Hailing from Taipei City, Taiwan, Moon Void is the lo-fi Bedroom Dream Pop solo project of musician and composer Mu Fan Chen who drops a DIY video for “A Long Goodbye”, the second song from her recent 4-track EP “All Is Not Lost.”
Blending ambient, tape manipulations, entrancing electro-acoustic guitar tones and smooth percussive patterns, the Taiwanese artist has crafted a heartfelt and intimate EP of precious grace, inhabited by soft contemplative surroundings of effusive glistening guitar melodies that fade and shine amid rarefied layers of saturated electronic textures tinted by dreamy sad vocalizations.
“A Long Goodbye” begins with the rumble of a distant storm, setting the mood for drowsy emotional female vocals to float inside a oneiric bed of subtly twinkling thoughtful guitar melodies, soft clapping beats, and muted droning misty glows, shifting near the end into a bright clarity where whimsical chiming reverberations reflect prismatic rays of hope.
To sync with the transformational aspect of the soundtrack, Mu Fan Chen herself blends sections from five vintage films: Phil Solomon-The Secret Garden (1988), James Whitney-Lapis (1966); Joseph Cornell-Angel (1957), Ian Hugo-Bells of Atlantis (1952), and Bert Van Bork-Heartbeat of A Volcano (1970), into a beautiful and inspiring aesthetic catharsis. The vision is like waking up from a deep sleep, when your eyes slowly adjust to light, shadows change form, and figures remain blurry. A reel of geometric patterns, a childhood memory, maybe a mysterious abstract texture plays in your mind. Then a fiery volcano erupts, a blinding white light appears and the silhouette of an angel, head bowed in prayer, comes into focus.
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