artists we’ve loved working with 愉快地合作过艺人
3 quiet men - trippy dubby jazz from italia Eliane Amherd - latin rhythms meets jazz meets pop christoph pepe auer group and living room - two ensembles for the price of one: the former, more straight-up jazz, the latter, the rare and amazing combination of bass clarinet and hang bandapart - operating between, among, around and atop spacey post-rock and free jazz bonk - greasy rock and roll – in a good way david braid - award-winning toronto-based jazz pianist
francois bourassa - award-winning quebecois jazz pianist
busdriver - wacky and skilled alt-rap
by divine right – much-loved toronto indie rockers
lache cercel and the roma swing ensemble - the spirit of django lives on in these gypsy jazzers
the crystal method - big beat electro progenitors
elden: the fire, a tribute to norwegian poet olav h. hauge featuring: unni lovlid, becaye aw and rolf erik nystrom mixing jazz improv, norwegian and pan-african folk and poetry
excess luggage - rare jazz combo (organ-piano-drums) brings heavy gear and music
emil de waal – denmark’s top percussive export
hanggai 杭盖 - beijing-based mongolian folk act taking on the world
royal hartigan - drummer, educator, student, and so much more
hei hauge: a tribute to norwegian poet olav h. hauge featuring: Juni Dahr and friends: poetry meets jazz and theatre
sam hooper - high-energy blues-rocker
ibrahim electric - funk, rock, afrobeat, jazz and then some for brain and booty
sofia jannok - arctic ethnic singing style, yoik, meets warmer-clime jazz
john jorgenson - he portrayed django reinhardt in Head in the Clouds, so to call him a gypsy jazz artist is an understatement
steve koven – canadian jazzer extraordinaire
legopulver - norwegian contemporary jazz trio
mi22 - 18-piece funk orchestra that fills the stage and the dance floor
moses hazy - classic rockin’ good times from the north of finland
mais uma - brasilian jazz made in denmark
manomanouche – gypsy music meets improvisational jazz
mayflies – stavanger-based rockers
motif – highly-acclaimed and internationally-renowned jazz combo
charlie musselwhite – legendary blues harmonica player
q – five-piece italian jazz combo
yannick rieu – canadian saxophonist extraordinnaire
rock hard power spray – denmark’s baddest x-rated garage rockers
jeanne rochette - parisian, now montreal-based, chanteuse
sahara hotnights - swedish all-girl garage-pop outfit
something to burn - alt-rock from la
the sparrow quartet: abigail washburn, ben sollee, casey driessen and bela fleck comprise perhaps the world’s greatest sino-american folk crossover supergroup
shuffle demons – crazy canuck jazzers
snake and jet’s amazing bullit band - danish duo mixing electro, rock and gooooood times
mark solborg - danish jazz-guitarist extraordinnaire
subs - beijing garage-punk superpowers. read the on-the-road blog from their 2006 adventure here
superhoney – boston-based funksters
ivan valentini’s slanting quartet – italy’s formost saxophonist
beijing happenings
city weekend - bi-monthly english mag and extensive web resources
elvita - extensive, if chinese, events info for arts in all forms
the beijinger – leading beijing english monthly; get your listings/events info on, here, too
time out - international events guide in bj, and, finally, online
china music (english)
beijing pop festival - the big one, since 2006
chaile.org – portland-based, peking-focused essential music info resource
beijing beat - via an irish indie music site, a column on BJ’s music scene
denmarkinchina.com – the danish are coming, musically; stay tuned here
lawrence ku – shanghai-based jazz guitarist doing amazing things
pissing on the bamboo curtain - informative, if cranky, somewhat-regular podcast on the chinese music scene by people who know, via beijing/cali record label tag team records
rockinchina – detailed site (thesis-writers rejoice!) run by zee germans; they have a wiki, too
shanghaijazzscene – what’s going down on shanghai’s vibrant scene
sonicbids – online resource for artists, promoters, agents and more
sounds like suomi - the fins are coming (and have already come); keep abreast of where they’re at.
tag team records - home of RandomK(e) and other great beijing bands not related to ygtwo
china music (not so much english)
beijing jazz fest - since 2007, jazz from around the world
indie china - in and out of china, they’ve got the scoop, and the occasional gig (ie: Magyar Posse)
midi festival – annual, mostly, rock fest
midi school – the school that made it possible
mogo - an amazing collection of live video of chinese shows
nine gates jazz fest - small, if persistent, local-meets-int’l jazz fest
no+ch - nordic + chinese electro fest
purple buzz - beijing-based guitar workshop and service providers
rocklive.cn – (chinese) gig info
rockyear.com - (chinese) gigs, chats, reviews; china and beyond
tangsuan.cn - online (chinese) radio show
yan jun – blog of china’s leading critic, poet, musician, promoter and the man behind subjam, kwanyin and much, much more
yaogun.com – extensive, if japanese, database of Chinese rock
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from parts west (and east) of china
black mountain - black sabbath-ish music by indie rockers, or indie rock done by black sabbath? either way, they blow minds.
callisto - probably should say something about the dreary doom-inducing finnish landscape, but, instead, let the music say it
cmon – hard-chargin’ canadian rockers
constantines - more heavy duty canuck rock
for a minor reflection - instrumental music you just know was inspired by their icelandic home
harris eisenstadt – l.a.-based perussive master
holy fuck – rave music for indie hipsters; the name says it all
ibrahim electric - danish jazz-surf-rock
magyar posse - more music for finnish lanscapes
northern valentine - philly-based soundscapers
npr – cuz music is good, but so is talking
pasborg’s odessa 5 - horn orchestra --- and a (bad-ass) drummer
rheostatics - canada’s indie kings
rock hard power spray - rock that’ll make your pants hang low
rock plaza central - think the name’s great? check the folkified jazzy rock craziness
spejderRobot - dub/chill/etc electro a-la djs shadow/spooky
wintersleep - east coast canuck rock; heavy, yet light, too
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from parts in and around china
48v - mind-blowing ambient sounds from... changsha, hunan
black cat bone – beijing-based bad-ass rockin blooze crew (NOTE: unabashed self-promotion at work here)
break sound - radiohead-esque rockers whose name should be shards of sound (声音碎片)
caffe-in – beijing-based sino-japanese pop-punksters who have almost too much fun
the contractors - mess with ‘em and they’ll powerpoint your ass and spit hi-end baijiu on your carcass and light you up with 888 ciggies
hanggai – beijing-based mongolian folksters
hedgehog - indie-pop trio that’s not quite as cute as their namesake --- in a good way
lonely china day - post/soundscapey rock a-la mogwai/sigur ros
musclesnog - shanghai noise-rockers
pk14 - insert something here about time magazine’s asian bands to watch... or that these post-punks had been rocking hard before time noticed
randomk(e) - beijing rock of many stripes: angst/kraut/indie/shoegaze/etc (NOTE: unabashed self-promotion is here, too, at work; but if we can push our own stuff, what’re we doing doing it?)
red hand - jazzers who don’t use no real book
reflector – the hardest-working – and tightest, and best – skate-punk band in china
ruins (china) – beijing-based mind-blowing space rockers
subs – beijing’s best screaming garage punk act, who have taken many nordic nations by storm; also here
wang wen - amazing instrumental rock a-la explosions in the sky, but from dalian
china
danwei – people who know about chinese media, marketing, urban life and more learned about it from danwei
immersion guides – they write about all the stuff you’ll want to know
sexy beijing – beijing, sexy? this (internet) tv show looks around to see
shanghaiist – the scoop dished on the paris of the east
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dancing toasters - goodness by beijing-based artists-and-then-some, rania ho
mcsweeneys – great writing by great people
popmatters – home of campbell’s under-updated column, ‘foreign devil’
roy kesey - formerly-bj-based writer of many things, almost all of which will blow your mind
wholphin - half-dolphin, half-whale, all-dvd-zine with great video