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Classical Chinese-style Ballad

White Feathers of the Yan Mountains

Ku Wuji · AI Music

Inspired by Li Bai's Song of the North Wind. In the twelfth lunar month, when the Torch Dragon does not reach the northern lands, the north wind roars and snowflakes over the Yan Mountains are as large as mats. A wife in Youzhou, longing for her husband, stops singing and laughing, leans at the door and searches every retreating figure again and again. What finally arrives is news of his death on the frontier. Unable to bear looking again at his white-feathered arrows, covered in cobwebs and dust, she burns them to ashes. Even the Yellow River could be stopped with handfuls of earth, but the anguish of the north wind, rain and snow cannot be cut away. Male and female voices sing the same lyrics.

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Classical Chinese-style Ballad

Horses Neigh, the Wind Sighs

Ku Wuji · AI Music

Inspired by Du Fu's “Five Later Poems on Going Beyond the Frontier.” A young man dreams of winning a noble title, buys a saddle, straps on a sword, and joins the army, experiencing the grandeur of military life firsthand: great banners against the setting sun, horses neighing, and winds sighing. Over twenty years, his commander rises in rank and arrogance, while those who speak out die in the streets. At last he sees Youzhou's armored cavalry drive deep into the lands of the Yellow and Luo Rivers. In the middle of the night, he escapes home along back paths, only to find his native place an empty village overgrown with weeds. One song recounts the rise and collapse of a dream of military glory in a flourishing age. Male and female vocal versions use the same lyrics.

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Classical Chinese-style Ballad

Moonlight's Plain White Platter

Ku Wuji · AI Music

Inspired by Li Bai's 《宿五松山下荀媪家》 (Staying at Mother Xun's Home Beneath Wusong Mountain). Spending the night at a farmhouse beneath Wusong Mountain, the traveler hears a neighbor's daughter pounding rice in the cold night. An elderly woman kneels to offer wild-rice grain, and moonlight brightens the plain plate. The allusion to the washerwoman who fed Han Xin conveys shame at being unable to repay such kindness: after thanking her three times, he still cannot bring himself to eat. Every bite eaten while warm carries the deepest human affection. Male and female vocals sing the same lyrics.

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Classical Chinese-style Ballad

A Humble Offering of Delicate Fragrance

Ku Wuji · AI Music

Drawn from Wu Wenying's “Waves Washing the Sand · Seeking Wine from Wu Jianshan on the Double Ninth.” On the Double Ninth Festival, carrying an empty flask, one climbs the heights in search of wine. Distant mountains resemble eyebrows, the heights feel desolate, and chrysanthemums look slender as a lovely woman. A green cup is washed clean, water drawn from an open well, and the ninth month gently offered up; a black cap bears the frost, the wind blows wildly, and the sorrow in autumn colors and the cries of geese finally sinks into the setting sunlight. Male and female voices sing the same lyrics.

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Classical Chinese-style Ballad

Once I Followed the East Wind

Ku Wuji · AI Music

Drawing on Li Shangyin's “Willow,” the willow tells its own story: first its glorious prime, chasing the east wind, brushing dance banquets, and falling drunkenly in Leyou's spring gardens; then a sudden turn to the clear autumn of west winds and old robes, cicada cries like pipes and strings, and branches filled with the setting sun. It gives voice to the sorrow of a vanished prime and the grief of growing old, with male and female voices singing the same lyrics.

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Classical Chinese-style Ballad

One Pedantic Scholar Between Heaven and Earth

Ku Wuji · AI Music

Inspired by Du Fu's “The Jiang and Han Rivers.” Beginning with a wanderer along the Jiang and Han longing for home, it depicts the loneliness of drifting far with a lone cloud and sharing the solitude of an endless night. It then turns through the setting sun's undiminished ambition and ailing bones in the autumn wind, ending with an old horse that knows the way and need not travel far. It sings of the openhearted spirit of someone still useful in old age, both self-mocking and proud. Male and female vocal versions use the same lyrics.

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Classical Chinese Narrative

A Long Song by the Yi River

Ku Wuji · AI Music

An expanded retelling of Tao Yuanming’s “In Praise of Jing Ke,” tracing a promise to a kindred spirit, the farewell at the Yi River, the failed mission into Qin, and feelings that linger a thousand years later, to portray a brave man’s impassioned devotion to a righteous cause and later generations’ remembrance. Separate male and female vocal versions are available.

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Classical Chinese-style Ballad

A Long-Delayed Move

Ku Wuji · AI Music

Expanded from “Ruan Lang Gui: Spring Wind Blows Rain Around the Last Branches,” this song uses spring rain, lingering branches, returning swallows, and a game piece yet to be placed to portray the restless sorrow that brows cannot hide and feelings hovering on the verge of speech. Separate male and female vocal versions are available.

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Classical Chinese-style Ballad

A Homeward Light Across Ten Thousand Miles

Ku Wuji · AI Music

Expanded from Li Bai's “After War and Separation, Exiled by Imperial Grace to Yelang: Recalling Old Travels and Expressing My Feelings to Wei Liangzai, Prefect of Jiangxia,” this song explores youthful ambition, wartime upheaval and exile, the bonds of old friendship, and the wish to care for the people even after receiving a pardon. Separate male and female vocal versions are provided.

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Classical Chinese-style Ballad

Singing of the Luo River Again

Ku Wuji · AI Music

An ancient-style song expanded from Cao Zhi's “Rhapsody on the Goddess of the Luo River,” depicting an encounter by the Luo River, an exchange of love tokens, the separate paths of mortal and goddess, and backward glances after parting. The new lyrics carry the original's feelings through clear, short lines, with separate male and female vocal versions.

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Classical Chinese-style Ballad

One Vast Expanse of Water

Ku Wuji · AI Music

A preview song in a classical Chinese style, expanded from Cao Zhi's “Rhapsody on the Goddess of the Luo River,” depicting an encounter by the Luo River, an exchange of love tokens, the separate paths of mortal and deity, and looking back after parting. Separate male and female vocal versions are available. This is currently a preview version; the articulation of some words still needs refinement.

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Chinese-Style Folk

Relentless Rain, a Lonely Heart

Ku Wuji · AI Music

Inspired by Li Bai’s “Two Poems Presented to Minister Zhang of the Court of Imperial Regalia While Suffering Through Rain at Princess Yuzhen’s Villa,” these new lyrics portray autumn rain trapping houses and roads in a strange land. Even amid hunger and cold, a person refuses to let cold eyes judge their ambitions; they remember the help they received, hope for a day to put their abilities to use, and hope to leave freely once their work is done.

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