Posts Tagged ‘Experimental’

The Polymorph Extra

August 4th, 2011 by

Refresh your ears, warm up your thoughts, take an excursion with The Polymorph Extra

Free your Mind and your Ass will Follow

May 21st, 2009 by

We have been saying for some weeks now that the music scene in Shanghai is pretty hectic! Because we are only ducks and not octopuses, we occasionally have to ask for help, and Leo from Free the Wax has lent us some of his free time with this one. Free the Robots will play this Saturday at YuYinTang, and we wanted to tell you what kind of robots they are freeing, and about the music they will play for us; so we made an exception from our rules (sorry boss) and asked Leo to do the interview for us himself. And, yes, be careful, Free the Robots are freeing some wax on Saturday at YuYinTang. (!)

Noise Doesn’t Have To Be Annoying

February 25th, 2009 by

Since the first RESO (Reconstruct the Experimental Soundscapes of Ourselves) concert in April of last year, this collective has managed to bring in a number of experimental artists from around China and the globe to educate the relatively naive ears of Shanghai denizens on non-conventional music. The most recent gathering was at YuYinTang on Sunday night and it opened with Montreal-based Dirty Beaches, a lo-fi ‘call-it-pop’ project of Alex Zhang Hungtai.

Mars Volta’s Omar Rodriguez: Old Money

February 25th, 2009 by

On January the 26th Omar Rodriguez Lopez (guitarist, producer, and songwriter for Mars Volta) released his solo album Old Money. This album of guitars, constructions, and deconstructions is powerful and awakening, and at the same time dreamy. Old Money could be read as the intellectual font of sounds feeding Mars Volta and the already disappeared [...]