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	Lonely China Day   [back]                    EP
Wistful, dreamy, romantic, and truly eclectic: Lonely China Day, is the diamond in the rough. If there was ever a band that proved western indie-rock is spreading throughout the world like wild fire, it is this quartet from the unlikeliest of places…the heart of Beijing, China. Led by singer/songwriter/guitarist and lap top wizard Deng Pei, Lonely China Day formed in Beijing in 1996. He recruited his band members by riding around the city on his bicycle searching for musicians. They haven't looked back since. The eponymous EP, LCD's first U.S. release available on Tag Team Records, runs like a thick melancholic molasses, peppered with progressive indie rock, while consistently flowing and soaring with the beauty of a dream. "There is a Chinese saying, which goes: When I start to move, I can be faster than a rabbit; when I come to a rest, I am like a sleeping baby," elaborates Deng Pei. "My music is like this. I want to make fast music that wakes people up, that moves people. Yet again, I want to make calm music that makes people dream like a baby." Sung in a form of dead poetry from the Song and Tang dynasties with a modern twist, Deng Pei is true to his word. Check out the industrialized volcanic rock eruption that is "Beijing, Realism" and the cathartically emotional computerized melancholy of opener "Thou". Is it weird a band from China could appeal to western audiences? Not according to Deng Pei. "We all have the same longings and desires," he says. "Music is the one thing that transcends cultural boundaries. It's a language that can be understood all over the world."