Exclusive Music Premiere: Fay Kueen Wang’s A Place Called Home is Not a Place

Beijing-raised, Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter and composer Fay Kueen Wang has been through a lot in the past decade. An emerging new voice in the industry, the multi-faceted artist has been exposed to many different countries, cultures, and careers. She’s encapsulated all of those experiences into her must-hear debut album, A Place Called Home is Not a Place.

Premiering exclusively on Pop Culturalist, Fay told us, “This EP is a set of songs that were written years ago during a dark time of mine. They are very dark and moody, maybe uncanny and eccentric. They are some of the first songs where I stopped making a distinction between rock and avant-garde classical music and just wrote whatever I wanted. The lyrics are about very personal things and events in my life, but I was also influenced a lot by surrealist artists, dream analysis, and astrology.

A big theme of the album is that as an immigrant or an alien, Home doesn’t feel like a physical place, but rather an inner space that contains a feeling of security, or an individual that makes you feel like home. The title track was written in 2013 while I was living in Boston about a mile from the site of the marathon bombing, and struggling with my immigration status. I also wrote about a nightmare I had during an eclipse (“Bunny Bastard”), a romantic encounter in the middle of Hurricane Sandy (“Before/After Sandy”), and an escape from heartbreak by diving into the work of Salvador Dali (“Atmospheric Zebra”).

Taken together, the record dreams of the dissolution of boundaries between beings, foreseeing all of us merging together and back into nature. When the human body and nature become one, Home is ourselves and is everywhere on this planet.”

Listen to A Place Called Home is Not a Place below and keep up with Fay by following her on Twitter and Instagram.