Chinese-Style Folk
Evening Light over the Fields
Ku Wuji · AI Music
Inspired by Ouyang Xiu’s “秋怀” (Autumn Reflections), these entirely new lyrics tell of giving autumn back to the fields.
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Chinese-style lyrical ballad
Calling Your Name After the Snow Clears
Ku Wuji · AI Music
Inspired by Li Bai's “Song of the North Wind,” these original lyrics call out to you once more after the snow has stopped.
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Chinese-Style Narrative
Campaign Clothes, Dreams of Home
Ku Wuji · AI Music
Inspired by Du Fu’s “Five Later Poems on Going Beyond the Frontier,” these new lyrics tell of the names beyond the military banners.
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Chinese-Style Folk
Freshly Cooked Rice Beneath the Pines
Ku Wuji · AI Music
Inspired by Li Bai's “Lodging at Old Mother Xun's Home Below Wusong Mountain,” these new lyrics evoke the moonlight in a bowl of hot rice.
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Chinese-Style Folk
An Autumn Cup Awaits an Old Friend
Ku Wuji · AI Music
Inspired by Wu Wenying's “Waves Washing the Sand: Seeking Wine from Wu Jianshan on the Double Ninth,” these new lyrics tell of warming another pot of wine high in the mountains.
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Chinese-style lyrical ballad
Willow Shadows Carry Autumn's Song
Ku Wuji · AI Music
Inspired by Li Shangyin's “Willow,” moving from spring gardens and dancing feasts into clear autumn, the slanting sun and cicada calls. Concise lines convey the melancholy of life's late years, with qin, piano and strings answering one another, and separate male and female solo performances.
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Chinese-style lyrical ballad
Finding the Way Home by the Yangtze and Han
Ku Wuji · AI Music
Inspired by Du Fu's “江汉” (The Yangtze and Han Rivers), moving from an ailing body far from home and a lone moon over the homeland to undiminished ambition at sunset and an old horse that knows the way. Concise lines preserve the complex feelings of longing to return yet remaining away, and of being old yet still of use. Piano, low strings, and xiao flute respond to one another, with separate male and female solo renditions.
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Chinese-Style Rock
Lingering Strings by the Yi River
Ku Wuji · AI Music
Inspired by Tao Yuanming's “In Praise of Jing Ke,” these entirely new lyrics tell of the Yi River offering no goodbye.
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Chinese-Style Folk
Rain Clears over a Fresh Go Board
Ku Wuji · AI Music
Inspired by the anonymous poem “Ruan Lang Gui · Spring Wind Blows Rain Around the Withered Branches,” these new lyrics tell of slowly placing Go stones after the rain stops.
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Chinese-Style Narrative
A Homecoming Song amid the Smoke of War
Ku Wuji · AI Music
Inspired by Li Bai's “After the Turmoil, Exiled to Yelang by Imperial Grace: Recalling Old Travels and Expressing My Thoughts, Presented to Wei Liangzai, Prefect of Jiangxia,” these original lyrics tell of devoting the rest of one's life to the mountains and rivers.
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Chinese-style lyrical ballad
Dreams of Parting on the Luo River
Ku Wuji · AI Music
Inspired by Cao Zhi’s 《洛神赋》 (Rhapsody on the Goddess of the Luo River), these newly written lyrics say goodnight across the Luo River.
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Chinese-style lyrical ballad
A Straw Rain Cape in Cold Snow
Ku Wuji · AI Music
Drawing on the lone boat, straw raincoat, and bamboo hat in Liu Zongyuan's 《江雪》 (River Snow), the song unfolds a scene of piercing chill through empty mountains, deserted paths, silent cold waters, and solitary fishing. Male and female voices sing separate solos, preserving the utter solitude and unresolved meaning amid wind and snow through a gentle melody and spare instrumentation.
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