EARSNAIL

Earsnail is an electronic music duo comprised of musicians Wang Xu and Yan Shuai. Combining their individual approaches to music, the duo is unconstrained by boundaries of genre. Their experimental style reimagines the possibilities of sound and how music can be presented.

Having played in rock bands when they were younger, Wang Xu and Yan Shuai have both been creating and performing music prior to Earsnail. In 2013, the two would meet up and experiment with the production equipment they each had on hand. These early days of experimentation became the foundation for Earsnail. Now, their production style has matured immensely, each of their tracks featuring richly complex elements. Yan Shuai shares that one of his favorite samples is from a field recording of a random saxophonist they met at the park - even though the original recorded sound wasn’t interesting, they were able to take segments of it and integrate it perfectly into a track.