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“Humanity’s mother tongue is song and poetry, as gardens become sports fields, paintings become alphabets, expression becomes debate, fables become dissertations, barter becomes commerce…”
—J.G Hamann

panai is an aboriginal folksinger from the relatively undeveloped Southeast coast of Taiwan. After some years of urban nomadicism in the North, panai moved back to Taitung, the countryside of her origin. Seperated from Taiwan’s industrial cities by two mountain ranges, Taitung sits at the edge of the Phillipine tectonic plate, and still exists within the rhythms of tides, breath, and dance. The coastal mountains extend North from Taitung like a melody, reclining like the profile of a woman gazing at the Pacific—valleys scroll down from the mountains to the sea, where people still hold hands to sing and dance together. Here, panai’s musical life has absorbed more organic, open forms of expression—collecting local folksongs, singing in music festivals, organizing local songwriting workshops. panai has cultivated the rich musical soil of Taitung and broadcast seeds over it, incorporating the emotion and experience of local friends who are also breathing in this piece of blue. Unlike panai’s first album of her own songs, these songs were written by friends who’ve also made the choice to live in Taitung. They were written during panai’s songwriting workshop, a creative exploration of each individual’s response to this remote stretch of coast. Lined up together, the songs on “A Piece of Blue” are a tableau of life in a quiet village on the Pacific Ocean, within a blue sea- and skyscape, where there is time for solitude and leisure, where life moves within the hush and sway of the ocean, the obbligado of ancient island rhythms. Through these songs, each of these friends contributed an image to this tapestry that captures and evokes life by the sea, with moonlight, the milky way, bottles of beer, and the evening breeze across Dulan Bay…

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