From her roots in the Shanghai jazz scene, Voision Xi constantly seeks to expand her musical horizons. The singer, songwriter and producer crosses genres with gleeful abandon on her solo albums Lost for Words and Queen and Elf—jazz improvisation shares space with the intricate architecture of chamber music, while ambient loops underpin spoken poetry. Xi’s long-term collaborators include musicians from her jazz combo Little Happiness Group, which released a 2018 EP with renditions of standards by names like Miles Davis and Nick Drake. And guest artists include a host of Chinese jazz greats, like drummer Yong-Heng Wu and guitarist Lawrence Ku on “缪斯” [“Muse”], a tribute to Brazilian jazz singer Joyce Moreno. On the opposite end of the spectrum are Loops in Her Way, a pair of ambient EPs created with minimal collaboration that tell wholly personal musical stories. The experience of those experimental efforts feed into later work like “Crystalline Improv”, a semi-impromptu duet between Xi on vocals and OP-1 and Wang Chenhuai on a Music Easel.