Lunar Noon – A Circle’s Round

San Francisco-based musician Michelle Zheng is the leader of Lunar Noon, a collaborative effort of instrumentalists in the Bay Area and around the world who make it possible for Zheng to tell a deeply personal story through music. Evading easy interpretation, Zheng’s musical world creates its narratives by intersecting contrasting genres, including classical, electronic, jazz, choral, and elements of Chinese folk.

Zheng emerges with another intimate tale in her sophomore album, A circle’s round.

Set for a November 15th release, the 66 minute-long, 14-track record is a sonic journey through the singer’s meditative search for peace. Acoustically, this message takes on many forms. The sounds of water and forest that have surrounded Zheng’s life and upbringing along California’s coastline find their way literally into the music.

The first track, “With and without” includes a recording of a creek from the woods of her childhood not necessarily to invoke a literal nostalgia of coming home but to underscore the titular meditation of the album as a whole: that a circle, when drawn, will always return to itself.

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