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Wu Fei"s Music Daily

An original piece of music every weekday from genre-bending composer, guzheng virtuoso, and vocalist Wu Fei. Concerts & tour info on www.wufeimusic.com wufeimusic.substack.com

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8:29

#1156 — St. Rumbold’s happy horse 梅赫伦的快乐马

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2025/05/27

Good morning, afternoon, and evening, I recorded this solo guzheng improvisation today with the memory of a horse sculpture I saw in Mechelen, Belgium two weeks ago. I was having dinner in the square of St. Rumbold’s Cathedral. I noticed this horse head above me. It had a subtle smile (photo below). How cute it is! Hope this piece brings you joy today. Wu Fei 吴非Wufeimusic.comWu Fei's Music Daily is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or

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7:17

#1155 — Black racer 黑游

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2025/05/23

Good morning, afternoon, and evening, I recorded this étude today inspired by my encounter with a northern black racer snake during my hike in the forest yesterday (photo below). This kind of snake is common in the state of Ohio. In fact, the northern black racer is the state reptile of Ohio. Seeing it near my home makes me happy that our economy system must be good for the black racers. This snake was very calm sun bathing when I saw it. It did not move at all when I walked past it. Living in

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7:17

#1152 — Halmstad glass

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2025/05/19

Good morning, afternoon, and evening,I recorded this three-track guzheng piece today. One of the beautiful places I played in Europe with my new ensemble House of Wu Fei was in the Halmstad City Library. The glass art installation in the middle of the library was magical (photo below). Every time I looked up in front of me while I was playing, the colorful glass pieces took me to a wonder land. Hope this piece brings you to your wonder place. Wu Fei 吴非Wufeimusic.com Wu Fei's Music Daily is a

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9:18

#1151 — Dötlingen’s farm 徳特林根的牧歌

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2025/05/16

Happy Friday everyone, I created this two-track guzheng piece today thinking about the walk I did with my band mates from the House of Wu Fei last week in a town called Dötlingen in Germany. An unexpected wheat farm popped out of the forest (photo below). It gave me a sense of sudden comfort that I wanted to lay on top of the farm. I hope this piece brings you sweet dreams tonight. Here is the link of the live concert video of House of Wu Fei debuting in the legendary venue Bimhuis in the heart of

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6:35

#1149 — Flames in the hollow 灼灼

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2025/04/25

Happy Friday everyone, I just created this solo guzheng étude in a very fast tempo. I didn’t wear finger picks and used a bandanna threading through the strings. You can hear the half muted sound effect of the guzheng. I was inspired by the fire pink flowers that are blossoming in the wet forest near my home in Nashville. The rain from earlier boosted a lot of new blossoms! Hope this piece brings you fun energy into the weekend! The Chinese title of the song is called 灼灼. The phrase originated from

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10:42

#1147 — Guzheng night song 99 古筝夜曲第九十九号

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2025/04/23

Good morning, afternoon, and evening, This night song improvisation was recorded this morning. It captures the delicate pink early azaleas of Nashville. Yes, they have blossomed fully (photo below)! It is a song good for meditation if that is something you do. When I play or compose, I like to do deep breathing as I phrase the melodic passages. It feels like nature’s cycles—where flowers bloom, fade, and return, just as the guzheng’s strings echo into the night. On a separate note, one of my

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9:12

#1145 — Flamingo nap 小憩的火烈鸟🦩

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2025/04/21

Good morning, afternoon, and evening, I composed and recorded this two-track guzheng piece this morning, inspired by a flamingo. My first sight when I entered the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans last week was a flamingo standing on one leg and taking a nap. As a yogi, that is a goal for me to work on now: to sleep standing on one leg! House of Wu Fei Europe Tour 2025I will be sending out more free music newsletters this week since I took last week off with my family for spring break, and I will be

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4:32

#1144 — New Orleans’ peacock 新奥尔良的孔雀

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2025/04/20

Happy Passover, Easter and Earth Day!My children had their spring break from school this last week. We went on a road trip to New Orleans. At the Audubon Zoo, a free-range peacock (photo below) caught our attention. It was my first time seeing a peacock only a few feet away opening up his tail. He shook his feathers and made loud callings. It was quite of a show! Apparently, he’s used to having humans near him. It was definitely the highlight of the day! Hope this track brings you joy into your day

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8:51

#1143 — In pink 山月桂

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2025/04/11

Good morning, afternoon, and evening, This guzheng solo was recorded today, inspired by the early pink azalea—also known as the pinxter flower (photo below). These delicate blooms are lighting up the hills of West Nashville right now, and they’re my favorite wildflowers in the area. Native to eastern North America, they thrive everywhere from Alabama to New Hampshire, their pink-and-white blossoms filling the spring air with a strong, sweet fragrance. In this improvisation, I used extensive double

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8:23

#1140 — Feline tier 第九夜

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2025/04/08

Good morning, afternoon, and evening, Thank you for being patient with me for the last a few days! I had a great time performing for the community of University Notre Dame with my dear friend and music collaborator Abigail Washburn. We started off with a stressful drive leaving Nashville last Thursday. Tornado warnings and flood warnings kept popping out of our phones every twenty minutes. The rain was pouring down very heavily the whole time as we drove through Kentucky. But we made it to South

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Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn in concert University of...

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2025/04/01

Wu Fei and Abigail Washburn Saturday, 7:30pm April 5, 2025Leighton Concert HallTickets link is here.Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Abigail Washburn is a banjo virtuoso who became fluent in both the language and culture of China while prepping for a career in law focused on U.S.-China relations. Wu Fei, a Chinese musical prodigy and master of the 2,500-year-old 21-string guzheng, was destined for a professional career performing state-sanctioned works in her homeland. Diverging from those

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5:54

#1137 — A ballad of dewdrop promises 紫露之约

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2025/03/31

Good morning, afternoon and evening,This two-track guzheng composition was recorded today. It is inspired by a Virginia spiderwort (photo) in the forest near my home. How brilliantly the purple and the yellow are together! The crispy green leaf is like an eye massager. I would love to have an outfit that has the exact same color combination as this flower with the same sunshine on me. I hear these colors in the harmonies I use in this piece. Hope it brings you joy today! On Thursday, I will go on a

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6:35

#1136 — Glissando rain 揉弦听雨，海棠眉

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2025/03/30

Good morning, afternoon and evening,Hope you are all having a restful Sunday. Thank you for being patient with me in the last few days. Today, I am back in my recording rhythm again. This improvisation was just recorded in my studio as the soft and constant rain was coming down. My crabapple tree is in full blossom now (photo below). I have been waiting for this day since a year ago. Hope my music brings you a peaceful moment in your day. Wu Fei 吴非Wufeimusic.com This is a public episode. If you'd

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10:01

#1133 — Hot pink whisper 木兰语

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2025/03/24

Good morning, afternoon and evening,I just recorded this two-track guzheng (partly prepared) piece today. I used a metal handle that fell off from a measuring cup as part of the instrument (photo below). Now, it is my new music toy and a tuning fork. It produces a perfect D (below A4). During my morning hike, I saw budding magnolia flowers in the forest (photo below) when many trees were still bare. I instantly felt more energetic from being amused by its hot pink. Hope this piece brings you a

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5:45

#1130 — Bee and plum blossoms 蜂与梅

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2025/03/17

Good morning, afternoon, and evening,I just composed and recorded this piece on a warm spring day in Nashville. We had a big rain storm this weekend. There was a tornado watch alert. No tornado appeared, but a stretch of our road got washed up. It is drivable, but a repair is needed soon. Today, the weather is stunning again. Everything is growing. The birds, the creek, the frogs, the flowers, and trees are all full of sounds and colors. I loved seeing a bee drinking nectar on top of the beautiful

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9:36

#1129 — Sofia Gubaidulina 古拜杜林娜

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2025/03/14

Good morning, afternoon and evening,This piece was recorded yesterday after I heard the news of maestra composer Sofia Gubaidulina’s passing. She was 93 years old. The first time I learned about Gubaidulina’s work was when I was in high school studying composition at the China Conservatory of Music. One day, my main professor put this solo accordion recording on his Kenwood stereo (the best Japanese brand you could find in China at the time). He always blasted the crap out of his speakers whatever

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7:24

#1126 - Trees, strings, shadows 树、弦、影

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2025/03/11

Hi everyone, This video is the first one that I filmed outside this year. The weather is glorious in my Tennessee holler. I’ve double-dosed my allergy pills so that I can enjoy outdoor more. Playing music outside is the best, especially now before the bugs come out. Hope you enjoy this piece. You can hear my neighbor’s dog barking off and on in the background. Wu Fei 吴非wufeimusic.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes,

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4:47

#1125 — Slow boiling 慢工出细活

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2025/03/10

Good morning, afternoon, and evening,This three-track guzheng waltz was composed and recorded yesterday. I am never satisfied by music in tonal chromatic scale anymore. The chromatic scale is a musical scale with twelve pitches, each a semitone, also known as a half-step, above or below its adjacent pitches. In this piece, I initially laid down two tracks: the baseline and the melody, both in tonal scales. And then I felt that there was a huge piece missing with only the perfectly pitched phrases

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5:57

#1124 — Left side story 左弦儿的歌

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2025/03/07

Good afternoon and morning,I am back to alive from a week of strep throat torture! If you just got out of a sickness, let’s celebrate it. I recorded this three-track guzheng composition two hours ago. There wasn’t any particular inspiration except feeling good about not being sick again. You can hear my energy from this piece. I used a glass slide, a metal slide and a tuning fork to make a lot of sounds on the left side of the guzheng bridges (photo below). It was a lot of fun switching them around

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5:22

#1122 – Vanua Levu night song 大岛夜曲

Wu Fei"s Music Daily ·

2025/02/28

Happy Friday everyone,I just composed and recorded this three-track guzheng night song. Yesterday, I had to skip a recording day because my spring allergy was killing me. There was not one minute that I could sit straight up without blowing my nose for an entire day. I got too much back when I was wishing for a warm weather :D Today, I feel much better. Thank you all for your support and patience! This night song is inspired by my dream last night. I went back to Fiji in my dream (photo below)

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