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B6 + Antidote + “Post Haze”

November 15th, 2008 by

Lou Nanli, 樓南立, is B6: musician, producer, graphic designer; an artist, in summary. His newest album, Post Haze, will be released tonight at The Shelter. Post Haze was also produced by B6, except for one track: “Red Sky”, a remix of a track by Shanghai duo John & Kaka. Post Haze is being released under [...]

Hermitud in The Shelter

October 9th, 2008 by

It sounded like it should mean something, I searched around and I found this:  hermitude: a combination of the words ‘hermit’, and, ‘attitude’ indicating the suggestion of the ‘hermetic vas’ spoken of by Jung. In Jungian terminology, the Hermit is the archetypal “Wise Old Man”. The hermit, being “the primitive man who trusts the unconscious” [...]

The Shanghai Jazz Festival is Basically Here

September 18th, 2008 by

Tonight is the big opening, so get ready. We’ve got the line-up in our live dates page now, so you can check out who’s playing when. It’s been organized by the people at JZ club, and will feature many of their bands, as well as other local acts, and national and international stars. Like many [...]

Pink Floyd’s piano Richard Wright goes back to the great gig

September 16th, 2008 by

[youtube width="425" height="355"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sein6WnbY0[/youtube] Richard Wright founding member of Pink Floyd; piano, organ, keyboard player and composer, died yesterday, being 65 years old. Wright was part of Pink Floyd since the beginning, when their name was Sigma 6, together with Syd Barrett, Roger Waters and David Gilmour, until 1980 when he left the band to come [...]

Live Rock Magic; how to be in the joy of CONTROL.

September 12th, 2008 by

Saturday, September 13th, 8.30pm. Shanghai will be entering the red zone of the thermometers and the epicenter is going to be Dream Factory’s stage. Not far away from the harmonic Jing An Temple and the peaceful Jade Buddha Temple, the loudness and the chaos will explode in pleasant agreement with our bodies; we all will [...]

Finally!

September 2nd, 2008 by

It took us sometime to recover after one month of unquiet silence; the Olympics were only two weeks, but the sound effect lasted one month. While some people were breaking records on sports and beer drinking, here at Layabozi we were having a little rest under the shadow during summer days, we didn’t have the [...]

Live Dates!

July 25th, 2008 by

Perhaps some of you have noticed that our live dates calendar has been pretty…bare. Not any more! There’s a whole bunch of stuff going on this weekend, and if you go to the live dates page (or just look at the list on the right of the home page) you can click on the event [...]

Blues of the 60s

July 14th, 2008 by

Assuming my calculations are correct, I have about forty-eight hours left to be in my fifties, and despite the fact that my lieu de naissance and Nevada are a time zone apart, the fact that Nevada indulges in Daylight Savings Time while Arizona doesn’t, means that the fateful time (around 5:00 PM, the beginning of [...]