32 hours of music and counting…
Today, I’m going to add a few more artists to our play list. It has been awhile since I did an update. I suppose life in the real world has taken over life in the cyberworld.
The radio station has been up and running for about 6 months now and I’m pleased at what we have achieved so far. I still have bigger dreams for the station. I’d like to see our random and totally eclectic playlist morph into well-contained programs. We’d have a hip hop show. A singer/songwriter folk show. And maybe even a spoken word show. As of now, I do not think we have enough artists to do such a thing. And we don’t have enough resources to obtain software to allow us to use such a format, but I can dream right? What would be very exciting is if we were able to have live DJs take requests and play your favorite music. It might take awhile before we get there, but I’m never going to stop dreaming. We should always try to dream big.
New on BPR this week are Cynthia Lin, Dawen Wang, Koba, and Melissa Li.
Cynthia Lin has been on our radar for months. I’ve been exchanging electronic correspondence with her for months. And she’s been so kind. She recently released a new CD entitled “Doppelgänger.” According to Wikipedia, a doppelgänger is the ghostly double of a living person. That sounds kind of eerie. I wonder if Cynthia is making a comment about how people present different identities to the world depending on the people they are with. My two favorite songs on the album are Water Torture and the Cyndi Lauper cover Time After Time. It’s a pretty good EP. You should pick it up. We’re also playing tracks from her first EP, “Blue and Borderlined.”
Dawen Wang was first brought to my attention by Angry Asian Man. In May 2007, Dawen was a finalist in an online radio music contest sponsored by Starbucks and WXRT Radio in Chicago. He describes his music as R&B / Neo-Soul. Apparently, I heard he was one of the three winners for the contest! We’re lucky to be able to play his music on the station.
Koba is a close friend of Boston Progress. He has featured at an East Meets Words Open Mic, back when the open mic was attended by less than 10 people; about 30+ people attended that open mic. These days, the open mic is still pretty well-attended. We usually have 25 to 40 people in attendance?
Melissa Li is also a close friend of the Boston Progress Arts Collective. She featured at the August East Meets Words Open Mic, did an interview for Boston Progress Radio, and showed me how to make my own music with GarageBand. Her music is honest and the themes are based largely on her own experiences in life.
Also, tune in for the new station identification. Thanks go out to Proper Speaks for mixing it up for us for radio play.
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yo, koba’s feature had like 30+ people at it.
peace from the motherland. how can there only have been three new posts since i’ve been gone?
Life has been crazy here. But I’ve got Kit’s interview coming soon.
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