Take some yogurt, cheap pantyhose, balloons and plum wine. Add to a room with three girls from Kunming and three girls from New Zealand. Shake and serve cold. When the only seemingly logical escape from your anxiety is to take a train 1000km in the opposite direction, you know it’s dark. That’s what IContinueContinue reading “South Acid Mimi and Lady Lazer Light Unleash “NUNUDUGU” Music Video”
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Self-organised, self-aware, self-destructive, this is XI’ER.
朋友们好 早在五月，我收到朋友一笑的微信说她带着“喜儿”在成都和重庆演出的想法。“喜儿”是三位女巫般的姑娘的合成器电子乐队南方酸性咪咪的朋克根源乐队。 What up fam Back in May, I got a message from my friend Yixiao about coming to play in Chengdu and Chongqing with XI’ER, the predecessor punk band to electronic witch-synth trio South Acid MiMi. When I first met Yixiao, Shishi and Weilin in 2015, I’d already been indoctrinated into the cult of South Acid Mimi,ContinueContinue reading “Self-organised, self-aware, self-destructive, this is XI’ER.”
Orchestra of Spheres in China: EP. 4 KUNMING
Pineapple, lemon, coriander, chilli – WHAT UP KUNMING. The southern leg of the tour begins, as we fly from Chongqing to Kunming, the capital of Yunnan. Big ups to South Acid MiMi Dance Team, stay tuned for the NUNUDUGU video with Lady Lazer Light!!
Lady Lazer Light Casts A Spell Over China: Interview with Erica Sklenars
Wellington! 惠灵顿！ Erica Sklenars a.k.a. Lady Lazer Light is in the capital this week for two talks about her art residency in Beijing and touring with Orchestra of Spheres around China. Kiwese caught up with her ahead of tonight’s first talk! The last Lady Lazer Light show I saw before moving back to China was in collaboration with long time pals OrchestraContinueContinue reading “Lady Lazer Light Casts A Spell Over China: Interview with Erica Sklenars”
Favourite Shows 2015
What makes a ‘good show’? The artist? The venue? The crowd? Here is a list of ten shows in chronological order that left an impression on Kiwese this year. “Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.” – Frank Zappa To me, live music is a symbiotic relationshipContinueContinue reading “Favourite Shows 2015”
Kiwese Presents… Orchestra of Spheres China Tour 2015
Wellington’s favourite intergalactic dance freaks Orchestra of Spheres are coming for a nine-date tour of China. Aotearoa’s Queen of buzzy visuals Lady Lazer Light is coming, too. This is not a drill! I repeat, THIS IS NOT A DRILL!! https://youtu.be/bR4uJtCQrKQ trippy /ˈtrɪpɪ/ adjective -pier, -piest (informal) suggestive of or resembling the effect produced by a hallucinogenic drug Orchestra of Spheres are one of the mostContinueContinue reading “Kiwese Presents… Orchestra of Spheres China Tour 2015”
One night at MAO Livehouse Kunming
Kunming. The south-western provincial capital of Yunnan, China’s very own Shangri-La of tourism. Images that spring to mind are probably not whiskey-swigging, tattoo-covered electro-pop divas. Having far exceeded one’s tolerance levels for crap pop music and ‘Xiao Ping Guo,’ Kiwese was excited to check out local bands Strange Days and South Acid MiMi Dance Team at the latest addition to the MAO Livehouse empire. Generally considered as aContinueContinue reading “One night at MAO Livehouse Kunming”
High Times with Shanren
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”
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