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Artist: Baishui
Album: Einstein and Einstein
baishui.bandcamp.com/album/einstein-and-einstein
Here’s something a bit different for you - a film
soundtrack from Sichuan composer Baishui, who
performed at SXSW earlier this year with his band
who go by the same name. It’s the soundtrack to
Einstein and Einstein, a movie by Cao Baoping
documenting a thirteen year old girl’s relationship
with her estranged father. It’s an ethereal synthand-piano affair in the Clint Mansell style of
soundtrack writing that engages the listener but
never pushes too many boundaries. His band stuff
is worth checking out as well. There’s also the
bonus that now here’s another Chinese composer
you can name that isn’t Tan Dun.
Artist: Low Bow
Track: I am a.m.
Album: Burn
lowbow.bandcamp.com/track/i-am-a-m
This track is more for a primer for a forthcoming
release from Beijing lo-fi two piece Low Bow,
and from the sounds of it, this record is their
most successful attempt so far at capturing their
explosive live sound - more so than their live
albums, arguably. Here’s a heads-up; if you’re
into your DIY to watch out for Kitchen Table
Records. It’s set up by the guys behind Low Bow,
and their other project, the noise-y, drone-gaze-y
Cloud Choir. Just between these two bands the
releases have been stacking up, and by the looks
of it they’re ready to add Shanghai two-piece The
Other to the stable as well.
Band: The Fuzz
Track: ?????? (Running Horse)
Album: ?????? (Running Horse)
site.douban.com/fuzz/
The title track from Xi’an rockers The Fuzz could
be straight off Pulp’s Different Class, if Jarvis
Cocker had learned Chinese. The synths, the
sardonic delivery, the rousing choruses - all present
and correct, sir. But screw it, if I’m going to have
nineties nostalgia, it might as well be the good
bits, and the Fuzz know what they’re doing.
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