢慢往下滑 | Raindrops outside trace slow paths down the pane [01:55] 兩點十五分的城市，沒有人催你離開 | At 2:15 a.m., no one in the city hurries you out [02:02] Stay for a little while | Stay for a little while [02:07] Let the rain wash out the noise | Let the rain wash out the noise [02:12] No need to hurry home tonight | No need to hurry home tonight [02:17] 氣泡在舌尖散開 | Tiny bubbles dissolve on the tip of the tongue [02:21] 這五分鐘的安靜，比什麼都自在 | These five quiet minutes feel freer than anything else ## 穿過北極圈的列車 (Train Across the Arctic Circle) — 夜间巡航辑 / 《凌晨两点的巡航》专辑 - URL: https://chorab.art/tracks/train-across-the-arctic-circle/ - Cinema Still: https://chorab.art/assets/img/stills/train-across-the-arctic-circle.webp - YouTube 4K MV: https://youtu.be/AZXp76VjyY0 - ISRC: QTAF22613228 - Instrumentation: Glacial felt piano, expressive solo cello, subtle rail-pulse electronic percussion, warm atmospheric sub-pad, understated bilingual vocals - Summary (EN): Track five on Midnight Cruise by CHÖRAB · SHADOW & SOUND, "Train Across the Arctic Circle" bridges Nordic-inspired neoclassical chamber music and nocturnal electronic pulse. Composed and produced by Chörab (Ming Qu), crystalline glacial felt piano notes converse intimately with an expressive solo cello over a steady rail-like rhythmic undercurrent. Its visual scenes contrast a warm train carriage and steaming coffee cup against parallel snowfield tracks and emerald aurora borealis billowing silently above dark polar mountain ridges—crafted for winter nights, deep reading, and contemplative travel. - Summary (ZH): 《穿過北極圈的列車》融合新古典室內樂與環境電子美學，以清冷晶瑩的冰川顆粒毛氈鋼琴（Felt Piano）與深沉獨奏大提琴相互應答。平行鐵軌在蒼茫雪原上延伸，溫暖車廂裡咖啡冒著白氣，窗外黑色山脈上方翻湧著漫天翠綠極光；節奏如夜行列車勻速滑行，在冷冽與暖意對比間滌盪沉重思緒。 ### Bilingual Lyrics: [00:34] 鐵軌在雪原上，畫出兩條平行的線 | Steel rails draw two parallel lines across the snowfield [00:42] 車廂裡很暖，咖啡杯冒著白氣 | Inside the carriage it is warm; white steam curls from a coffee cup [00:50] 窗外沒有路燈，只有漫天綠色的極光 | No streetlights outside—only emerald northern lights across the sky [00:56] 在黑色的山脈上面，安靜地翻湧 | Billowing silently above dark mountain ridges [01:41] Running through the frozen night | Running through the frozen night [01:45] Chasing the northern lights | Chasing the northern lights [01:49] Leave the heavy world behind | Leave the heavy world behind [01:55] 鐵軌向前延伸 | The rails stretch onward into the distance; [01:57] 我們只是夜色裡的過客 | We are only travelers passing through the night ## 加州一號公路的日落 (Highway 1 Sunset) — 夜间巡航辑 / 《凌晨两点的巡航》专辑 - URL: https://chorab.art/tracks/highway-1-sunset/ - Cinema Still: https://chorab.art/assets/img/stills/highway-1-sunset.webp - YouTube 4K MV: https://youtu.be/gKlvwTKNd_E - ISRC: QTAF22613229 - Instrumentation: Bouncy electric funk bass, vintage spring-reverb surf guitar, crisp indie-funk drum groove, warm analog keys, relaxed sunset vocals - Summary (EN): Track six of Midnight Cruise by CHÖRAB · SHADOW & SOUND, "Highway 1 Sunset" brings warm golden-hour groove to the album's coastal arc. Written and produced by Chörab (Ming Qu), a supple, bouncy electric funk bassline locks into vintage spring-reverb surf guitar and crisp drums at an easygoing cruising tempo. Visual imagery follows an open-top convertible along California's Pacific Coast Highway—old jackets tossed on the back seat, white surf breaking below coastal cliffs, and daytime worries dissolving in the rearview mirror as tangerine sunlight meets dusk. - Summary (ZH): 《加州一號公路的日落》為全專注入一抹溫暖金橘色的海岸律動。編曲以富有彈性的放克電貝斯（Funk Bass）緊密咬合復古混響衝浪吉他（Surf Guitar），節拍輕快而不躁進。敞篷車後座扔著舊夾克，右側太平洋懸崖下白浪拍石，夕陽將海面燒成橘紅，把落日入夜前最舒展的一秒無限拉長。 ### Bilingual Lyrics: [00:36] 敞篷車的後座，扔著兩件舊夾克 | Two old jackets tossed onto the convertible's back seat [00:44] 夕陽把太平洋，燒成一整片橘紅色 | The setting sun burns the Pacific into a sheet of tangerine [00:53] 右邊的懸崖下，白色的海浪拍打著礁石 | Below the cliffs on the right, white surf breaks against the rocks [01:02] 風把所有的煩心事，都吹散在後視鏡裡 | The wind scatters every worry into the rearview mirror [01:32] Golden sun is sinking low | Golden sun is sinking low [01:37] Cruising down the coast of gold | Cruising down the coast of gold [01:41] Nowhere else we need to go | Nowhere else we need to go [01:46] 踩著落日的餘暉 | Riding along the afterglow of the setting sun, [01:51] 把這一秒，拉得很長很長 | Stretching this single second out as far as it can go ## 威士忌裡的冰球 (Ice Sphere in Whiskey) — 夜间巡航辑 / 《凌晨两点的巡航》专辑 - URL: https://chorab.art/tracks/ice-sphere-in-whiskey/ - Cinema Still: https://chorab.art/assets/img/stills/ice-sphere-in-whiskey.webp - YouTube 4K MV: https://youtu.be/PU7O6Uw1cBw - ISRC: QTAF22613230 - Instrumentation: Harmon-muted trumpet, plucked upright double bass, jazz brush drums, sparse late-night piano voicings, crystal glass & cracking ice foley - Summary (EN): Track seven on Midnight Cruise by CHÖRAB · SHADOW & SOUND, "Ice Sphere in Whiskey" distills intimate cool-jazz minimalism for the small hours of the night. Composed and produced by Chörab (Ming Qu), a restrained Harmon-muted trumpet converses softly with plucked upright double bass, sparse late-night piano voicings, and feather-light brush drums. Its 4K visuals linger on amber whiskey pouring over a hand-carved round ice sphere with a single crisp crackle beneath a small warm bar lamp—crafted for late-night lounges, dim living rooms, and unhurried reflection. - Summary (ZH): 《威士忌裡的冰球》是專輯中最具酷派爵士（Cool Jazz）私密質感的深夜小品。編曲採用克制的哈蒙弱音小號（Harmon Muted Trumpet）、撥奏立式木貝斯與輕掃鋼刷鼓，搭配琥珀酒液漫過手工圓冰時清脆微裂的真實聲響。吧台暖黃小燈只照亮方寸桌面，將喧囂隔絕於門外，留下微醺而清醒的獨處片刻。 ### Bilingual Lyrics: [00:21] 琥珀色的酒液，漫過圓圓的冰球 | Amber whiskey pours slowly over the round ice sphere, [00:31] 發出清脆的一聲，細微的裂響 | Releasing a single crisp, delicate crackle [00:42] 吧台上的暖黃小燈，只照亮方寸之間 | A warm lamp on the bar lights only these few quiet inches [00:52] 外面的世界再熱鬧，也與今晚無關 | However loud the world outside, it has nothing to do with tonight [01:29] Take a sip and slow it down | Take a sip and slow it down [01:35] In the quiet of the town | In the quiet of the town [01:40] Let the night wrap all around | Let the night wrap all around [01:44] 冰塊慢慢融化 | As the ice melts unhurriedly, [01:46] 夜色剛剛微醺 | The night settles into a gentle glow ## 摩天輪的最高點 (Top of the Ferris Wheel) — 夜间巡航辑 / 《凌晨两点的巡航》专辑 - URL: https://chorab.art/tracks/top-of-the-ferris-wheel/ - Cinema Still: https://chorab.art/assets/img/stills/top-of-the-ferris-wheel.webp - YouTube 4K MV: https://youtu.be/tkrRF3I-DOA - ISRC: QTAF22613231 - Instrumentation: Warm lush French-touch analog polysynths, dreamy chorus guitar, soft electronic groove, velvety sub-bass, airy dream-pop vocals - Summary (EN): Track eight of Midnight Cruise by CHÖRAB · SHADOW & SOUND, "Top of the Ferris Wheel" unfolds lush, warm French-touch synthesizer waves and dream-pop electronic textures. Composed and produced by Chörab (Ming Qu), the arrangement mirrors a glass observation gondola rising steadily above street-level clamor until urban neon stretches below like a quiet galaxy of stars. Weightless chord progressions, velvety sub-bass, and soft vocals capture the suspended moment at the wheel's apex where even time seems to pause and take in the midnight skyline. - Summary (ZH): 《摩天輪的最高點》以迷幻溫暖的法式復古合成器音牆（French Touch / Dream-Synth）與柔和電子脈搏，描摹玻璃轎廂緩緩升離地面喧囂的懸浮時刻。整座城市的霓虹在腳下鋪展成無邊星河，晚風掠過窗面，重力與方向感悄然消融；當轉輪抵達頂端的那一秒，連時間也彷彿停駐俯瞰夜景。 ### Bilingual Lyrics: [00:34] 轎廂慢慢升高，離開地面的喧囂 | The glass cabin rises slowly, leaving the noise on the ground [00:42] 整座城市的霓虹，在腳下鋪成星河 | Neon across the whole city spreads into a galaxy below [00:50] 晚風吹過玻璃窗，沒有重力，也沒有方向 | Night breeze brushes the glass—weightless, bound to no direction [01:41] Up above the city lights | Up above the city lights [01:45] Everything feels light and right | Everything feels light and right [01:48] Spinning through the velvet night | Spinning through the velvet night [01:53] 升到最高點的那一刻 | At the moment it reaches the very top, [01:57] 連時間，都停下來看風景 | Even time pauses to take in the view ## 無人知曉的書店 (The Bookstore Nobody Knows) — 夜间巡航辑 / 《凌晨两点的巡航》专辑 - URL: https://chorab.art/tracks/the-bookstore-nobody-knows/ - Cinema Still: https://chorab.art/assets/img/stills/the-bookstore-nobody-knows.webp - YouTube 4K MV: https://youtu.be/_-CqPz-bARc - ISRC: QTAF22613232 - Instrumentation: Twin nylon-string acoustic guitars in stereo fingerpicking, warm upright acoustic bass accents, soft room ambience, gentle intimate vocals - Summary (EN): Track nine on Midnight Cruise by CHÖRAB · SHADOW & SOUND, "The Bookstore Nobody Knows" strips away electronic synthesis in favor of intimate organic wood resonance. Composed and produced by Chörab (Ming Qu), two nylon-string acoustic guitars panned gently left and right converse in unhurried fingerpicking with warm natural room acoustics. Visual details evoke pushing open a hidden back-alley wooden door into the scent of aged paper and roasted coffee, a sleeping cat on the steps, and a slow wall clock—tailored for reading, journaling, and quiet sanctuary. - Summary (ZH): 《無人知曉的書店》褪去所有電子合成音色，回歸純粹原聲木質共鳴。雙把尼龍弦古典木吉他一左一右安靜指彈對話，指腹擦弦細節清晰溫潤。推開深巷盡頭的木門，舊紙張與烘焙咖啡香氣撲面而來，貓在台階熟睡、掛鐘慢擺，在破曉到來前留存一隅如午後暖窗般安寧的閱讀棲居地。 ### Bilingual Lyrics: [00:35] 拐進巷子盡頭，推開木頭小門 | Turning down the end of the lane, pushing open a small wooden door [00:41] 空氣裡有舊紙張，和烘焙咖啡的香氣 | The air holds the scent of old paper and roasted coffee [00:48] 貓在台階上熟睡，掛鐘走得很慢很慢 | A cat sleeps soundly on the steps as the wall clock ticks unhurriedly [01:40] Turn the page and take your time | Turn the page and take your time [01:48] Leave the busy world outside | Leave the busy world outside [01:56] Peace is not so hard to find | Peace is not so hard to find [02:04] 坐在靠窗的角落 | Sitting quietly in a corner beside the window, [02:08] 一下午，就這樣輕輕過去 | A whole afternoon drifts softly by just like this ## 破曉前的五公里 (Five Kilometers Before Dawn) — 夜间巡航辑 / 《凌晨两点的巡航》专辑 - URL: https://chorab.art/tracks/five-kilometers-before-dawn/ - Cinema Still: https://chorab.art/assets/img/stills/five-kilometers-before-dawn.webp - YouTube 4K MV: https://youtu.be/S9W9QsQelfo - ISRC: QTAF22613233 - Instrumentation: Layered post-rock tremolo & delay electric guitar walls, driving live-feel drum crescendo, warm bass guitar, shimmering dawn synth pad, uplifting vocals - Summary (EN): Closing the album Midnight Cruise by CHÖRAB · SHADOW & SOUND, "Five Kilometers Before Dawn" builds from quiet pre-dawn anticipation into a panoramic post-rock instrumental finale. Composed and produced by Chörab (Ming Qu), layered tremolo and delay electric guitar walls, driving drums, and warm bass surge forward as headlights switch off and first golden sunlight breaks over a coastal bridge horizon. Carrying the scent of morning grass after an all-night drive, the track brings the ten-song nocturnal voyage into clear, waking daylight. - Summary (ZH): 作為《凌晨兩點的巡航》專輯終曲，《破曉前的五公里》以層層推進的後搖滾（Post-Rock）電吉他音牆、開闊鼓組與溫暖低音迎來整夜航程的破曉收束。關掉車頭大燈，跨海大橋盡頭亮起第一抹金黃，風裡浮現清晨草木氣息；器樂在克制蓄勢後豁然綻放，載著一夜澄明駛向清醒人間。 ### Bilingual Lyrics: [00:41] 關掉車頭大燈，天邊亮起第一抹金黃 | Switching off the headlights as first gold touches the horizon [00:47] 儀表盤顯示，距離終點還有最後五公里 | The dashboard shows the final five kilometers to the end [00:55] 一夜的夜路走完，風裡有了清晨草木的味道 | With the night road behind, the breeze carries morning grass and trees [01:15] Five miles to the morning light | Five miles to the morning light [01:19] We made it through the longest night | We made it through the longest night [01:23] Watch the horizon shining bright | Watch the horizon shining bright [01:27] 迎著第一束陽光 | Facing the very first beam of morning sun, [01:31] 踩下油門，向著清醒的人間 | Pressing the pedal onward into the waking world ## 半山聽雨 (Rain Halfway Up the Mountain) — 一曲清净音 / 《曲热》专辑 - URL: https://chorab.art/tracks/rain-halfway-up-the-mountain/ - Cinema Still: https://chorab.art/assets/img/stills/rain-halfway-up-the-mountain.webp - YouTube 4K MV: https://youtu.be/mRnsMguOLpY - Instrumentation: Bridged guzheng harmonics, warm transverse bamboo flute (dizi), distant bronze temple bell, natural pavilion-eaves rain & bamboo-forest wind field recordings - Summary (EN): Opening the Eastern serenity album Chörab by CHÖRAB · SHADOW & SOUND, "Rain Halfway Up the Mountain" pairs crystalline bridged guzheng harmonics, warm dizi bamboo flute, and a distant mountain temple bell with natural eaves rain and bamboo breeze recordings. Composed and produced by Chörab (Ming Qu), its 4K visual language draws upon Southern Song ink scrolls by Xia Gui (Pure and Remote View of Streams and Mountains) and Ma Yuan alongside Northern Song Ru-ware sky-blue celadon—suited for tea contemplation, rainy-day reading, and mindful rest. - Summary (ZH): 《半山聽雨》為《曲熱》東方清淨美學專輯開篇之作。編曲以實錄瓦檐雨聲與竹林山風鋪陳空間，清透古箏泛音、溫潤竹笛與穿雲而來的山寺暮鐘彼此應和。視覺融入南宋夏圭《溪山清遠圖》、馬遠《水圖》《踏歌圖》長卷與北宋汝窯天青釉「雨過天青雲破處」的溫潤肌理，道出半途駐足、檐下一坐心無掛礙的從容。 ### Bilingual Lyrics: [00:32] 石階走了一半，雲霧漫過山腰 | Halfway up the stone steps, mist drifts across the mountainside [00:39] 一場不期而遇的雨，把腳步輕輕攔住 | An unexpected shower gently brings my footsteps to a pause [00:46] 索性收起行囊，坐在古亭的木欄旁 | Setting down my pack, I sit beside the wooden rail of an old pavilion [00:53] 看雨水順著瓦檐，連成透明的珠簾 | Watching rainwater stream down tiled eaves into a clear curtain of beads [01:04] 平時總在趕路，總想快一點到山頂 | Usually always hurrying onward, eager to reach the summit sooner, [01:10] 卻忘了停下來，看一眼石縫裡的青苔 | Forgetting to pause and notice the green moss between the stones [01:18] 山風吹過竹林，送來泥土與松針的清香 | Mountain wind crosses the bamboo grove, carrying earth and pine-needle scent [01:25] 原來走慢一點，天地反而更寬 | Slowing down a little makes heaven and earth feel wider still [01:34] 在半山聽一場雨 | Listening to the rain halfway up the mountain, [01:41] 把趕路的心，輕輕放平 | Letting a hurried heart settle gently into calm [01:49] 聽遠處的鐘聲，穿過層層雲霧 | Hearing a distant bell drift through layers of mist, [01:55] 敲散眉宇間，攢了太久的陰晴 | Dissolving the worries gathered too long upon the brow [02:03] 在半山聽一場雨 | Listening to the rain halfway up the mountain, [02:08] 看草木在雨裡，安安靜靜地呼吸 | Watching grass and trees breathe quietly in the rain [02:17] 有些還沒想通的事，不必急著要答案 | Some unanswered questions need no immediate reply [02:24] 等雨停了，山路自然清晰 | Once the rain clears, the mountain path will show itself [03:02] 掌心握得太緊，連風都穿不過去 | Clench your palms too tightly, and not even the breeze can pass [03:09] 不如攤開雙手，接一滴微涼的雨水 | Better to open both hands and catch a cool drop of rain [03:15] 人這一生，總有走不完的坡 | In a single lifetime, there are always more slopes ahead; [03:24] 能在半路歇一歇，也是一種所得 | Being able to rest halfway is its own quiet reward [03:33] 在半山聽一場雨 | Listening to the rain halfway up the mountain, [03:39] 把趕路的心，輕輕放平 | Letting a hurried heart settle gently into calm [03:47] 聽遠處的鐘聲，穿過層層雲霧 | Hearing a distant bell drift through layers of mist, [03:54] 敲散眉宇間，攢了太久的陰晴 | Dissolving the worries gathered too long upon the brow [04:01] 雨落青山，洗盡塵埃 | Rain falls on green hills, washing away the dust [04:05] 鐘聲渡水，草木自開 | Bell tones cross the water; grass and trees unfold at ease [04:08] 不追過往，不問將來 | Chasing neither the past nor asking of tomorrow [04:12] 檐下一坐，心無掛礙 | Sitting beneath the eaves, the heart is unburdened [04:16] 雨漸停，雲自開 | As the rain softens, the clouds part on their own [04:28] 心無掛礙 | The heart rests unburdened ## 廣陵清風 (Clear Breeze of Guangling) — 一曲清净音 / 《曲热》专辑 - URL: https://chorab.art/tracks/clear-breeze-of-guangling/ - Cinema Still: https://chorab.art/assets/img/stills/clear-breeze-of-guangling.webp - YouTube 4K MV: https://youtu.be/Jv1VvVpOHa0 - Instrumentation: Classical Zhongni-style bridge-less seven-string guqin (open, harmonic & sliding tones), vertical bamboo flute (xiao), subtle bamboo-grove wind ambience - Summary (EN): Track two of the Chörab serenity album by CHÖRAB · SHADOW & SOUND, "Clear Breeze of Guangling" pays tribute to Wei-Jin literatus Ji Kang and the ancient repertoire Guangling San. Composed and produced by Chörab (Ming Qu), it features a classical Zhongni-style seven-string bridge-less guqin—articulating open bass strings, crystalline harmonics, and sliding stopped tones—in dialogue with a vertical bamboo xiao flute. Visual scrolls weave Li Tang's Wind in Pines Among a Myriad Valleys and Wen Tong's Ink Bamboo into scholarly composure for study and contemplation. - Summary (ZH): 《廣陵清風》取魏晉名士嵇康《廣陵散》與「手揮五弦，目送歸鴻」之精神風骨，採用傳世仲尼式七弦無雁柱古琴演繹散音之渾厚、泛音之清冷與按音之吟猱，並與清越洞簫幽谷應答。視覺融匯北宋李唐《萬壑松風圖》、文同《墨竹圖》與南宋夏圭《溪山清遠圖》館藏真跡氣韻，將最錚錚傲骨化作天地間最靜的松。 ### Bilingual Lyrics: [00:32] 竹林深處，石榻微涼 | Deep in the bamboo grove, the stone couch feels cool [00:38] 寬袍大袖，獨坐斜陽 | In wide flowing robes, sitting alone in slanting sunlight [00:46] 風從山谷吹來 | A breeze rises out of the mountain valley, [00:52] 吹落滿肩，翠綠的竹葉 | Brushing emerald bamboo leaves across my shoulders [01:28] 世間的路，窄而且忙 | The roads of the world are narrow and hurried; [01:36] 竹林的風，清而且長 | The wind through bamboo is clear and unhurried [01:43] 手揮五弦 | My hand sweeps gently across the qin strings, [01:47] 抬頭，目送天邊的歸鴻 | Lifting my gaze to follow wild geese returning across the sky [01:59] 一曲廣陵散入風 | The melody of Guangling scatters into the breeze, [02:05] 不唱悲歡，只唱從容 | Singing neither sorrow nor joy, only composure [02:12] 任憑山外風雲變幻 | Though winds and clouds shift endlessly beyond the hills, [02:18] 我自獨坐，萬竹之中 | I sit serene amidst ten thousand bamboo stalks [02:28] 斜陽落盡，星辰升起 | The setting sun fades out and stars ascend; [02:33] 一身清白，來去如風 | Unstained in spirit, coming and going like the wind [02:41] 把最錚錚的傲骨 | Turning the most unyielding integrity [02:45] 化作天地間，最靜的松 | Into the quietest pine between heaven and earth [03:27] 酒已微冷，琴音漸稀 | The wine grows cool, the qin notes grow sparse and faint [03:33] 飛鳥沒入遠山 | Flying birds vanish into distant peaks, [03:36] 衣袂不染塵泥 | Sleeves untouched by worldly dust [03:42] 手揮五弦，目送歸鴻 | Brushing the strings, watching wild geese fade afar [03:48] 竹林清風，來去從容 | Clear breeze in the bamboo, coming and going at ease [03:56] 外忘榮辱，內守清明 | Forgetting honor and disgrace without, keeping clarity within [04:02] 廣陵不絕，天地長青 | Guangling never fades; heaven and earth stay evergreen [04:11] 手揮五弦，目送歸鴻 | Brushing the strings, watching wild geese fade afar ## 留白 (Unpainted Space) — 一曲清净音 / 《曲热》专辑 - URL: https://chorab.art/tracks/unpainted-space/ - Cinema Still: https://chorab.art/assets/img/stills/unpainted-space.webp - YouTube 4K MV: https://youtu.be/zI01TT6jhP8 - Instrumentation: Vertical bamboo flute (xiao), seven-string guqin harmonics, minimalist chamber strings, generous acoustic silence & breath intervals - Summary (EN): Inspired by Southern Song court master Ma Yuan's iconic c. 1195 scroll Angler on a Wintry River (Hanjiang Dudiao Tu), "Unpainted Space" by CHÖRAB · SHADOW & SOUND translates Chinese ink-wash negative space (liubai) into sound. Composed and produced by Chörab (Ming Qu), breathy xiao flute, bridge-less guqin harmonics, and spacious strings leave generous intervals of silence between phrases, paired visually with Ma Yuan's lone skiff and Northern Song Ru-ware celadon. Echoing Wang Wei's verse on watching clouds arise, it suits meditation, gallery aesthetics, and unhurried reflection. - Summary (ZH): 《留白》立意取自南宋院體畫大師馬遠傳世名作《寒江獨釣圖》（約1195年）：全幅素絹僅繪一葉扁舟、垂釣老翁與寥寥數筆水紋，餘下皆為無墨空白，卻令觀者望見浩渺寒江與漫天風雪。編曲以幽微洞簫、七弦古琴泛音與克制弦樂留出充沛呼吸間隙，並融王維「行到水窮處，坐看雲起時」哲思，為太滿的現代日常留一方棲心之白。 ### Bilingual Lyrics: [00:34] 八百年前 | Eight hundred years ago, [00:36] 有個畫畫的人 | There was a painter [00:41] 鋪開一張紙 | Who unrolled a sheet of silk [00:44] 只畫了一條小船 | And painted only a single skiff, [00:49] 船上一個老人 | An old man aboard the boat, [00:52] 一根細細的釣竿 | A slender fishing rod, [00:56] 船邊幾道水紋 | A few faint ripples beside the hull— [00:59] 剩下的 | And all the rest, [01:01] 一片空白 | Unpainted white space [01:35] 後來的人，站在畫前 | Centuries later, viewers stood before the scroll [01:43] 看了很久很久 | And gazed for a long, long time [01:50] 有人說，看見了滿江的水 | Some said they saw a river brimming with water [01:58] 有人說，聽見了一夜的風 | Some said they heard wind blowing through the night [02:05] 有人說，那是冬天 | Some said it was deep winter, [02:09] 江上剛下過雪 | Just after snow had fallen on the river [02:12] 他什麼也沒畫 | He painted nothing there, [02:15] 卻什麼都在 | Yet everything is present [02:21] 我把日子，畫得太滿 | I have painted my own days far too full— [02:28] 滿到沒有一處，能歇一歇肩 | So crowded there is nowhere left to rest my shoulders [02:36] 滿到連月亮，都照不進窗前 | So crowded even moonlight cannot reach the window [02:44] 留一點白吧 | Leave a little unpainted space— [02:46] 給風，給雨 | For the wind, and for the rain, [02:48] 給一句沒說完的話 | For a sentence left gently unfinished [02:51] 留一點白吧 | Leave a little unpainted space— [02:55] 那片空白的地方 | Only within that open, unpainted space [03:02] 才住著我自己 | Does my true self quietly dwell [03:11] 行到水窮處 | Walk to where the water ends; [03:15] 坐看雲起時 | Sit and watch the clouds arise [03:20] 我把日子，畫得太滿 | I have painted my own days far too full— [03:27] 滿到沒有一處，能歇一歇肩 | So crowded there is nowhere left to rest my shoulders [03:35] 滿到連月亮，都照不進窗前 | So crowded even moonlight cannot reach the window [03:43] 留一點白吧 | Leave a little unpainted space— [03:45] 給風，給雨 | For the wind, and for the rain, [03:47] 給一句沒說完的話 | For a sentence left gently unfinished [03:50] 留一點白吧 | Leave a little unpainted space— [03:54] 我不趕路了 | I am no longer rushing down the road; [04:01] 江上的雪，替我落下 | The snow over the river falls softly in my stead [04:11] 八百年了 | Eight hundred years have passed; [04:15] 那條小船 | That solitary little boat [04:18] 還停在那片白裡 | Still rests within the white ## 普陀潮音 (Tidal Sound of Putuo) — 一曲清净音 / 《曲热》专辑 - URL: https://chorab.art/tracks/tidal-sound-of-putuo/ - Cinema Still: https://chorab.art/assets/img/stills/tidal-sound-of-putuo.webp - YouTube 4K MV: https://youtu.be/reHnHSXVd9o - Instrumentation: Crystalline pipa harmonics & gentle plucks, vertical bamboo flute (xiao), East China Sea tidal surf & Purple Bamboo Grove wind field recordings, warm ambient strings - Summary (EN): Track four of the Chörab serenity album by CHÖRAB · SHADOW & SOUND, "Tidal Sound of Putuo" unfolds a tranquil sea-mist journey to Mount Putuo in the East China Sea. Composed and produced by Chörab (Ming Qu), crystalline pipa harmonics and breathy vertical xiao flute interweave with East Sea tidal surf and bamboo breeze recordings. Visual frames incorporate Southern Song master Ma Yuan's Water Album wave studies alongside Xia Gui's misty horizon scrolls, evoking thousand-year camphor shade and calm ocean contemplation. - Summary (ZH): 《普陀潮音》以東海普陀山晨霧渡海、千年古樟、紫竹林海風與潮音洞聽濤為意象軸線。編曲將真實東海潮汐拍岸聲、竹葉沙沙聲與清透琵琶泛音、悠遠洞簫細膩交織；視覺融入南宋馬遠《水圖》十二水波紋理與夏圭《溪山清遠圖》水天浩渺長卷，寫就「來時滿身風雨，歸時一身清涼」的澄明海島心境。 ### Bilingual Lyrics: [00:32] 渡船穿破晨霧 | A ferryboat parts the morning sea mist; [00:37] 孤島浮在東海中央 | A lone island floats in the heart of the East Sea [00:44] 岸邊的老樟樹 | Ancient camphor trees along the shore [00:50] 已經綠了千年時光 | Have stayed green across a thousand years [01:14] 海風吹過紫竹林 | Sea breeze moves through the Purple Bamboo Grove, [01:19] 竹葉輕輕搖晃 | Swaying bamboo leaves with a gentle rustle [01:25] 石頭小路，通往海邊 | A narrow stone path leads down to the water, [01:32] 步履不慌不忙 | Every footstep unhurried and calm [01:40] 潮來，拍打礁石 | The tide comes in, breaking against coastal rocks; [01:46] 潮去，歸於汪洋 | The tide recedes, returning to the open sea [01:53] 孤懸海外的一方青翠 | This solitary patch of green far out at sea [01:59] 從未染過，人間的風霜 | Has never been stained by worldly frost [02:07] 在潮音洞前靜坐 | Sitting quietly before Tidal Sound Cave, [02:13] 聽大海，日夜吟唱 | Listening to the ocean chant day and night [02:20] 萬千波瀾到了岸邊 | Ten thousand surging waves, upon reaching the shore, [02:27] 都化作，一抹微光 | All soften into a shimmer of quiet light [03:05] 海鳥掠過白浪 | Seabirds skim across white-crested waves [03:12] 夕陽鋪滿金沙 | As sunset washes golden sand in warmth [03:18] 來時滿身風雨 | Arriving weathered by wind and rain, [03:26] 歸時一身清涼 | Returning wrapped in clear coolness [03:33] 海天浩渺，孤島常青 | Boundless sea and sky; the lone isle stays evergreen [03:40] 紫竹搖風，樟木成蔭 | Purple bamboo sways in wind; camphor boughs cast shade [03:47] 潮起潮落，皆是清音 | Rising tide and falling tide, every wave a pure sound [03:58] 慈悲渡海，萬浪歸寧 | Kindness crosses the sea, and ten thousand waves find peace [04:07] 慈悲渡海，萬浪歸寧 | Kindness crosses the sea, and ten thousand waves find peace ## 殊勝的法 (The Sublime Way) — 一曲清净音 / 《曲热》专辑 - URL: https://chorab.art/tracks/the-sublime-way/ - Cinema Still: https://chorab.art/assets/img/stills/the-sublime-way.webp - YouTube 4K MV: https://youtu.be/g4QsY5Iv_lc - Instrumentation: Warm fingerpicked acoustic guitar, vertical bamboo flute (xiao), soft ambient strings, alpine morning breeze ambience - Summary (EN): Track five on the Chörab album by CHÖRAB · SHADOW & SOUND, "The Sublime Way" celebrates secular everyday kindness and quiet natural resilience without dogma. Composed and produced by Chörab (Ming Qu), warm fingerpicked acoustic guitar blends with a distant bamboo xiao flute and crisp alpine morning wind. Its 4K visual narrative moves from the steady flame of a clay oil lamp in darkness to golden dawn across snow peaks, honoring small unannounced gestures—stepping aside in a narrow lane, leaving a porch light on, and keeping gentle eyes after winter's chill. - Summary (ZH): 《殊勝的法》褪去宏大概念與說教，將目光落回人間微末處的自然生機與日常善意：凍土下頂開春霜的草籽、古渡口靜泊的木船、窄巷裡側身相讓的體貼與屋檐下留給夜行人的微燈。編曲以溫厚原聲木吉他指彈鋪底，交織悠遠洞簫與高原晨風聲場；畫面由暗夜陶釉油燈一豆暖火漸次迎來雪山破曉，溫潤而平實。 ### Bilingual Lyrics: [00:30] 總以為，最高的道理 | I once thought the highest truth of life [00:37] 寫在雲端之上 | Was written far above the clouds [00:40] 走過半生風雪 | Only after walking through half a lifetime of snow [00:45] 才看見，凍土下的一粒草籽 | Did I notice a single grass seed beneath frozen earth, [00:52] 正頂開春霜 | Quietly pushing open the spring frost [01:30] 古渡口的木船 | At the old ferry crossing, a wooden boat [01:32] 送走一波又一波過客 | Carries wave after wave of travelers across, [01:36] 自己留在岸邊 | Then stays quietly beside the bank [01:40] 聽潮水起落 | Listening to the rise and fall of the tide, [01:43] 從不提，渡過多少風波 | Never speaking of the storms it has crossed [01:51] 原來最殊勝的法 | The most sublime way of living [01:54] 不在遠方，在尋常 | Lies not afar, but in the everyday [01:58] 是春風融化積雪 | It is spring wind melting winter snow [02:02] 卻從不留下一句聲張 | Without ever leaving a boast behind [02:05] 原來最殊勝的法 | The most sublime way of living [02:09] 是夜路相逢時，分出的一寸微光 | Sharing an inch of lantern light on a dark night road; [02:13] 是見過世間的寒涼 | Having known the chill of the world, [02:16] 眉眼依然溫良 | Yet keeping gentleness in your eyes [02:55] 窄巷裡側身，讓行色匆匆的人先過 | Stepping aside in a narrow lane so hurried steps may pass [03:02] 屋檐下留燈，等未歸的旅人落腳 | Leaving a lamp beneath the eaves for travelers not yet home [03:10] 不求迴響 | Asking for no echo in return, [03:14] 自有餘香 | A quiet fragrance lingers on its own [03:17] 原來最殊勝的法 | The most sublime way of living [03:21] 不在遠方，在尋常 | Lies not afar, but in the everyday [03:25] 是春風融化積雪 | It is spring wind melting winter snow [03:29] 卻從不留下一句聲張 | Without ever leaving a boast behind [03:32] 原來最殊勝的法 | The most sublime way of living [03:36] 是夜路相逢時，分出的一寸微光 | Sharing an inch of lantern light on a dark night road; [03:40] 是見過世間的寒涼 | Having known the chill of the world, [03:43] 眉眼依然溫良 | Yet keeping gentleness in your eyes [03:52] 日照萬物，不擇高低 | Sunlight warms all things, choosing neither high nor low [03:59] 水潤枯木，不問歸期 | Water nourishes dry wood, asking nothing of return [04:05] 心存一念，慈悲自生 | Hold one kind thought, and warmth naturally grows; [04:13] 行於微末，即是殊勝 | Quiet kindness in small things is the sublime way [04:22] 行於微末，即是殊勝 | Quiet kindness in small things is the sublime way ## 松風入茶 (Pine Wind in Tea) — 一曲清净音 / 《曲热》专辑 - URL: https://chorab.art/tracks/pine-wind-in-tea/ - Cinema Still: https://chorab.art/assets/img/stills/pine-wind-in-tea.webp - YouTube 4K MV: https://youtu.be/9ZeQWw1WEAY - Instrumentation: Seven-string guqin, warm bamboo flute (dizi), simmering mountain-spring kettle & brazier acoustics, three-second natural string resonance tail - Summary (EN): Track six of the Chörab serenity album by CHÖRAB · SHADOW & SOUND, "Pine Wind in Tea" draws upon classical Song-dynasty tea preparation, where water coming to its first boil murmurs like wind through pines (songfeng). Composed and produced by Chörab (Ming Qu), refined seven-string guqin, warm bamboo dizi flute, and simmering mountain-spring acoustics conclude with a natural three-second string decay into silence. Visual scrolls pair Li Tang's Wind in Pines Among a Myriad Valleys and Liu Songnian's Preparing Tea with Song Jian-ware hare's-fur black-glazed bowls—ideal for tea sessions and unhurried afternoons. - Summary (ZH): 《松風入茶》考據宋代山居煎茶雅事，「水初沸如松風過耳，水再沸如山澗鳴泉」化用蘇軾與陸羽候湯聽松風之典。編曲以清雅七弦古琴、溫潤竹笛與山泉沸水聲相融，尾奏留三秒餘弦自然入靜；視覺匯集北宋李唐《萬壑松風圖》、南宋劉松年《攆茶圖》與宋代建窯黑釉兔毫盞館藏細節，落筆於「心安一寸，便是故鄉」。 ### Bilingual Lyrics: [00:32] 推開竹窗 | Pushing open the bamboo window, [00:36] 晨霧剛漫過山岡 | Morning mist has just drifted over the ridge [00:42] 掃去石桌上的落葉 | Brushing fallen leaves from the stone table, [00:46] 借一掬山泉，生火煮茶 | Scooping mountain spring water to light a fire and brew tea [01:12] 水初沸，如松風過耳 | First boil murmurs like pine wind brushing past the ear [01:18] 水再沸，如山澗鳴泉 | Second boil sings like a clear mountain brook [01:23] 一葉新茶浮沉 | Tender tea leaves rise and settle [01:29] 半碗碧色生煙 | As pale jade steam curls from half a bowl [01:37] 青煙繞梁去 | Blue-grey curl of steam drifts past the rafters, [01:40] 不知往何處 | Asking nothing of where it goes [01:43] 山中無甲子 | In the mountains, no calendar counts the years; [01:47] 茶溫剛剛好 | The warmth of the tea is just right [01:49] 看雲捲雲舒 | Watching clouds gather and unfurl, [01:53] 聽松濤起伏 | Listening to pine waves rise and subside [01:56] 浮生半日閒 | Half a day of unhurried leisure in floating life— [01:59] 一盞敬朝暮 | One quiet cup offered to morning and dusk [02:35] 山鳥停在檐角 | A mountain bird perches on the corner of the eaves, [02:38] 歪頭看人影 | Tilting its head to watch a human shadow [02:42] 茶涼再添水 | When the tea cools, fresh hot water is poured; [02:45] 日影過竹林 | Sunbeams slant slowly through the bamboo grove [02:52] 松風入盞，白水生香 | Pine wind enters the cup; clear water blooms with fragrance [02:58] 雲來山隱，雲去山蒼 | When clouds come, peaks hide; when clouds part, hills shine green [03:04] 不爭朝夕，不問短長 | Unrushed by morning or dusk, unconcerned with gain or loss [03:11] 心安一寸，便是故鄉 | Wherever the heart rests an inch in peace is home [03:21] 心安一寸，便是故鄉 | Wherever the heart rests an inch in peace is home ## 月照寒潭 (Moonlight Over the Cold Pool) — 一曲清净音 / 《曲热》专辑 - URL: https://chorab.art/tracks/moonlight-over-the-cold-pool/ - Cinema Still: https://chorab.art/assets/img/stills/moonlight-over-the-cold-pool.webp - YouTube 4K MV: https://youtu.be/ntvsLCPGyPo - Instrumentation: Crystalline seven-string guqin harmonics, subtle vertical bamboo flute (xiao), quiet night-dew & pine-forest ambience, spacious acoustic resonance - Summary (EN): Track seven of the Chörab serenity album by CHÖRAB · SHADOW & SOUND, "Moonlight Over the Cold Pool" evokes luminous nocturnal stillness in a pine-shaded mountain valley. Composed and produced by Chörab (Ming Qu), crystalline seven-string guqin harmonics and delicate vertical xiao flute float across spacious night-dew ambience where even a falling pine cone resonates. Visuals weave Southern Song master Ma Yuan's Viewing the Moon (Duiyue Tu) and Angler on a Wintry River with Northern Song Ru-ware celadon—ideal for evening meditation, sleep preparation, and quiet contemplation. - Summary (ZH): 《月照寒潭》以山林暮色、松果輕落與寒潭映月構築極致澄澈的夜間聲景。編曲以深沉七弦古琴泛音、幽微洞簫與清冷夜露環境音相合，大面積靜謐留白承托每粒琴音如水滴入潭；視覺交織南宋馬遠《對月圖》《寒江獨釣圖》與北宋汝窯天青釉洗，詮釋「雁過長空，影沉寒水；寒潭澄澈，明月自來」的無滯心境。 ### Bilingual Lyrics: [00:32] 暮色落山門 | Evening twilight settles upon the mountain gate, [00:35] 松影上石階 | Pine shadows climb slowly up the stone steps [00:40] 風停了 | The wind falls still; [00:43] 林間落下一枚松果 | Among the trees, a single pine cone drops [01:28] 獨坐寒潭邊 | Sitting alone beside the cold mountain pool, [01:31] 看一輪明月，沉入水底 | Watching a full bright moon sink to the water's floor [01:40] 夜鳥掠過水面 | A night bird skims across the surface— [01:44] 翅尖未留痕 | Its wingtips leave no mark, [01:47] 潭水亦無聲 | And the pool makes not a sound [01:55] 月在青天 | The moon hangs in the clear night sky; [02:00] 影在清泉 | Its reflection rests in the pure spring [02:02] 風來波微起 | When a breeze comes, faint ripples stir; [02:06] 風去水如眠 | When the breeze departs, the water sleeps again [02:11] 不問夜深淺 | Asking nothing of how deep the night has grown, [02:14] 不數舊流年 | Counting none of the years already gone [02:18] 一呼一吸間 | Between one quiet breath and the next, [02:21] 山月照無眠 | The mountain moon shines peacefully on the wakeful [03:02] 露水沾衣袖 | Night dew moistens my sleeve [03:05] 星河轉西樓 | As the river of stars wheels past the western eaves [03:09] 萬籟俱寂時 | When all ten thousand sounds fall hushed, [03:12] 天地一扁舟 | Heaven and earth become a single drifting skiff [03:19] 月在青天 | The moon hangs in the clear night sky; [03:23] 影在清泉 | Its reflection rests in the pure spring [03:25] 風來波微起 | When a breeze comes, faint ripples stir; [03:30] 風去水如眠 | When the breeze departs, the water sleeps again [03:36] 雁過長空，影沉寒水 | Wild geese cross the vast sky, their shadows sinking in cold water [03:43] 雁無留跡，水無留心 | The geese leave no trace behind; the water holds no clinging mind [03:50] 寒潭澄澈，明月自來 | When the cold pool is clear, the bright moon appears of itself [03:58] 萬象歸靜，一念如初 | All things return to stillness, one thought clear as at first [04:11] 寒潭澄澈，明月自來 | When the cold pool is clear, the bright moon appears of itself [04:20] 明月自來 | The bright moon appears of itself ## 雲水無心 (Unburdened Clouds and Water) — 一曲清净音 / 《曲热》专辑 - URL: https://chorab.art/tracks/unburdened-clouds-and-water/ - Cinema Still: https://chorab.art/assets/img/stills/unburdened-clouds-and-water.webp - YouTube 4K MV: https://youtu.be/pZtV3-RC2vg - Instrumentation: Warm seven-string guqin, clear transverse bamboo flute (dizi), live-recorded mountain stream & water-ripple acoustics, gentle ambient strings - Summary (EN): Closing the Chörab serenity album by CHÖRAB · SHADOW & SOUND, "Unburdened Clouds and Water" draws on Tao Yuanming's classic line of clouds drifting effortlessly from mountain peaks and the proverb of water flowing unhindered through dense bamboo. Composed and produced by Chörab (Ming Qu), warm seven-string guqin, clear dizi bamboo flute, and live-recorded mountain stream water accompany museum-grade Song-dynasty scrolls—Fan Kuan's Travelers Among Mountains and Streams, Mi Youren's Cloudy Mountains, and Xia Gui's misty riverscapes—for unhurried peace and emotional ease. - Summary (ZH): 作為《曲熱》專輯收官之曲，《雲水無心》化用陶淵明「雲無心以出岫」與古典禪詩「竹密不妨流水過，山高豈礙白雲飛」之哲思。編曲以溫潤七弦古琴、清風竹笛與潺潺山澗實錄流水聲自然交融；視覺匯集北宋范寬《溪山行旅圖》、米友仁《瀟湘奇觀圖》米氏雲山段及南宋夏圭《溪山清遠圖》館藏長卷，寫盡柔順如水、天地皆寧的豁達。 ### Bilingual Lyrics: [00:30] 山間裡的溪水，一路向東流去 | A mountain stream winds its way steadily eastward [00:36] 遇到橫在路中的青石，從不撞得頭破血流 | Meeting a blue boulder in its path, it never batters itself in vain [00:44] 它只是輕輕分作兩股，順著石頭的紋理繞彎 | It simply parts into two gentle threads, curving along the grain of stone [00:51] 轉過那道山口，依然是一眼清泉 | Beyond the mountain pass, it remains the same clear spring [00:59] 年輕時總以為，凡事都要爭個高低 | In youth, it felt as though everything had to be won or lost; [01:05] 後來站在山前，看天邊的浮雲，聚了又散 | Later, standing before the hills, I watched clouds gather and dissolve [01:13] 雲從不問風往哪裡吹 | Clouds never ask which way the wind is blowing, [01:19] 水也從不計較，路有多曲折 | And water never minds how winding the valley road may be [01:28] 雲無心，所以自在出岫 | Unburdened by intent, clouds drift freely from mountain peaks [01:34] 水無心，所以穿石向東流 | Unburdened by contention, water threads past stone toward the sea [01:41] 那些曾讓你徹夜難眠的得與失 | Those gains and losses that once kept you awake all night, [01:48] 放在山水之間，不過是一粒微塵 | Set amidst mountains and rivers, are no more than a speck of dust [01:57] 雲無心，來去皆是從容 | Clouds hold no clinging mind—coming and going in calm ease [02:03] 水無心，映照萬里晴空 | Water holds no clinging mind—mirroring ten thousand miles of clear sky [02:10] 不再和過往較勁，也不與歲月相爭 | No longer wrestling with the past, nor striving against passing years [02:17] 心若像水一樣軟，路就比天還要寬 | When the heart is supple as water, the road opens wider than the sky [02:58] 松針落進水裡，跟著波紋慢慢漂遠 | A pine needle falls onto the stream, drifting slowly away on ripples [03:05] 密密的竹林，攔不住潺潺的流水 | Dense bamboo groves never block the murmuring stream [03:11] 高高的山峰，也擋不住自在的白雲 | And towering peaks never hold back the unhurried white clouds [03:18] 萬事順著它的本意，便是最好的安排 | Letting all things follow their nature is the finest arrangement [03:27] 雲無心，來去皆是從容 | Clouds hold no clinging mind—coming and going in calm ease [03:33] 水無心，映照萬里晴空 | Water holds no clinging mind—mirroring ten thousand miles of clear sky [03:40] 不再和過往較勁，也不與歲月相爭 | No longer wrestling with the past, nor striving against passing years [03:48] 心若像水一樣軟，路就比天還要寬 | When the heart is supple as water, the road opens wider than the sky [03:57] 水流遇石，繞彎而行 | Meeting a stone, flowing water curves gently around; [04:05] 雲聚雲散，來去無形 | Clouds gather and part, coming and going without form [04:12] 竹密水過，山高雲平 | Water flows through dense bamboo; clouds drift past high peaks [04:19] 順其自然，天地皆寧 | Following nature's own course, heaven and earth are at peace [04:27] 竹密水過，山高雲平 | Water flows through dense bamboo; clouds drift past high peaks [04:36] 天地皆寧 | Heaven and earth rest in peace ## 凌晨兩點的巡航 · 42分鐘無間斷夜駕電台長片 (Midnight Cruise Full Album) — 夜间巡航辑 / 《凌晨两点的巡航》专辑 - URL: https://chorab.art/tracks/midnight-cruise-full-album/ - Cinema Still: https://chorab.art/assets/img/stills/midnight-cruise-full-album.webp - YouTube 4K MV: https://youtu.be/uc3oFTXYdxw - Instrumentation: Reverberant & post-rock electric guitars, deep sub-bass, Fender Rhodes, analog synth arpeggios, tenor saxophone, glacial felt piano, solo cello, funk bass, muted trumpet, upright bass, twin nylon-string guitars - Summary (EN): Spanning 41 minutes and 42 seconds without interruption, the Midnight Cruise Full Album film by CHÖRAB · SHADOW & SOUND links ten original nocturnal compositions by Chörab (Ming Qu) into a continuous 4K visual radio journey. Flowing from reverberant highway post-rock and vintage Fender Rhodes coastal chillout through stratospheric synths, rainy-street saxophone, Arctic felt piano and solo cello, Pacific funk-surf guitar, muted-trumpet cool jazz, French dream-pop synths, and twin nylon guitars, the seamless ten-chapter suite culminates in a sweeping sunrise post-rock crescendo for night driving and deep focus. - Summary (ZH): 《凌晨兩點的巡航》四十二分鐘全專輯無間斷影畫長片，將十首原創夜間作品首尾相連：從凌晨兩點高架隧道的混響電吉他與深潛低音啟程，途經海岸電鋼琴、三萬英尺合成器雲海、雨夜薩克斯、北極圈大提琴列車、一號公路衝浪吉他、威士忌弱音小號、摩天輪音牆與深巷雙木吉他，終場於破曉後搖音牆中迎來日出。 ### Bilingual Lyrics: [00:00] Chapter 01 · 凌晨兩點的巡航 | Chapter 01 · 2 AM Midnight Cruise [05:26] Chapter 02 · 藍色海岸線 | Chapter 02 · Blue Coastline [10:26] Chapter 03 · 三萬英尺的舷窗 | Chapter 03 · Window at 30,000 Feet [14:58] Chapter 04 · 雨夜便利店 | Chapter 04 · Rainy Night Convenience Store [19:15] Chapter 05 · 穿過北極圈的列車 | Chapter 05 · Train Across the Arctic Circle [23:24] Chapter 06 · 加州一號公路的日落 | Chapter 06 · Highway 1 Sunset [26:57] Chapter 07 · 威士忌裡的冰球 | Chapter 07 · Ice Sphere in Whiskey [30:30] Chapter 08 · 摩天輪的最高點 | Chapter 08 · Top of the Ferris Wheel [34:30] Chapter 09 · 無人知曉的書店 | Chapter 09 · The Bookstore Nobody Knows [37:59] Chapter 10 · 破曉前的五公里 | Chapter 10 · Five Kilometers Before Dawn ## 傾國傾城的媽媽 (My Radiant Mother) — 挑灯放映室 / 独立单曲 - URL: https://chorab.art/tracks/my-radiant-mother/ - Cinema Still: https://chorab.art/assets/img/stills/my-radiant-mother.webp - Instrumentation: Acoustic grand piano, sweeping cinematic string orchestra, solo violin, warm upright bass, gentle brushed percussion - Summary (EN): Featured in the Lantern Screening Room series by CHÖRAB · SHADOW & SOUND, My Radiant Mother departs from conventional East Asian tropes of maternal self-sacrifice to portray three luminous decades of a woman's identity. Moving from twenty-year-old crimson velvet beneath neon shopfronts to thirty-year-old tailored corporate poise and forty-year-old cashmere elegance, the song traces how everyday labels on parcel slips and at school gates—'someone's wife' and 'someone's mother'—gradually overshadow a woman's poetic given name. Scored for acoustic grand piano and sweeping strings, it celebrates female selfhood aged like fine agarwood. - Summary (ZH): 《傾國傾城的媽媽》收錄於「挑燈放映室」欄目，以溫暖的三十五毫米膠片光影，串聯一位女性二十歲紅絲絨長街的明媚張揚、三十歲職場鎧甲與走入屋簷後的內斂溫柔，以及四十歲羊絨長裙與珍珠胸針的沉澱風華。作品跳出傳統苦情母愛敘事，在三角鋼琴與舒展弦樂中，重新呼喚被「誰的太太、誰的媽媽」遮蔽的女性本名與獨立自我。 ### Bilingual Lyrics: [00:21] 二十歲那年的長街 | Down the long boulevard of her twentieth year, [00:24] 風都圍著她的裙擺打轉 | even the breeze lingered around the hem of her skirt. [00:29] 她敢穿最張揚的紅絲絨 | She dared to wear the boldest crimson velvet, [00:32] 敢戴最耀眼的耳環 | and the most dazzling earrings in the room. [00:36] 烏黑的長髮 | Jet-black hair [00:38] 垂過纖細的肩頭 | spilled past her slender shoulders, [00:40] 皮膚白得像月光下的瓷盞 | her skin as luminous as porcelain beneath the moon. [00:44] 她走過櫥窗的時候 | Whenever she walked past the shopfront glass, [00:46] 連整條街的霓虹 | even the neon lights along the avenue [00:48] 都會暗下一半 | seemed to dim by half beside her. [00:52] 那時候她有一個 | Back then she went solely [00:55] 如詩般的名字 | by a name that sounded like a poem, [00:58] 眼神裡住著整片星海 | and an entire sea of stars lived in her eyes. [01:07] 三十歲她踩著高跟鞋 | At thirty she stepped out in high heels, [01:10] 把精緻的套裝穿成鎧甲 | wearing a tailored suit like quiet armor, [01:15] 在談判桌上從容微笑 | smiling with poised calm across negotiation tables, [01:18] 在深夜的車窗裡看遍晚霞 | watching twilight fade from late-night taxi windows. [01:23] 後來她走進了溫暖的屋簷 | Later she stepped beneath the warmth of a family roof, [01:26] 把鋒芒悄悄收進溫柔的眼眸 | folding her sharp brilliance into gentle eyes. [01:30] 快遞單上寫著誰的太太 | Parcel slips began to read someone's wife; [01:34] 校門口有人喊她誰的媽媽 | at the school gate, voices called her someone's mother. [01:38] 她把真絲長裙掛進衣櫃深處 | She hung her silk dresses deep inside the wardrobe, [01:42] 卻把歲月活成了另一種優雅 | yet lived the passing years into another kind of grace. [01:47] 四十歲的她挽起長髮 | At forty she swept up her long hair, [01:50] 一身剪裁得體的羊絨長裙 | dressed in a finely cut cashmere gown. [01:55] 不用半句喧嘩 | Without a single loud word, [01:58] 舉手投足皆是歲月沉澱的風華 | every gesture carried the poise distilled by time. [02:07] 可她從來不只是誰的妻子 | Yet she has never been merely someone's wife, [02:12] 也不只是誰的媽媽 | nor merely someone's mother. [02:15] 在成為這一家人的港灣之前 | Long before she became the harbor of this home, [02:19] 她首先是那朵驚豔時光的花 | she was first a blossom that astonished time itself. [02:25] 你看她眼角微揚的弧度 | Look at the subtle lift at the corner of her eyes— [02:28] 藏著當年不肯妥協的驕傲 | it still holds the unyielding pride of her youth. [02:32] 時光沒有帶走她的美麗 | Time never took her beauty away; [02:35] 只是把青春的張揚釀成了沉香 | it only aged her youthful fire into deep agarwood. [02:42] 請喊出她自己的名字吧 | Call her by her own true name— [02:45] 敬她半生歸來 | here is to her, returning through half a lifetime, [02:49] 依然光芒萬丈 | still radiant in her own light. [03:05] 那天女兒翻開舊相冊 | That afternoon her daughter opened an old photo album, [03:08] 指著照片裡明媚的少女驚嘆 | marveling at the bright-eyed girl inside the frame. [03:14] 她對著鏡子塗上久違的紅唇 | Before the mirror she traced on long-unworn red lipstick, [03:17] 戴上那枚溫潤的珍珠胸針 | and pinned on a softly lustrous pearl brooch. [03:23] 推開門走入陽光裡的那一刻 | The moment she pushed open the door into the sunlight, [03:30] 她依然是自己世界裡的女王 | she remained the queen of her own world. [03:36] 她從來不只是誰的妻子 | She has never been merely someone's wife, [03:40] 也不只是誰的媽媽 | nor merely someone's mother. [03:44] 在成為這一家人的港灣之前 | Long before she became the harbor of this home, [03:47] 她首先是那朵驚豔時光的花 | she was first a blossom that astonished time itself. [03:53] 無論二十歲的滾燙 | Whether blazing at twenty, [03:57] 三十歲的精緻 | poised and polished at thirty, [03:59] 還是四十歲的典雅大方 | or serene and luminous at forty— [04:09] 願你愛這人間的煙火 | love the warm hearth of this everyday world, [04:14] 更愛鏡子裡 | and love even more, inside the mirror, [04:17] 那個傾國傾城的自己 | the breathtaking woman who is you. [04:24] 親愛的 別忘了 | My dear, never forget: [04:28] 你首先是你自己 | before anything else, you belong to yourself. ## 錫林郭勒的最後一班車 (The Last Bus of Xilingol) — 山河留声机 / 《东北往事》专辑 - URL: https://chorab.art/tracks/the-last-bus-of-xilingol/ - Cinema Still: https://chorab.art/assets/img/stills/the-last-bus-of-xilingol.webp - Instrumentation: Morin khuur (horsehead fiddle), melancholic harmonica, fingerpicked acoustic guitar, accordion, cello, northern blizzard ambience - Summary (EN): Part of the Gramophone of Mountains & Rivers series and the Once Upon a Time in the Northeast album cycle by CHÖRAB · SHADOW & SOUND, The Last Bus of Xilingol captures a winter dawn departure across China's Inner Mongolian borderlands. Concrete sensory details—a breath-fogged ticket window at six a.m., a heavy old sheepskin coat, frost flowers rubbed clear on bus glass, and tangy Mongolian dried milk curd (huruud / nai doufu) tucked into a pocket by a mother—anchor a meditation on irreversible youth and migration, scored with morin khuur, harmonica, acoustic guitar, and blizzard wind. - Summary (ZH): 《錫林郭勒的最後一班車》收錄於「山河留聲機」欄目及《東北往事》企劃，描寫初冬清晨六點北方小站的離鄉記憶：哈滿白氣的售票窗、沉重的舊羊皮大衣、母親塞進兜裡的微酸奶豆腐，以及擦開冰花後在後視鏡裡搖晃的木牌。馬頭琴、口琴與民謠吉他在風雪環境聲中交織，道出「以為遠行只是一張車票，卻走成半生漂泊」的北方鄉愁。 ### Bilingual Lyrics: [00:31] 清晨六點的車站 飄著初冬的薄霧 | At six in the morning, early-winter mist drifts across the station. [00:38] 售票窗口的玻璃 哈滿了白色的水汽 | The glass of the ticket window is fogged white with warm breath. [00:45] 我穿著那件沉重的 舊羊皮大衣 | I wear that heavy old sheepskin coat, [00:52] 兜裡揣著母親 昨晚塞進來的奶豆腐 | pockets holding the dried milk curd my mother tucked in last night. [00:59] 車窗上結著冰花 我用手掌慢慢擦亮 | Frost flowers bloom on the bus window; I rub a clear patch with my palm, [01:06] 看見站臺上的木牌 在後視鏡裡搖晃 | and watch the wooden platform sign sway inside the rearview mirror. [01:13] 那年以為遠行 只是一張車票的距離 | Back then I thought leaving home was only the distance of a single ticket, [01:20] 沒想過這一走 就是半生的漂泊 | never imagining that one departure would become half a lifetime adrift. [01:27] 錫林郭勒的最後一班車 開進了風雪裡 | The last bus of Xilingol drove straight into the wind and snow, [01:34] 車燈刺破了北方 漫長的晨曦 | its headlights piercing the long northern dawn. [01:41] 那些沒來得及 好好告別的人啊 | All those people I never had time to bid a proper farewell [01:49] 都留在了那座 斑駁的舊站臺裡 | were left behind on that weathered old platform. [01:55] 錫林郭勒的最後一班車 帶走了少年意氣 | The last bus of Xilingol carried away my youthful spirit, [02:03] 把故鄉的草場 留在了舊相冊裡 | leaving the pastures of home pressed inside an old album. [02:09] 每當異鄉的冬夜 下起第一場雪 | Whenever the first snow falls on a winter night far from home, [02:16] 我總會聽見那聲 遠去的汽笛 | I still hear that distant horn fading down the road. [02:52] 後來車站翻修了 換上了明亮的玻璃 | Years later the station was rebuilt with panes of bright new glass, [02:59] 老式的長途班車 早已停在了廢鐵場裡 | and the old long-distance coach has long rusted in a scrapyard. [03:06] 只有兜裡那塊奶豆腐 微酸的滋味 | Only the faint tangy taste of that milk curd in my pocket [03:13] 還在某個醒來的凌晨 提醒我來自哪裡 | still wakes me before dawn to remind me where I came from. [03:20] 錫林郭勒的最後一班車 開進了風雪裡 | The last bus of Xilingol drove straight into the wind and snow, [03:27] 車燈刺破了北方 漫長的晨曦 | its headlights piercing the long northern dawn. [03:34] 那些沒來得及 好好告別的人啊 | All those people I never had time to bid a proper farewell [03:41] 都留在了那座 斑駁的舊站臺裡 | were left behind on that weathered old platform. [03:47] 開進了風雪裡 | It drove straight into the wind and snow, [03:54] 再也沒回去 | and never returned.