Green Horizon - Blessing (2026)

I'm pretty sure I've said it before, but let me repeat myself: one of my favourite ambient pop artists comes from Taiwan and is definitely not well-known enough. Green Horizon has recently released her new EP on which she blends ambient pop with soft neoclassical tunes, everything honest, real and intimate.

The album is meant to be a blessing "for the forgotten, for the unloved, for those in pain" and I must say that the neoclassical beauty of the piano keys that sometimes lead the compositions here but sometimes also drown in peaceful noise are something that has to bring some kind of relief to anyone in need. It doesn't matter if the compositions are mostly piano soundscapes or if they are written around the airy vocals, all of them are beautiful.

I don't know much about the Asian poetry, but to me and to my layman heart, Green Horizon's lyrics feel very much like a rendition of poems form this part of the world. Honest and clearly indicating certain things, but still mysterious. Telling everything without telling everything. Which I guess is true to the music itself.

Blessing costs whatever you want to pay.

Check: Path

Country: Taiwan

Genre: piano ambient pop

Green Horizon - The Place I Buried Memories (2021)

Green Horizon - 沉睡 (2017)

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Green Horizon - The Place I Buried Memories (2021)

I discovered her already four year ago when she released her album 沉睡 , now the Taiwanese artist known as Green Horizon is back with this brilliant release called The Place I Buried Memories. And as always, she brings with her music tons of borderline ethereal and noisy ambient pop.

Her take on the genre is simple: very slow melodies with her beautiful, distorted voice and minimal arrangements in the backgrounds. Those can involve heavy basses and very, very noise guitar drones as it is in the opening track Once, but more characteristic for the artist is basing the compositions on piano keys that dance around very subtle noise in the backgrounds. The way the tracks here are made, makes the audience pay attention to every word the artist utters, every note the piano enchants and every bit of noise.

It's no surprise that her lyrics are filled with heavy and hopeless melancholia, "The rain has fallen all the day/Outside my room and inside me" is just an example, but such a beautiful one too - the songs are fairly simple and yet poetic enough to hide the pain within an artistic form. For me, it makes them only more poignant and telling a lot about the artist's melancholic soul.

The Place I Buried Memories costs whatever you want to pay.

Green Horizon - 沉睡 (2017)

Check: When the Pure Exploded (The Weight II)

Country: Taiwan

Genre: noisy ambient pop

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Green Horizon - 沉睡 (2017) EN

Green Horizon is a nickname of Taiwanese Ku Fang Yu, who "even if tired of sleeping, can sleep". Sounds like definition of a dreampop artist. Even the title of the album means basically "Sleeping".

The album is an oneiric walk through sad dreams of a delicate girl. It's peaceful like an old, well-established feeling of hopelessness that makes every failure treated with just a shrug. First of all though, like always and everywhere, it's about broken love. "The sad dreams will last / The sunshine is fading / While you’re coming into my mind" sings Ku Fang Yu in "The Sad Dreams Will Last".  Sometimes even so hopeless statements can't be argued with.

Especially when they are sung with a delicate, quiet voice accompanied by peaceful keys and ambient backgrounds. Green Horizon is a great example of how to use ambient pop to make people fall in love with your sadness. Also the artist's Instagram is worth checking to dive into an exotic routine from the other half of the world.

"沉睡" is available for "pay-what-you-want".

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Green Horizon - 沉睡 (2017) PL

Green Horizon to pseudonim Tajwanki Ku Fang Yu, która "nawet jeśli jest zmęczona spaniem potrafi dalej spać". Brzmi jak definicja dreampopowej artystki. Zresztą tytuł jej nowego albumu oznacza właśnie "śpiąc". 

Płyta to oniryczny spacer po smutnych snach delikatnej dziewczyny. Jest on spokojny jak z dawna ugruntowane poczucie beznadziei, przez które kolejne życiowe porażki kwitowane są tylko wzruszeniem ramion. Przede wszystkim jednak, jak zawsze i wszędzie, chodzi o niespełnioną miłość. "The sad dreams will last / The sunshine is fading / While you’re coming into my mind" śpiewa Ku Fang Yu w "The Sad Dreams Will Last". Czasem nawet z tak beznadziejnie ostatecznymi stwierdzeniami trudno się nie zgodzić. 

Zwłaszcza, gdy śpiewane są łagodnym, cichym głosem z akompaniamentem spokojnych klawiszy i ambientowych teł. Green Horizon to fantastyczny przykład na to jak wykorzystać ambient pop żeby zakochać innych w swoim smutku. Warto też spojrzeć na Instagram artystki żeby zanurzyć się nieco w egzotyczną codzienność z drugiej półkuli świata.

"沉睡" można mieć w ofercie "płać-ile-chcesz".

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