Second and last collaboration between Taiwanese singer Sam Liao and Tôn Thất An, three years after 西部 (Forgotten West), which garnered four nominations and three wins at the 2019 Taiwan Golden Melody Awards.
Once again he was given half of the album as composer, arranger and producer, building cinematic musical narratives around Sam Liao’s melodies and poetic lyrics.
Musically, the songs journey from indie pop to classical music (Be attacked 挵來挵去), drum’n’bass (Time walking in Secret 偷走的時間), electronic, down-tempo (Eternal 永生) to Asian traditional folk music (Beginning 初), with little musical winks to Puccini’s La Tosca or a Lied by Korngold!
Tôn Thất An once again assembled his posse of favourite musicians: Edric Chang (violin), Lin Hsu Wei (cello), Emily Chang (cello), Trần Thiên Lâm (Vietnamese bamboo flute), Pascal Vaucel (oriental guitar & rhythm guitar), Gao Zheng Bang (electric guitars and mandolin), Allen Wu (percussion), Himan Nath (tabla), with Sam playing guitar on some tracks, and An providing piano, keyboards, giolin, programming, percussion, vocals and string arrangements.

入 Into got nominated for best “Taiwanese Singer” at the 2023 Golden Melody Awards


Listen to the demos: