'Mood Mad' is the debut album from Faded Ghost, an alias of Guizhou born, Shanghai
based independent artist ChaCha. Using her voice as an instrument and layering field
recordings with a combination of hardware and software, she creates collages
soundtracking her memories, experiences and dreams.
Following her well received debut EP release 'Ghost Ark', SVBKVLT's first release in
2012, 'Moon Mad' expands on Faded Ghost's sound and space. Through her travels
since the first EP, the album explores feelings and experiences of the sun and moon at
different latitudes around the globe and the collisions of sound, culture and technology
in these regions. Using and reshaping sound samples collected over 5 years, and
observing the connection that language, culture and religion plays on the sounds of a
location, 'Moon Mad' looks at the power of tidal fluctuations caused by the position of
the moon, and the effect this has on language, the calendar, art and mythology, as well
as the weather and seasons, and the effect this has on the mood and intrinsic energy of
an individual as well as a group.
'Moon Mad' will be released on Shanghai's SVBKVLT label in June 2017, with Faded
Ghost premiering her new live set at Douban's Wetware Festival in Beijing on Sunday
21st May. Each of the 11 tracks on the album feature its own artwork from IdleBeats'
Nini Sum, and the images will be collected and indie-published as a limited edition riso
zine to coincide with the albums release.
