Ai fen – I’ve Been a Body album launch
Intimate, acoustic, delicate. That's the new album by Polish-Chinese musician Ai fen, who lives in Prague. The new album reflects her experience of motherhood, the feeling of metamorphosis in the process of becoming a mother. Ai fen approaches this topic as a personal and philosophical exploration of the expectations placed on the female body. Motherhood, she suggests, is not only a biological possibility, but also a cultural construct linked to ideas about identity, value, and destiny.
Musically, the album differs from her previous two albums, Postforever and Daily Grief. Instead of electronics and beats, it features acoustic instruments such as piano, flute, and traditional Chinese musical instruments. Guests include Ema Brabcová, Adriana Morn, Kateřina Malá, and Andrey Rottina. The album I've Been a Body was released on November 20 by the Roman label White Forest.
Ai fen is a solo project by Ewelina Vlček-Chiu, a singer, musician, and producer also known from the witchwave duo ba:zel.
Special guests for the evening will be Ursula Sereghy and Luan Gonçalves.
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Ursula Sereghy is a producer, saxophonist, and composer working at the intersection of jazz, club music, and experimental electronica. Drawing on her jazz roots and curiosity about sound design, she creates lively, rhythmically elastic compositions that combine analog warmth with digital abstraction. Her album OK Box established her as one of the most prominent new artists in Central Europe and led to performances at festivals such as Unsound, Lunchmeat Festival, and Sanatorium of Sound Festival. Her work at Synth Library Prague reflects her belief that sound is a shared space—a space based on collaboration, open access, and collective discovery.
Luan Gonçalves views the bass as a place of texture, gesture, and resonance. His music moves between composed structures and improvisational dialogues, embracing both density and silence. Performing with Prague Quiet Music Collective, Talaqpo, and Jungle Debris, he develops collective listening as an artistic practice. Educated in Brazil, the Czech Republic, and Austria, Gonçalves weaves his experiences into a slowly unfolding exploration of the physical and emotional dimensions of sound, where structure dissolves into touch and rhythm transforms into atmosphere.
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