Guitar Solos and Duo

After playing an acoustic guitar duo with MAI mai earlier this year, and also improvising with MAI mai for a while before a show in Suzhou, I realized that it's been almost five years since I stopped playing guitar improvisation. The five songs on side A of the tape were recorded in Chongqing in 2020, I used a broken children's guitar, nail clippers, water bottles and water, no technique, no structure, they sound as if nothing ever happened, moving, stagnant, uninteresting, awkward, but they are especially precious to me. Side B of the tape is a duet between MAI mai and I. I play nylon string guitar and MAI mai plays steel string guitar, recorded on January 11, 2025 at the Gebi Bar in Yiwu. When I played with MAI mai, it was as if some memories from the past and this moment were overlapping. I remember MAI mai said before the show: Let's get closer. The painting on the album cover is an attempt to recreate the outline of an old photo in my fuzzy memory, but it's so blurry that I can only make a few scribbles. -- Ziyang