Migration complete… the bird has landed… I’ve been trying to come up with cool poetic ways to get things started on this Lidong album review to match the band’s music and lyrics but i find myself unable to. I’ve been hearing these songs for the most part of the last 2 years and I’ve seen [...]
Tags: CD Release 2012, Lidong
About a month ago, I had never heard of the Dong Minority 侗族大歌 nor did i have a clue about their musical proficiency, the uniqueness of their delivery or the imminent danger of extinction facing their folklore… Now, thank to a series of shows they did in Beijing over the past few weeks, it’s all [...]
Tags: Amy Tan, Dong Chorus, Minority Music in China, wu hongfei
I’ve been meaning to get this one out for a while but it’s been a bit hectic. I mean here I am in 2012 doing the write up for a gig from 2011. I would normally skip it altogether but we don’t get Muma & Third Party playing that often lately so here comes. I [...]
Tags: muma, Muma & Third Party
Well, BD was away in Australia last week, and I thought it wouldn’t be fair on Jurat to do this one by myself, so I’ve invited a good friend and long-time member of the Beijing music scene Jean-Sébastien Héry (aka Zhang Si’an) to step into Badr’s shoes and take on the ‘He says’ side of [...]
Tags: jurat, psychadelic rock, sans famille, uyghur music
something is brewing down south folks… I’m not sure what it is but there’s definitely some quality coming out of Shanghai that we don’t get to see in Beijing. Don’t get me wrong, we have “some” quality up here but when you look at the quantity, the ratio is pretty dismal. Shanghai is not blessed [...]
Tags: friend or foe, shanghai bands
Chinese Indie Music Lore goes something like this: Folks from Maybe Mars saw Low Wormwood perform live, they immediately started the Maybe Wood spin off label to sign them up and record their 2009 album, We Can’t Help Kissing Each Other. I’ll have to ask them about this at some point. Anyways, with the band [...]
Tags: low wormwood
I first heard the name Glow Curve in an article Wang Ge wrote about Raying Temple back in June. A soundcloud link at the bottom of the article had 5 songs from different groups that play at the music space out in Tongzhou – including Glow Curve, who are currently in residency there. I have [...]
Tags: Glow Curve, Raying Temple
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