Over 28 Hours of Music
It has been awhile since we updated our playlist, so I thought I’d bless the dog days of summer with some new tracks. As the title of this blog entry says, we’ve got over 28 hours of music on our radio station. And we’re not playing everything we have.
We’ve got some upbeat folk music from Florence Yoo. a singer-songwriter who I believe currently lives in New York. Her CD, Indelible, was released in 2003. She does some singing, some spoken word, some other stuff on the CD. You should pick it up or listen to the tracks here on the radio. Florence had the good fortune to study with legendary vocal coach Judy Davis in Oakland, CA, as well as earning a BFA with High Distinction from the California College of Arts and Crafts and an MA from San Francisco State University. She’s performed all across the United States and is well-loved by fellow AA singer-songerwriters. Oh, and Yellow Rage loves her music too.
I also got my hands on some electronic-pop songs from the Hong-Kong born identical twins Ming & Ping. I would have to say that we pretty much have nothing on the radio station that sounds like them. When I first listened to their music on their Myspace, I said to myself, “These dudes sounds like Erasure.” Yes, they have a definite New Wave sound to their music. Ming & Ping recently released their third album, entitled Causeway Army, which you can get on iTunes. Here’s a brief description of some of the tracks on the album:
…”Dream of Pop” is an energetic primer about the Ming & Ping identity–that is an apparent collage of pop culture, assembled with Asian-American sensibilities… Tracks like “Code,” “Highrise,” and “Dark Days” are chilling, atmospheric additions… In these tracks, the twins’ alternating vocals cut through layers of synthesized music as if to reveal the flesh under a machine interior…
Last, but not least, we’ve got some new tracks from One Signata Nach, a local hip-hop artist. We’re already playing music that he gave to us before, but we’re happy to be getting new music. Check out this video he made about the struggles of brown people in the post-9/11 era.
Once again, I would like to thank all the artists who have given us their music to play. Keep on supporting independent Asian-American music and spoken word artists. We’ve got more artists on the way.
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