{"id":35158,"date":"2020-10-31T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=35158"},"modified":"2023-04-07T07:53:52","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T11:53:52","slug":"shanghai-restoration-project-announce-new-album-brave-new-world-symphony-share-single-involuntary-prophet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=35158","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai Restoration Project announce new album \u2018Brave New World Symphony\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Shanghai Restoration Project have announced that their new album \u2018Brand New World Symphony\u2019 will be out on December 11th&nbsp;via Undercover Culture Music. You can pre-order it <a href=\"https:\/\/prescriptionpr.cmail20.com\/t\/j-l-agjyjd-ejlihlkhu-t\/\">here<\/a>. Along with the LP announcement, they have shared their new single<strong> <\/strong><em>Involuntary Prophet<\/em> which is lifted from the album. Listen to the single via SoundCloud below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-block-embed-soundcloud\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Involuntary Prophet by Shanghai Restoration Project\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F893361010&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=750&#038;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Shanghai Restoration Project (SRP) is the Brooklyn based electronic duo of Dave Liang and Sun Yunfan. SRP\u2019s genre-bending, border-traversing, retro-futuristic soundscape often uses poetic melodies to draw audiences into imaginary settings where unexpected adventures unfold with a dissonant and polyrhythmic palette. In the shadow of murmuring outer space particles, one might encounter atonal analog synth lines against the backdrop of a tropical storm, household item percussion, and lost and found street sounds from around the world.&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>Initially inspired by the 1930s Shanghai jazz scene, SRP started out in 2006 as a solo project of Dave Liang. Having cut his teeth as a producer within the Bad Boy Records system, Liang\u2019s early works such as Instrumentals: Day &#8211; Night stood out for their organic synthesis of Chinese instrumentation and hip-hop. With Zodiac, SRP began expanding stylistically and brought choral music, electronica, and folk into its lexicon.&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>In 2011 Liang met multidisciplinary artist Sun Yunfan and the two soon started collaborating &#8211; first on music videos and live performance visuals and later on songwriting and production, beginning with 2015\u2019s playful fusion album \u2018Life Elsewhere\u2019 featuring jazz vocalist Zhang Le.&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>In 2017, the duo released \u2018R.U.R.,\u2019 a dark futuristic electronic album that imagines a world in which humans have been replaced by robots, who are trying to understand what led to its predecessors\u2019 extinction. This release marked the group\u2019s shift toward introspection: how to dream a different future and find balance in a changing world.&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>The group\u2019s 2019 album \u2018Flashbacks in a Crystal Ball\u2019 was a collection of songs about \u201caha\u201d moments: moments of reflection or intuition where we suddenly see the world in a different light. The release received positive coverage in Clash Magazine, DJ Mag, Earmilk, Electronic Sound, and Pop Matters.&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>\u2018Brave New World Symphony\u2019 was crafted entirely under quarantine in NYC during the pandemic. Stuck indoors in Brooklyn, the group crafted a collection of songs reacting to the individual and societal changes they observed during this unsettling time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i2.cmail20.com\/ei\/j\/E5\/633\/756\/001058\/csfinal\/SRP_BraveNewWorldSymphony_SunYunfan_3000-9900000000079e3c.JPG\" alt=\"Shanghai Restoration Project \u2018Brave New World Symphony\u2019 cover artwork\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>\u2018Brave New World Symphony\u2019<\/strong> <strong>track listing<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>1. R0<br>2. Involuntary Prophet<br>3. Present Continuous<br>4. Quest For The Silver Bullet<br>5. Hart Island Rhythm<br>6. Balcony Garden<br>7. Positive Disintergration<br>8. Night Odyssey<br>10. Zoom Christmas<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SRP has been featured on The 405, BBC Radio London, NTS Live, NPR Music, Little White Lies, &amp; Last Call with Carson Daly. Past live performances include Rio Cinema London, Silencio Paris, Amsterdam Dance Event, and the Great Wall of China. Most recently, the group\u2019s music appeared in an Apple commercial as well as the film \u201cHave a Nice Day,\u201d which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and was released by MUBI in the UK. The film\u2019s soundtrack received positive mentions from VICE, NPR, Variety, and The Guardian.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information on Shanghai Restoration Project, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/shanghairestorationproject.com\/\">shanghairestorationproject.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Shanghai Restoration Project have announced that their new album \u2018Brand New World Symphony\u2019 will be out on December 11th&nbsp;via Undercover Culture Music. You can pre-order <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=35158\" title=\"Shanghai Restoration Project announce new album \u2018Brave New World Symphony\u2019\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35159,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[13,23,28,30],"tags":[9591,9592,6810],"class_list":["post-35158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electronic-music","category-indie","category-music","category-new-release","tag-brave-new-world-symphony","tag-involuntary-prophet","tag-shanghai-restoration-project"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/E42DD7AE-E753-4537-A221-9C149C002E0F.jpeg?fit=900%2C507&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B2TV-994","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":35400,"url":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=35400","url_meta":{"origin":35158,"position":0},"title":"Shanghai Restoration Project share single \u2018Night Odyssey\u2019","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"December 19, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Genre-bending multidisciplinary electronic duo,\u00a0Shanghai Restoration Project, return with their new single Night Odyssey. 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