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Paper Wealth

by Erica Dee Mah

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    releases May 8, 2024

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1.
Paper Sons
2.
Morning Chorus
3.
The Garden 02:58
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Inch by inch, and stone by stone Build a garden for a home Sweep out the pinecones Wave to the neighbours Dig a pond for the lilies Surrounded by water Row by row, we watch it grow To a garden bright and full Scrap plans for the freeway These parts are worth saving Bamboo flowers rarely From both sides of the ocean Street by street, we feel the defeat Put bars on the shop windows We’ve still got the garden We’ve still got the garden Madonna is watching Over the Saltwater City
4.
Wild Horse Creek - Horse Racing
5.
Crocuses

about

I released my first album of guzheng songs in 2022, The Sargasso Season. When it was released, I wrote that “by the time this music reaches your ears, I will likely be hearing and playing the guzheng differently, as there is so much left to learn”. That holds true, both then and still now.

If this is your first time hearing the guzheng, I invite you to go and listen to some of the classical songs that I have immensely enjoyed learning to play as a guzheng student. Fill your ears with the sounds of nature found in the vibrant strings: birds, flowers, mountains, clouds, and rivers in songs like High Mountain and Flowing Water, Three Variations of Plum Blossom, Liu Yang River, and Fisherman’s Song at Dusk.

Paper Wealth draws on many traditional guzheng sounds. These songs reflect on the privilege of being born in Canada, and celebrate the ways that Chinese-Canadians continue to connect to their heritage across many generations.

credits

releases May 8, 2024

All songs written by Erica Dee Mah

Erica Dee Mah - guzheng, vocals
Darcy McCord - cello, vocals
Jordy Walker - percussion, bass
Alana Martinson - violin, additional vocals on “Morning Chorus”
Toby Moisey - alto flute

Produced, mixed and engineered by Jordy Walker at Stackwall Sound, Whitehorse, YT
Mastered by Philip Shaw Bova at Bova Lab Studio, Ottawa, ON
Cover photography by Erik Pinkerton

This album was created on the traditional territory of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation and the Ta’an Kwäch’än Council. This recording was made possible thanks to the support of the Yukon Government.

Thank you to Darcy, Jordy, Alana, and Toby for playing these songs with me.

All songs Copyright Erica Dee Mah, SOCAN, 2024 © all rights reserved

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Erica Dee Mah Whitehorse, Yukon

Erica Dee Mah is a contemporary folk singer-songwriter, and guzheng player based in Whitehorse, Yukon.

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