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DATE
20 MAR 2010, SAT
TIME
9.30pm till late
(180mins, free n easy)
(180mins, free n easy)
VENUE
Theatre Studio
PRICE
$30*
$38* (for ticket purchased on day of performance) (* With one complimentary drink. All patrons must be above 18 years old)
Exclusive savings for Mosaic Friends and other packages available at www.mosaicmusicfestival.com.
$38* (for ticket purchased on day of performance) (* With one complimentary drink. All patrons must be above 18 years old)
Exclusive savings for Mosaic Friends and other packages available at www.mosaicmusicfestival.com.
SYNOPSIS
Make time for music made in Asia! The hottest young artists in their scenes, Ras Muhamad, Kou Chou Ching (拷秋勤) and Apartmentkhunpa bring you Indonesian dancehall-reggae, Taiwanese hip-hop and Thai funk-rock with sounds, styles and opinions all their own… performed against a visual backdrop of dark, freaky animation by Taiwan-born, Vienna-based VJ and cartoonist VJ Azz, named one of Austria’s top three VJs in 2004.
The Indonesian people have themselves a new, young spokesman in Indonesian-born, US-raised Ras Muhamad whose infectious, idealistic dancehall-reggae songs in English and Bahasa Indonesia about corruption, social injustice, political leadership and humanity have made him Rolling Stone Magazine Indonesia’s 2008 “Best New Reggae Artist”.
There’s no tacky kungfu theme here but a heart-and-guts tribute to Taiwan when gets five-man crew Kou Chou Ching (拷秋勤) (who’ve just won the “Best Music Group” and “Best Remix Song” at Tennessee, USA’s Just Plain Folks Music Awards) blends the rhythms, sampling, production values, spoken word and street edge of hip-hop with the folk-acoustic sound of instruments like the Chinese suona and Chinese traditional music and Taiwanese traditional and folk melodic refrains to give audiences all-original Taiwanese hip-hop with rapping in Mandarin, Hakka and Hokkien.
There’s no tacky kungfu theme here but a heart-and-guts tribute to Taiwan when gets five-man crew Kou Chou Ching (拷秋勤) (who’ve just won the “Best Music Group” and “Best Remix Song” at Tennessee, USA’s Just Plain Folks Music Awards) blends the rhythms, sampling, production values, spoken word and street edge of hip-hop with the folk-acoustic sound of instruments like the Chinese suona and Chinese traditional music and Taiwanese traditional and folk melodic refrains to give audiences all-original Taiwanese hip-hop with rapping in Mandarin, Hakka and Hokkien.
They sing about everything from politics to fashion and mythology to pop culture, but it matters little if you don’t understand a word they say for the music of Bangkok-based rock band Apartmentkhunpa – a little old-school 70s funk, a little hard rock, a little bit of blues and sometimes a little hip-hop – grabs audiences anyway with its raw energy and hard-driving sound.
