# 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.