May 2012
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BEIJINGDAZE: 50 Years of British Rock Archives Currently in Beijing this Week
This one has been a bit under the radar, probably due to the high number of special shows we’ve had in Beijing the last few weeks. Still, plenty of time remains to go and check out this huge archive of British contributions to Rock n Roll from the last 50 years.
Here is an extract from the press kit:
PANGBIANR: Beijing’s Electro/Experimental Underground
SOURCE: http://pangbianr.com/electro-underground/
In a recent City Weekend blurb, Blake Stone-Banks — the magazine’s former nightlife editor — articulates a phenomenon that has been flitting around my brain for about a year now. That’s Beijing’s “electro underground,” and its aesthetic overlap with experimental music.
[Let me first state for the record that I acknowledge there are no genre labels less precise than “electronic music” and “experimental music.” For the sake of this article let’s say electronic music is anything that has a beat not produced by a live drummer and experimental music is… fuck it, that phrase is meaningless.]
In exploring the connection between electro and experimental, Blake name-checks the Shanshui crew (Sulumi, Dead J, ME:MO, et al) and identifies some younger heads on the scene, such as Noise & Noise:
This is the Circus
Duck Fight Goose
Duck Fight Goose - This is the Circus (Prog Pop/Psychedelic/Shanghai) from their 2011 Maybe Mars release ‘SPORTS’
killed in two times
battle cattle
Battle Cattle - Killed in Two Times (post-punk/shanghai/french)
from their 2011 record, recorded in beijing with yang haisong
紅棠之喜: 厚积薄发——记陈萨北京独奏会 →
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Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 17 in D Minor, Op. 31/2, “Tempest” 暴风雨
Liszt: Au lac de Wallenstadt 在瓦伦城湖上，选自旅游岁月第一集“瑞士游记”
Liszt: Ballade No. 2 in B Minor, S.171 R.16 第二叙事曲Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Major, Op. 53, “Waldstein” 黎明
Liszt: Les cloches de Geneve 日内瓦的钟声，选自旅游岁月第一集“瑞士游记”
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody in C Sharp Minor, S.224/12 R.106/12 匈牙利狂想曲12号这大约是时隔一年之后再一次步入陈萨的独奏会，去年的舒曼仍然历历在“耳”，今年又迎来了李斯特诞辰200年的特别节目。上下半场的节目颇为对称， 都是以贝多芬起头，李斯特结尾。我暗自揣度，之所以没有上半场贝多芬，下半场李斯特的原因大概是上台总需要一些压惊的技巧适中的曲子。
LIVEBEIJINGMUSIC.COM On The Scene: Xiaoping May 16th
I’ve been itching to check out the ‘new D-22’, XP in all its glory since the Sally Can’t Dance Festival, and though I wanted to hold off till one of their Sunday parties, which seem like a great addition to the weekly lineup, but I just couldn’t resist. So against the efforts of my friends to keep me away and get over to Temple (which I eventually did anyway), I trucked over to the XP (or XiaoPing) to check out electronic artist thruoutin and the one-man band Low Bow.
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