Back in January, Kiwese hung out with the boys from Shanren 山人 (mountain men) in Beijing to chat about ethnic music fusions, tourism development in Yunnan and their upcoming trip to New Zealand for WOMAD. Shanren are a band from the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau in the south-west of China, where the mountains are tall and majestic, theContinueContinue reading “High Times with Shanren”
Monthly Archives: March 2014
Chinese Rock Royalty: Tang Dynasty in New Zealand
Tang Dynasty, 唐朝乐队, are often hailed as China’s first heavy metal band and are a household name to many in a country of more than a billion people. Kiwese met up with these members of Chinese rock royalty while they were in Wellington. Tang Dynasty came to New Zealand to play at a variety of Chinese culturalContinueContinue reading “Chinese Rock Royalty: Tang Dynasty in New Zealand”
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