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SingerSen (歌者森)


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Sen released her debut EP Sirens in 2011. Described as an "ambient, alternative/electro singer", her ethreal and strong voice strikes a unique tone in today's music industry.

Chinese name: 歌者森 Also known as only ''森''
English name: Singersen
Genre: Alternative, Electronica, Pop
Region: Beijing, China
Birthday: 30th of November
Height: 168cm
Hobbies: Travelling, painting, watching films, collecting Barbies, reading
Admires: Stephen King, JK Rowling, Neil Gaiman
Likes: Nature, animals, the supernatural, protecting the environment

Official Website: SingerSen.com
Discography: Sirens, Ghost Street + The World in my Eyes available here.


Discography

Youtube samples

I was expecting her voice to be more powerful to match the instrumentation...her voice is really weird to me though :/ I don't like it...but damn the instrumentation in her songs are gorgeous.

omg my type of songs HAHA.
do u have her album somewhere?

OoOoo... I like ambient music. Awesome. ^_^

I like it! It's all crazy lol

and her vocals ARE amazing...well, I mean in the sense of her vocal capability lol Yeah, the things she does in Ferry is really cool, and gorgeous.

Oh yes, a thread for her! :heart
Are people interested in her EP?
Then I'm going to upload it here!

http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showth...92#post2769392

I just have a version without Ferry though.
And it's from 2010, you wrote 2011 in the first post.^^

I kn ow her for already a pretty long time, thanx to Kanzaki:)
She is really great, i bought her album on iTunes last year, and I am still addicted to it.
But I didn't know abou the song ferry, is it new?

oh and you forgot theses video from her ;)(she is only for a small part in shadows):

Her voice is ****in flawless. I'd like to see some more j-pop/j-rock singers have this sort of vocal control.

Need new material from this woman, asap.

she reminds me to sa ding ding.I really like her music *O*,but her voice is a bit weird.
overall,i like her!!!!

The composition of her songs are down right mesmerizing. My favorite song of hers is "Sirens". Her vocals do sound a bit intimidating in some songs though...

Her music is awesome! I've been searching for an artist like this for months! Her voice will take a little getting used to, but overall she's great! :)

Just listened to Wolf. Homg amayzin'.

'Scuse me while I go listen to more. :luv2

I love this woman, her EP never gets old. She needs to release "Shadows" on something asap lol. She makes me feel like this is what Sa Ding Ding would sound like if her music was less folk/traditional-y.

What is her name!? Sen in Chinese, SEN, Singer Sen (in Chinese). I've always used the last one. Idk idk.

Singer Sen is how it is translated on her EP, so I guess that's the right one. Always used that one as well.^^

@Koumori:
I really wonder, is Ferry a first press bonus track or something?
Cause my EP just includes 6 songs and I never heard of Ferry before as well.

Yay a thread for Sen ! I love her songs so much, especially Ferry ! So unique !

Sen is freaking amazing :heart
My favorites are: Wolf, Siren and Snow Queen.

Thanks a lot for making a thread for this unique lady :D

Thank you so much for this thread!

I LOVE her voice!! :smitten
My favourite songs are "Snow Queen", "Siren", "Wolf", "Drunk" and "Miss Spider"! Her music is really haunting!

Just downloaded her album recently as the mp3 album was available on amazon.co.uk and love it and her voice. My version doesn't have Ferry either - will have to try and hear it!

mi|kshake~

Oh my, thank you so much for telling!!!
I'm buying for sure! :yes
If YesAsia puts it up. ._.

Ghost Street sounds more like normal pop and also happier than her whole first EP.
Excited to listen to the rest of the EP!

wooah didnt know she had something new!

it sounds like imogen heap.

By the way, here's her official youtube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/SingerSenChina

She hosts it herself! There are a lot live performances uploaded.
She was in Zürich in March, no that far away from me, aw!

That's exactly what I thought. It's a lot less dark than her previous release, but not that that's necessarily a bad thing. I enjoyed the songs on this one, too.

Excited! Yay!

...I just realized it's already been released. Derp. STILL EXCITED!

Oh. My God. I'll have to get this right away.

^ this was up on jpopsuki and I decided to try it out...
love her!

i dont know why, but she reminds me of enya (although they do different styles of music) I guess its just the new age-ie feel to it.
that and Frou Frou

^ oh thats cool... although Frou Frou and Imogen Heap are the same person (well, Frou Frou the band, Imogen Heap the lead singer)

Ill have to check out her website... I wonder how this did on oricon?

Wow I need that inmy life ! The only new song I've listened to is Dust, but oh my word I love it! It's like my new Ferry ! Isn't there a link on AHS, I don't have an account on Jpopsuki :(

oh wow... lol, I completely missed the fact that this was chinese... :thud
lol...

i was sound interested in the sound that I didnt even think about her vocals.. lol. I have always been interested in chinese music charts and what not but never went looking, now would be a good time to do it a guess.

Blue Jellyfish and Dust has got to be my two, absolute most favorite new songs :heart The album is simply amazing.

I only recent got into her when I was looking up artists similar (sorta) to alan. She's absolutely lovely.

This made me fall in love with her even more lol

Thanks a lot ! I can't wait to listen to these songs !! :love

I remember I tried listening to her before, but I didn't like it.

But now I'm loving everything I hear :luv2 I guess I just needed to be in the right mood lol

Sure! I already translated one verse of Siren :laugh

I can't translate them right now since I should be studying, but just tell me what you need translated :laugh (I added all the Chinese lyrics to my iTunes already :luv2)

I start my winter break next Tuesday, so I'll have a month of doing nothing...I need stuff to do/translate (This is what happens when alan went back to China...I just have all this free time :laugh)

Ferry (渡) English Translation
Share with credits please (because I pulled out many hairs trying to translate this :laugh)
It kind of makes sense if you look at it carefully :yes

Where to go? Where did we come from?
A beginning. Without a trace.
A worn body. Soul of the wind.
Without a result. An empty space.

The black daytime. A profound whiteness.
Pleasingly. The road opens.
Towards the smoke. It clears the dust
Autumn goes. Spring comes.

The palm. The back of the hand.
Good and evil. All throughout my self
In front of my body. Behind my shadow.
Mysticism. Among us.

This side. The other side.
A remembrance. Release the love.
This life. The next lifetime.

The lyrics kind of remind me of Charon's ferry from Greek mythology now that I look at it.

Also "this side. The other side" can also be translated as "this shore. The other shore" :)

I understand my own translations now :thud

Thank you Pommy! :heart You can tell she's a writer. Beautiful lyrics~

No problem! And here's another translation!

Siren (塞壬) English translation
Share with credits also please!

The dark clouds densely cover the sky.
A storm is coming.
Fog float up to the surface of the sea.
It disappeared, the path back towards home.
Faintly,
A phantom of the opera in the sky
As if it was singing
Beckons for me.

Come (siren siren siren siren)
Come (siren siren siren siren)
Come (siren siren siren siren)
Come (siren siren siren siren)
Confusing as the wind,
Blurring

She slowly come towards me.
With her angel-like blue eyes,
So moving
That I forgot to breathe.
Her black wings,
Her white feathered-like hair
She leads me with her song
And pulls me towards the wrong path.

Come (siren siren siren siren)
Come (siren siren siren siren)
Come (siren siren siren siren)
Come (siren siren siren siren)
Confusing as the wind

She shook her wings
And smilingly landed by my side.
She held my hand
And together we jumped into the sea

Come (siren siren siren siren)
Come (siren siren siren siren)
Come (siren siren siren siren)
Come (siren siren siren siren)
Confusing as the wind,
Blurring




So in love with this song, the lyrics, everything :luv2 So haunting

This was kind of a sad excuse for an album. I mean, I already own her first EP so there's really not much incentive to purchase it. BUT, Asura is awesome. Such a fantastic song and the cover is very pretty.

Drunk (醉) English translation

In the air, a kind of dizzying fragrance fluttered over.
The twinkling night, I, where does my body lie?
(A familiar song starts to play)
Ka yi lo yi so yi yo
Sa yi lo yi so yi yo
Wa~~~

In my wine cup, there are strange and familiar faces.
I love this moment.
There is nothing I can't do. There is also nothing.
No matter what kind of dusk the dusk is now
When will the moon be clear and bright?
(A familiar song starts to play)
Ka yi lo yi so yi yo
Sa yi lo yi so yi yo
Wa~~~

I believe she drew her inspiration from this Chinese poem

Edit:

Footprints (腳印) English translation

The shadows come and go
They never stay
In the past and in the future,
No one will be lonely
A pair of small footprints
Has walked out greatness
Looking far out as if
They returned back to start

Courage seems pointless
But courage has replaced fearlessness
From the start till the end,
They're forever buried
That setting sun has burned into ashes again
The grass beneath the stone wildly bloom out a flower
And then I realized that I've changed
So I set my footstep upon this mysterious road

Courage seems pointless
But courage has replaced fearlessness
From the start till the end,
They're forever buried

I think when I reach the end
I will discover a miracle

I'll just hold the title "queen of Chinese translations" :D

And I got curious with Ferry, so I asked her on Weibo what was the origin of the song. She reweiboed my post and said

Pommy, thank you so much for the translations. I once tried google translate for her lyrics, but that wasn't the most accurate of translations, as you can imagine.

Thank you for the download links Koumori. Without you I'd never have discovered this amazing artist. :love

Super excited to listen to her album~ I'm going to set aside an hour of alone time and light some candles just for it, heheh.

Okay....so I've accidentally checked Pomsy's post on Facebook With Snow Queen. I actually didn't think i'll like her voice after i listened to her for the first time, since most of the chinese singers i've heard are way too soft for me, but the sound of the music intrigued me and had to download the album...after listening to the whole album i hear she's got quite a power in her voice. And she can soften it up where she needs to. I have to say i had never heard anything like that. It's creepy, haunting and unique and her voice just gives a perfect spicing. Not mentioning the arrangements, the creeping/poping in guitar out of nowhere, strings and piano...just breathtaking.

She's deffinitelly a unique case. I am absolutelly stunned.
This absolutelly will become a "to listen to" artist in my list!

I think my faves are Wolf (love this one a lot), Footprints, Asura, Sirens and Snow Queen.

I don't know why but with some songs I get a "GACKT" feeling lol well more like his early works where he used lots of different sounds and instruments for his songs. The experimenting period. Strange of me, I know, i am just probably HEARING things i want to hear xD

ph and Koumori Thanks for all the links for download!♥

@susio: Oh hoho, I totally understand! Google Translate is really a pain :laugh

@artcika: Hehe please "accidentally" click on more of my recommendations next time :D

And I love Ghost Street!
It was hard to translate since there's a lot of imagery that non-Chinese fans wouldn't really get because she uses a lot of idioms that gives you a picture of ancient China. I tried to translate it to a more modern view of urban cities :)

Ghost Street (簋街)
The neon lights of the city
Is ready to stir up a fever wave in the air.
My heart is filled with hope again.
Standing at the familiar street corner,
Your smile keeps on emerging before my eyes.
I like you taking my hand and walking ahead together.

Tonight I’m where I wanna be
Tonight belongs to you and me
Tonight I’m near infinity
Feel like I’m gonna shatter
I am gonna crack

The sleepless night
Is like a couple-in-love's happiness.
Keep on blossoming to your heart's content,
I want you to embrace me
On this passionate street.
My heart goes towards the dreamy night, the tender night.
Gather all of the shadow streamers for this complicated night, this luminous night.
My heart goes towards the dreamy night, the tender night.

Tonight I’m where I wanna be
Tonight belongs to you and me
Tonight I’m near infinity
Feel like I’m gonna shatter
I am gonna crack

The brilliant lanterns has just been lit up. The joyous night is still young.
The bustling traffic, the rippling red lights.
The lively and vigorous city, the overflowing emotions leaves a pleasing fragrant.

Monologue:
When the night arrives,
I know that this city has just woke up.
I am enjoying
The penetrating warmth in the air.
Tonight, this city is mine
Just like I am yours tonight.

^lol i did click on that video you posted there out of curiosity because of the part of the lyrics....waiiiiit it was Sirens that was accidental xD Snow Queen came after xD

^ It was Siren :luv2 :luv2 :luv2
My favorite! I've been repeating it all day lol

Lol the English title is quite misleading cause the Chinese title is actually a real street in Beijing.
But the Chinese lyrics have this sort of fluidity to them, so I tried to translate that across a bit...(Yay~ I'm learning to take creative liberties with my translations muahaha)

(After googling, the whole song made sense to me lol)
http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/j...pscf8a59ce.jpg
Now you guys have a picture to the song!

Oh! Cause 簋街 is pronounced as gui jie

But ghost in Chinese is also pronounced as "gui"

So she made a multilingual pun :thud

^^ lol a multilingual pun xD that just makes me think of....GACKT.... again.... and his word play xD *shots self* gaaaaaaaah~

btw Snow Queen kinda made me think about Evanescence's Snow White Queen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-07E8_0_6Ps

Thank you so much for all the translations! ^_^ I really appreciate it.
Would you happen to have translated "Shadows"? I would really like to know what that song is about. o.o

I'll probably translate that one next week :)

The less words she uses, the harder it is to translate :laugh

omg pommy you are an angel :heart

I have Sirens and Ghost Street (both versions) on repeat. She's weirdly cool! :laugh

I accept thanks in the form of cookies and chocolate :lech

But AH! I found an amazing (actual) live performance of Siren! Omg :thud Too amazing

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjE5OTI3Njky.html

Happiness is finding artists that surprise and impress you :)

I'm glad I finally got around to listening to her lol Her albums sat on my hard drive for like a year.

i thought that doesn't exist at all, just some random fan recorded clips....
that one is pretty amazing!

^ I know right?! :luv2 There's only one live performance on Youtube, but meh...hate China and their playbacks :rambo

^ yeah i came across that one... -_-" i was like "what? that's a full playback, are you kidding me?" and they give that all pompastic 'performance"... *:rolleyes

Ah I've worked so hard to translate Cables's lyrics :yes


Cables
In a baobab tree
Root exposed
Capsized
Weak as a beetle
You wake me up every spring and I unfurl
See that grin
Tell me I’m feeble
Tell me I’m alone
And I feel the cables that tether me
Grow weak and unstable
The earth will not keep me

I will wait in these chains
Like a bomb
Shackles thirty and rusting
Crumbling and strained
A voice is faintly calling for me
And I feel the cables that tether me
Grow weak and unstable
The earth will not keep me

================================================== ========

And here's Shadows...It didn't make sense in Chinese, so I doubt it will make sense in English :laugh
The actual translation of "Shadows" should be "Shadow World"

Shadows
Things. Emptiness.
Shadows. Lost.
Shadow world. Shadows within that world.

don't go there don't be a hero
no one cares take you to zero
don't go there you will be sorry
don't you dare go out in glory

Yellow dusk. Hole.
Back to basics. I'm not myself.
Shadow world. Shadows within that world.

don't go there don't be a hero
no one cares take you to zero
don't go there you will be sorry
don't you dare go out in glory

Things. Empty
Shadows. Lost.
Yellow dusk. Holes.
Back to basics. I'm not myself.
Ideas. Reversal
Time. Thick fog.
Chaos.

don't go there don't be a hero
no one cares take you to zero
don't go there you will be sorry
don't you dare go out in glory

:D I'm the designated SingerSen translator ;)

And here's Wolf~!
I seriously love how she sound like she's howling in the song!

Wolf
It's closing in, the sound of a heartbeat
Breathe breathe breathe, it's crowded
A hot shady atmosphere, fresh memories
A gibberish song, I bit down on the mystery

It's closing in, the sound of a heartbeat
Breathe breathe breathe, it's crowded
With nothing to fear, I cannot stop
Chase chase chase, the temptation of blood

edit: Another translation!

Asura
Life and death are flickering
Who cares how time goes by?
He shakes heaven and earth. He shakes mountains and earthquakes
Who is this person that can call upon wind and beckon the rain?

Asura
As spring leaves and autumn arrives
He mumbly sings
"I'm free"

Asura, anatta within the chaos
Asura, talking to himself

Searching for that nascent soul
Content with one's good and evil
A heavenly festival with morals ahead and literature behind
Tsk tsk at those troubling words, how can one withstand it?

Asura
As spring leaves and autumn arrives
He mumbly sings
"I'm free"

Asura, anatta within the chaos
Asura, talking to himself
Asura, anatta within the chaos
Asura, talking to himself


*Asura is a group of people, but since she didn't use a pronoun, I just used "he"
*Nascent means "just coming into existence and beginning to display signs of future potential; not yet fully developed."
*Anatta refers to the notion of "not-self" or the illusion of "self". In the early texts, the Buddha commonly uses the word in the context of teaching that all things perceived by the senses (including the mental sense) are not really "I" or "mine", and for this reason one should not cling to them

Lots of free time....so

Dust
Sunlight fliters through the glass windows
I begin to wake up.
No one cares where our bodies lie
Including myself.
No desires, no emotions
But just quietly keeping a distance from the world
No words, no traces
Just like this, floating in the air

I just want to drift, drift. Drift, drift
I just want to drift, drift. Drift, drift
Until I'm old

Another gust of wind blows by
I dizzily whirl through the air
I've long grown used to this kind of tear
Well, it's like no one will remember
No tears, no sadness
The past, the present, it has long left me
No struggle, no strength
Maybe one day, I will forget myself

I just want to drift, drift. Drift, drift
I just want to drift, drift. Drift, drift
Until I'm old

Blue Jellyfish
I've swum for a long time, this blue planet
I just want a taste of this new kind of freedom

During the day and in the night, I've never looked back
My transparent body lights up

At the end of my dreams, you wave to me
Desiring for my gentleness

Your smiling face, your touching glance
Should I reach out my hands?

In that instant moment, the brilliant sky
Stings my eyes

The ice-cold net, the ice-cold boat
Ceased my breath

Your smiling face, the call of the devil
Kills my love

The blue fantasy, the blue flames
Are no match for your danger

At the end of my dreams, the blue planet
Will you be lonely after losing me?

Singer
I walk past the antelope's hilltops
I walk past the elf's mines
I wiggle through the mole's granary
Ne ne ne ne
I hear the dwarfs singing
Ding dong ding dong

I walk past the hummingbird's greenhouse
I walk past the elephant's cemetery
I sleep atop the dinosaur's eggshell
Ne ne ne ne
I dreamt of the angel's kitchen
Ding dong ding dong

La~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I walk past the turtle's riverbed
I walk into the baby's dream
I hop across the penguin's wave
Ne ne ne ne
I see the mermaid's moonlight
Ding dong ding dong

I'm so happy I found this thread

Just found her out yesterday...and I'm already in love! SingerSen is AMAZING!!

Oh yeah, I found the MV for her song, Cables

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=798l8wG96BQ

Blue Jellyfish is the next song to have a MV

that song just makes me laugh cause...there was this one time when I was all high...and, I had this...vision thingy about a beach with pink jellyfish, and how, if you were a good person, you could go up and give them hugs....

but if you were a douchebag person, they'd turn blue and suffocate you...


anyways...excited for the mv :heart

She said that for the MV, it was shot entirely underwater and they took 9 months to edit it.

And also, she doesn't know how to swim lol

I wonder if Mimichild's avatar was from the shoot?

That sounds quite amazing :yes

They're been using her underwater photoshoot as the promo image for this MV and now I see why :thud
The actual MV sucks :thud

I have no idea why they took so long to edit the video and it still looks like that :thud

I'm mostly disappointed on what she's wearing and how they styled her.. And the gci water doesn't really help it

Thank you for the translations! ^_^

I have the lyrics for Snow Queen
(by google translate)

The story began from a little girl,
She did not have a father and mother
She was always a person telling their own stories,
Nobody cares about her
One night, she woke up crying,
Wake of the front of the snowman
Tell her that as long as the exchange with tears,
She will have a home

Wow ~
The devil summon temptation fragile desire

The little girl walked into the kingdom of snow
Where my father and mother
She was becoming increasingly frail,
And unhappy
She shed more tears of grief,
She wanted to go home begging Snowman
The snowman exposed hideous face
Will not let her go

Wow ~
The devil summon temptation fragile desire

Tears snowman body blood
The snow Kingdom snow world
Too many children are imprisoned here.
Just because cowardly
She vowed to defeat the Snowman
No longer afraid to shed tears,
Told myself to be brave,
Strong life

Wow ~
The devil summon temptation fragile desire
The devil summon temptation fragile desire

^Wow, love the lyrics - thanks for the translation! I need to go listen to Snow Queen now!

mi|kshake~