Dirty Beaches , Forests , Parallel Pyres , Modularzhi

Read the GigGuide.tw interview with Alex Zhang Hungtai / Dirty Beaches here

Dirty Beaches
Alex Zhang Hungtai (b. September 4, 1980, Taipei), known by his stage name Dirty Beaches, is a Taiwanese-born Canadian musician based in Montreal, Quebec.
Dirty Beaches released a number of EPs and instrumental-focused albums on cassette-only labels, before releasing the full-length Badlands in March 2011.[1] Badlands was subsequently nominated as a long listed nominee for the 2011 Polaris Music Prize.[2] Dirty Beaches has also released singles including "True Blue"/"Sweet 17," "Lord Knows Best" and "Lone Runner," as well as videos, many of them directed by Zhang himself. Zhang has also recorded several original film soundtracks, such as for the documentary Water Park, by Evan Prosofsky.

Dirty Beaches began as a one-man band, sometimes employing sampling, inspired by Zhang's longtime love of hip hop. In addition to his own years moving between countries and on the road touring, films are one of Zhang's influences, particularly those by Wong Kar-wai. Zhang said Wong's movies are "usually about the passage of time, and how in relation it distorts your relationship with everything else in life. The central Dirty Beaches character is a product of those experiences. Of someone traveling long distances in search of something, in exile, misplaced, with no home to return to."[3] Zhang has lived in Taipei, Queens, Etobicoke, Honolulu, San Francisco, Shanghai, Vancouver and Montreal, among other cities.

Dirty Beaches has released work on record labels throughout the world since his first album Old Blood came out on Montreal's Fixture Records in 2007. Dirty Beaches has recorded and toured with musicians such as Dum Dum Girls, U.S. Girls, Ela Orleans and Xiu Xiu. In 2011, Zhang was able to leave a kitchen job to play music full time. First touring solo, he then put together a live band with sax player Francesco De Gallo and drummer Jesse Locke. On tour, Dirty Beaches moved away from the sample-based rock n roll of Badlands to embrace a more improvised sound. In 2012, guitarist Shub Roy and electronic musician Bernardino Femminielli joined Dirty Beaches live.

In late 2012 Dirty Beaches recorded two new albums, one vocal and one entirely instrumental. Drifters/Love is the Devil will be released in May 2013. North American label Zoo Music will issue the album as a double LP and a single CD. Dirty Beaches will tour Europe and North America later in 2013. In early 2013 Dirty Beaches toured the Asia Pacific region for the first time.

http://dirtybeaches.bandcamp.com/

Forests
Hailing from Taiwan: the land where cigarettes, outdoor drinking, and 2-wheeled transportation is still common, Forests have been making fuzzy and fast music for you. Yes, I do mean you. Music so perfect for surf and/or turf that you need to wear boots with your swim trunks like Grandpa intended. After road testing their material for the past few months, it is time for them to come to your earholes. Embrace them and make them a part of your life. Rock as hard as you want, but be certain to bring another pair of socks.

http://foresting.bandcamp.com/

Parallel Pyres

Parallel Pyres is the solo project of Joshua Frank, one half of warped blues brother duo Hot & Cold and a live collaborator with Dirty Beaches.

Rusty canned drums and scorched synth phazes give way to smog-laden basslines and melodic warbled drone. Beijing by way of Montreal, Taipei and New York. Transnational blues.

http://parallelpyres.bandcamp.com/

Modularzhi

受 Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, Ash Ra Temple 等樂隊影響，進而發現合成器的美好。
在一個偶然的機會下踏入了 Modular synth 的世界，從此長年躲在臥室裡接線。嘴巴上說喜愛類比聲響，但其實用了大量的數位離散電路，不斷的將線路從 VCO 接到 VCA，也只是想將合成的聲音組織成一段好聽的旋律。

https://soundcloud.com/koobraelc

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