Hannah Peel & Beibei Wang The Endless Dance Vinyl LP Light Blue Colour 2026

Tracklist:

1. Wild Geese Arrive
2. Awaken The Insects
3. Mantis vs Horse
4. Grain RainSide
5. Tiger Sex
6. Feed The Fireflies
7. Offerings To The Beast
8. Limit Of Heat
9. Thunder Begins To Soften

The Endless Dance is the first collaborative album from Northern Irish producer and composer Hannah Peel and Chinese percussionist Beibei Wang. The record is grounded in the strength of ancient concepts, but comes alive with the joy and freedom of play as together, Peel and Wang travel through the 24 solar terms ofthe Chinese calendar with a cornucopia of sound in tow – synths and prepared piano alongside traditional and unconventional percussion. The album is collaged together from recordings made over five days at legendary rural studio Real World, a setting which aligned with the duo’s inspiration from the natural world creating a permanent record of their shared musical landscape, informed by the flora and fauna that emerge and retreat through the seasons. Both genre-defying, storied artists in their own right, Peel and Wang met whileworking on Manchester Collective’s 2023 album NEON and The Endless Dance certainly represents a step-change from the duo’s shared classicalbackgrounds – but their knowledge and training is also the foundation of itsfreewheeling audacity, giving them the confidence to trust their instincts.The album is produced by Mike Lindsay [LUMP, Tunng, Guy Garvey, JonHopkins] who, with free rein, brings added energy and creativity to the album,whilst Peel & Wang are also joined by Hyelim Kim on Daegeum, a Korean flutewith “colourful overtones on every note”.Track to track, The Endless Dance is unpredictable and unexpected, which is in partdue to the genuine curiosity and outside perspectives that each player brought tothe sessions. “I am so familiar with Chinese heritage, but I don't see how it can presentin electronics, for instance,” says Wang. “Hannah comes in with that direction, toimagine what the sounds could be together.” The characterful richness of the albumstems from the commonalities they found in the sessions. “We both come fromcultures where story is really important,” explains Peel. “The attention to detail comesfrom telling a story, and one note can set that off in a different direction.”The Endless Dance is a major work from two accomplished, singular artists – but it’salso the sound of mutual curiosity and shared fun, or as Wang puts it: “Two womentalking in totally different language that had a wonderful chat.”