Inkfall Clouds
Last updated 2026-09-07
Inkfall Clouds is a soundtrack from the album The Shimmering Voyage Vol. 6.
Soundtrack Usage
Open-World Locations
Media
Production Credits
| Position | Staff[1] |
|---|---|
| Composer | Caroline Luo (罗静怡) |
| Arranger | Caroline Luo (罗静怡) |
| Music Copyist | Qianshuo Zhou (周千朔) |
| Orchestra | Budapest Scoring Orchestra |
| Xiao | Jiannan Gu (顾剑楠) |
| Guzheng | Yijing Shen (申依静) |
| Pipa | Ying Sun (孙莹) |
| Recording Studio | Budapest Scoring, SKY FIRE STUDIO (九紫天诚录音棚), Largo Studio |
| Recording Engineer | Viktor Szabó, Hao Huang (黄浩), Tam (谭云杰) |
| Mixing Engineer | Anzol (鸦雀有声) |
| Mastering Engineer | Zach Huang (黄巍) |
| Production | HOYO-MiX |
Trivia
- The Chinese name of the soundtrack may be a reference to the poem Seeing Off My Younger Cousin Zongyi (Chinese: 別舍弟宗一) by Liu Zongyuan:
- 零落残魂倍黯然,双垂别泪越江边。
一身去国六千里,万死投荒十二年。
桂岭瘴来云似墨,洞庭春尽水如天。
欲知此后相思梦,长在荆门郢树烟。
Wandering in distraction, our bereft souls double their gloom, we both shed tears of parting at the riverbank.
A whole lifetime away from home six thousand miles, dying a thousand deaths in the wilderness twelve years.
At Guiling when the miasma comes, the clouds look like ink; at the Grotto Court, when spring ends the water resembles the sky.
If you want to know where from now on my dreams of longing will take me, it'll always be to Jingmen and Ying among the misty trees.[2]
- The phrase 洞庭春尽水如天 is also referenced in the Chinese title of Into the Yonder and Water (Chinese: 春尽水如天).
- 零落残魂倍黯然,双垂别泪越江边。
Other Languages
| Language | Official Name | Literal Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| English | Inkfall Clouds | — |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 晚来云似墨 Wǎnlái Yún Sì Mò | Evening Clouds Like Ink |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 晚來雲似墨 Wǎnlái Yún Sì Mò | |
| Japanese | 墨降る雲 Sumi Furu Kumo[!] | Clouds of Falling Ink |
References
- ↑ NetEase Cloud Music: 晚来云似墨 Inkfall Clouds
- ↑ Translation by Hans H. Frankel, in The Flowering Plum and the Palace Lady: Interpretations of Chinese Poetry, p. 149.