Heavy 沉重

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This cassette USB is a physical accompaniment to Stanley, a physical representation of the love embedded in the cassettes of Rainbow Chan’s grandmother. The cassette USB represents the performative romanticism of Stanley. An object that reproduces the past to map the future - the paradox of nostalgia.

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Lonely evenings and empty streets - Heavy 沉重 is a poignant anthem of longing, departure, and closure.

Heavy 沉重 is the second single from Rainbow Chan’s forthcoming EP, Stanley. Gentle passages blossom into a grand electronic ballad, as wistful vocals and majestic strings pull the weight of a foregone memory.

Completely self produced, Stanley is her exploration of a love past, a farewell to a city that’s changed forever. Inspired by the recorded mixtapes of her grandmother’s bedside, Stanley is like a loving cassette, re-recorded and passed down through generations of family, but always retaining traces of its warm core.

lyrics

You know the neon signs
that flicker when they’re broken?
Well that’s how my heart feels tonight,
it’s been seven days since we’ve spoken.

I avoid the backstreets that we used to take,
for the fear of running into you with nothing new to say.
Makes me heavy,
it makes me heavy inside.

Orange blossoms everywhere,
but not here, not now, not tomorrow.
And the things that used to lift me up
feel like strangers in my sorrow.

I avoid the backstreets that we used to take,
for the fear of running into you with someone else today.
Makes me heavy,
it makes me heavy inside.

My eyes are closed when I
see your face,
so clearly.
It makes me heavy.

credits

from Stanley, released November 25, 2021
Written, produced and performed by Rainbow Chan
Mixed by Matthew Hadley
Mastered by Andrei Eremin
3D Artwork by Cattin Tsai
Design by Anthony Ko and Fat Boy Zine

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Rainbow Chan Sydney, Australia

discography

Seven Sisters

Aug 2023
Stanley

Nov 2021
Triune

Feb 2020
Pillar

Jun 2019
FABRICA

Nov 2017
Long Vacation

Jul 2013

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