Falun Dafuq?

I have been agonizing over whether or not to write about Shen Yun. Now, a month on, here is the result of said agony. I attended the second of two shows back in April at the St James with my friend Rosa, out of strong curiosity and desire for $60 worth of entertainment. The postersContinueContinue reading “Falun Dafuq?”

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”