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Chinese Rocks: The Art of Chairman Ca
Maybe Mars, in conjunction with Far Out Distant Sounds, has put together an exhibition of Chairman Ca’s iconic poster art at Melbourne, Australia’s The Old Bar on February 21. The exhibition contains seventeen sets of signed and numbered prints spanning the past decade and will be followed with performances by White+, JP Shilo, and Xiao Zhong. Keep reading for more on the artist and his connection to the Chinese underground scene.
Interviews of the Chinese Underground
Gate to Otherside “Northern Memories (无)”
Introducing: Gate to Otherside, the latest trio of skinny rock’n’rollers to come crawling from the depths of Beijing’s yaogun underground. Fans of older C-indie torchbearers like Carsick Cars and The Gar will find a lot to like here, as will anyone who’s dug on Gate label-mates Chui Wan and Birdstriking — there’s a fair amount of member overlap and style-bleed among all of the above. Gate to Otherside has been gigging around the city’s numerous dives since late 2014 and is now preparing to put forward its debut album, Dragon Bus Terminal, as the latest strain of a particular “Beijing sound” that’s been developing over the last decade or so: one part jangling proto-punk, one part robotic Mancunian rhythmic propulsion, one part noise guitar freakout, and several parts burnout come-down.
Check out this new track from Re-TROS's first album in 8 years
Leading Chinese band Rebuilding the Rights of Statues (or Re-TROS if you're into the whole brevity thing) have fired the starting gun on the build up to their first new album in eight years with the release of the 12-minute epic 'AT MOSP HERE'. Although the band have been playing the track live since at least 2012, the release gives us the first recorded taste of what new album Before the Applause will sound like.
Songs We Love: Dear Eloise, 'Something Beautiful To Share'
There is a frenzied stasis to Dear Eloise, a billowing feedback that surfs languid, blissfully noisy shoegaze reminiscent of The Jesus And Mary Chain. The husband-and-wife duo has been making music for a decade in Beijing's underground scene, and Yang Haisong (the duo's "husband" half) has run the Maybe Mars label, a crucial document of rock music in China, for just as long. For the Chinese New Year, Dear Eloise offers a video for "Something Beautiful To Share" that delivers on the song's title.
SEARCHING FOR THE “CHINESE” IN CHINESE ROCK MUSIC
Chinese rock music – yaogun yinyue – has a history of roughly thirty years. When Chinese rock was first approached by Western scholars in the early 1990s, the research was almost solely concentrated on the political aspect of the rock scene. Some ten years ago, Chinese rock began to attract an ever growing number of Western scholars, reporters and documentary film makers, many of whom still sang in unison about the astonishment of the fact that such a thing as rock ‘n’ roll actually exists in communist China. Eventually, more varying melodies began to be heard, as many were willing to dig a bit deeper and climb a bit higher looking for the roots and branches of yaogun’s past and present.
LIVE BEIJING MUSIC 2016 Best Albums
Whoa…that’s a lot of albums. Probably less than I had anticipated but hey, the music industry is rightfully balancing itself out and seeing how the chips fall – I still haven’t heard that new ______ album even. Music works itself in unusual ways and this list definitely showcases that. So enjoy – the best albums of the year in no particular order (well perhaps not).
[2016]: THE 10 BEST RECORDS RELEASED IN CHINA
Counting down the absolute 10 best records released in the PRC in 2016 ever, for all time. There is no debate. Shush!
Welcome to Kiwese: an online publication about people in Aotearoa and China doing cool shit.
The youngest country in the world meets one of the world’s most ancient civilizations. A population of over a billion meets a population of almost five million. He Tangata, baby. People.
New Zealanders are well-known for being laid back. Or at least we know ourselves for being laid back. We feel more comfortable around a BBQ than in a board room, in jandals than in dress shoes, near the beach than near the office. We like making friends, spinning yarns and having people over for dinner. We are people-people.
Kiwese aims to reflect this attitude with the way we interact with China as well, to create meaningful, tangible human connections; rather than ties based merely on the potential for bettering the economy.
So enter the lounge, relax and enjoy the ride. Chur!
In Wuhan, Punk’s Not Dead
Wu Wei, the lead singer of China’s oldest surviving punk band, insists there’s nothing political about his music.
Another typical story: a mosh pit in a Moroccan restaurant in Beijing
Follow mr. sterile Assembly as they tour through China.
Pan Daijing mixes acid ragas, anarcho-jazz and gritty techno belters ahead of her appearance on the third Power Vacuum label compilation. More info and tracklist: http://www.factmag.com/2016/12/12/pan-daijing-fact-mix-581
[专栏] 入耳 In My Ears #9：晚霞子 White Shirt
White Shirt came together after Xie, the leader of Dalian post-rock band Wang Wen, played an improvised solo set at XP in Beijing in late 2014. Yang liked the set, and the two planned to meet in Dalian after Spring Festival to jam together. This album is the result, a spontaneous studio meeting between two of China’s busiest and best-known indie rock icons.
Maximum Rock ‘n’ Roll - All China Issue!
We’ve got a Chinese punk history primer, scene reports from Bejing, Wuhan, and Guangdong, an annotated discography of Chinese punk, and reprints of MRR features on Chinese punk straight from our archive.
What Happened After 1,001 Nights? by Yang Fan
What happens after 1,001 nights of no sleep? You run out of stories to tell yourself. Beijing’s Yang Fan offers her debut LP, a dozen nocturnes born in the tempest of a sleepless mind, smoothed over time like the face of a desert cliff. Twelve terse expressions of insomniatic id, a code of only codas. Fugue state music. Scheherazade told 1,001 tales to stay death, but Zhuangzi, who knew he was likely no more than a butterfly’s dream, rightly asked: “How do I know that loving life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating death I am not like a man who, having left home in his youth, has forgotten the way back?” So does Yang Fan present these bold death waltzes, a sonic statement skirting the line between consciousness and whatever else there might be beyond. An instrumental whirl, What Happened After 1,001 Nights? is a masterwork of the uncanny. Glockenspiel, harmonium, brass bell, the falling rain, a cat’s humanlike wail, ethereal solos on her guitar’s harmonic ghost notes: Yang Fan has soundtracked your subliminal anxieties, placing familiar sounds in an unreal scene as only the unconscious mind can. On the rare occasions when a discernible human voice does break, as on the album’s standout track, “Autumn In Your Town”, it speaks to lost love, an intangible longing. It breathes wormholes into the opium smoke-choked air filling, surrounding, hovering over the entire record. And it’s gone as quickly as it came, stealing back into the endless night, the enchanted dream, chasing the shadows of witches, princesses, court jesters, emperors, an entire invisible cast of Yang Fan’s ungraspable dream world. Get it in your head and it won’t come out.
Sad News: Lei Jun from Misandao is No Longer With Us
In 10 years of being a small part of the music scene in China, there have been few things more obvious and out of character in this emerging cultural landscape than the larger-than-life, bald-headed figure of Lei Jun.
Interview: Birdstriking
“This is the most important, vital, and worthwhile rock music being made by anyone anywhere right now,” says Brain Jonestown Massacre guitarist Ricki Maymi about Beijing band Birdstriking.
Maymi, a passionate devotee of Chinese independent music, aims to take the sound of a reinvigorated and optimistic Chinese youth to the world with his Far Out Distant Sounds online storeand website, which offers a window on the largely unexplored world of Eastern indie music.
Working together with Beijing-based Maybe Marsand eclectic Sydney label Tenzenmen, Maymi has helped introduce bands such as Carsick Cars,Chui Wan, and Birdstriking to the world, taking Birdstriking with him on a U.K. tour with BJM and doing his best to get the word out about the exciting sound of New China.