Impressions: Cast of Thousands
We hope this will be the start of a new series of podcast that will share our impressions of API* music and allow you to form your own by sharing with you clips of music by API* artists!
Before I start telling you about this podcast’s group Cast of Thousands, let me just mention a little about how this podcast got started…
Even before Eugene handed me a portable HD with gigabytes of Asian American music from BPR’s library of songs to review and podcast, I was psyched. I had been craving more Asian American tunage since leaving the Bay Area, where there was a stupendous exuberance of API* music. So just hearing about, then looking at the line-up on the BPRLive server was mind-blowing. Then, after getting the HD from Eugene, I loaded track after track on to my iPod Shuffle, and my mind has ever since been altered in stunning, irrevocable ways…
Cast of Thousands was a group I recognized immediately in the BPR collection, thanks to Mango Mic, a lively Bay Area Asian American open mic hosted by Peter of Tensegrity Nine that totally opened my mind and heart to the Asian American arts scenes. Although the Cast of Thousands album This is Where I Confess has already been excellently reviewed by Van, I couldn’t help but want to share my enthusiasm about Cast of Thousands as well and cover some of the softer sounds of this album too. That’s all I’ll say here so as not to be too redundant with the comments made in this podcast.
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