I wanted to chase the romance of listening — that moment when you stop in the rain and actually hear it. The Hakka tulou architecture has these perfect circles that I've always seen as sound chambers, and marrying that to Asturian pastoral textures gave me the copper-and-indigo palette I was craving. The monsoon isn't melancholy here; it's generative, musical, something she's learned to cultivate. She's not sheltering from the rain — she's in conversation with it. — Lux