Dou Wei


Dou Wei is a Chinese musician, singer-songwriter, composer, and music producer.

Music

Dou Wei is a multi-instrumentalist and produces music across many genres. He first came to prominence as a member of the hard rock group Black Panther. In the album Sunny Days and Mountain River, Dou Wei explored new frontiers in electronic and ambient music. From there on, Dou Wei's music took the direction of ambience, folk, and post-rock. His last two vocal albums, Acousma and Rainy Murmur with the E Band, drew influence from the UK post-rock group Bark Psychosis.
Since then, Dou Wei's music has become more improvisational, and he has consistently collaborated with others and formed the group Indefinite. His 2013 album Golden Curse was described as "a fifty-minute Buddhist metal freakout".
In 2014 he released the "one track album" Horoscope, with Zifeng on flute and Moxi Zishi.

Personal life

Dou Wei has two daughters: one named Dou Jingtong, born to his ex-wife, Chinese pop singer Faye Wong, and the other one, Dou Jiayuan, born to his ex-wife, photographer Gao Yuan.
On May 10, 2006, Dou was arrested after storming the office of The Beijing News' editorial department, destroying a computer keyboard and a DVD player, and pouring water on editors in the office, before setting fire to a car's boot parked in front of the newspaper's office building.
In March 2019, Dou Wei was married to a longtime fan two decades younger than him. She and Dou had a child in 2016.

Discography

Solo albums

  • 1994 Black Dream
  • 1995 Sunny Days
  • 1998 Mountain River
  • 2004 Eight Fragments
  • 2013 Yang Jin Mantra
  • 2015 ''Tian Zhen Jun Gong''

    Collaborations

  • 1991 Hei Bao Black Panther
  • 1994 Black Dream Dreaming
  • 1999 Acousma with E Band
  • 2000 Rainy Murmur with E Band
  • 2002 Gloriette by Water Mu Liang Wen Wang
  • 2003 One Stone, Two Birds with Indefinite
  • 2013 Mu Liang Wen Wang Mu Liang Wen Wang
  • 2004 The Story Between the Mirror and Flowers with FM3
  • 2004 Three States, Four Scores with Indefinite
  • 2004 Wuque Liuyan with Indefinite
  • 2004 Live On Mu Liang Wen Wang
  • 2004 Qiguo Shengdan with Indefinite
  • 2005 Shan Dou Ji Shi Ye Mu Liang Wen Wang
  • 2005 Ji Ran Pin Qi Guo Mu Liang Wen Wang
  • 2005 Ba He with Indefinite
  • 2005 Jiu Sheng with Indefinite
  • 2006 Shui Xian Hou Gu Qing Feng Yue with Indefinite
  • 2006 Pilgrimage to the East with Wu Na, Wen Zhiyong and Zhang Jian
  • 2006 Rainy Murmur with E Band
  • 2006 Hou Guan Yin with FM3
  • 2007 Song Ah Zhu Ah Ji with Indefinite
  • 2007 35651 with Indefinite
  • 2007 Zorro in China with Indefinite
  • 2008 Wu Yin Huan Yue with Indefinite and Inequable
  • 2008 798 with Indefinite and Inequable
  • 2010 Umbrella of Early Spring with Inequable
  • 2010 Autumn with Inequable
  • 2011 Vocal Music with E Band
  • 2012 Xiao Yue Dong Lu with Inequable
  • 2012 Di Yin Xia Shan with Inequable
  • 2012 2012 Beat with Inequable
  • 2014 Horoscope with Inequable
  • 2014 Shan He Diao with Inequable and Leah Dou
  • 2015 Shu He Yue Ji with Inequable
  • 2015 Zheng Yue San Qu with Inequable
  • 2016 Fondling Qin on Spring Equinox with Inequable
  • 2016 Jian Ting Jian with E Band
  • 2016 Shi Yin Jian with Inequable
  • 2017 Shan Shui Qing Yin Tu with Inequable
  • 2018 Farewell 2017 with Inequable
  • 2018 Ma Gu Fu with Inequable
  • 2018 He He Qiu Yue with Inequable

    With Faye Wong

  • 1994 Pledge
  • 1994 Please Myself
  • 1995 Di-Dar
  • 1996 Restless
  • 1998 ''Kid ''

    Compilations

  • 1993 Light of Hope on Rock Beijing
  • 1995 Lord on Chinese Fire II
  • 1997 Gracious Trill on Farewell Zhang Ju
  • 1999 The Grand Joss House on ''Chinese Fire III''

    Other albums

  • 1993 Dou Wei & Dreaming: guest featuring in the movie Beijing Bastards
  • 1999 OST: My Favourite Snowy Days
  • 2001 BOOTLEG: Lamp Whisper Demo
  • 2001 OST: Dazzling
  • 2001 OST: The Missing Gun
  • 2001 Musical Drama Story Between the Mirror and Flowers
  • 2001 As the composer for the TV documentary: Huang Xing, a prominent figure during Chinese Revolution of 1911
  • 2001 Dou Wei & Indefinite: master and improvisational performance for The Transparent Box
  • 2002 Rekindled Story Between the Mirror and Flowers
  • 2005 OST: You and Me
  • 2009 OST: Beyond the Window
  • 2011 OST: Itinerant Swordsman
  • 2012 Shang Xia
  • 2020 ''Post-Pandemic''