#曹家瑋 Marcus Tsao

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Vast & Hazy with a killer song, and an elusive red apple!

詞 Lyricist | 顏靜萱 Ka Ka Yen 曲 Composer | 林易祺 Yi Chi Lin

編曲 Arrangement | 林易祺 Yi Chi Lin 木吉他 Acoustic Guitar | 林易祺 Yi Chi Lin 電吉他Electric Guitar | 林易祺 Yi Chi Lin 電貝斯Electric Bass | 曹家瑋 Marcus Tsao 爵士鼓 Drums | 潘維瀚 Wei Han Pan 和聲編寫 Chorus Arrangement | 田曉梅 Brandy Tien 和聲 Chorus | 田曉梅 Brandy Tien、董兆怡 Aida Tung、林易祺 Yi Chi Lin

MV by  鳥兒映像製作- Birdy Production, starring 張耀仁 Yao.  Full video redits HERE

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Let’s check out Midi 楊士弘  (aka 楊士弘 Midi Yang)  =D

This song is so cool, where’d this guy come from?! 

According to StreetVoice and Weibo, he is a singer-songwriter from Tainan. This song is on his first solo album, 壞米仔 Bad Midi.  (He has a previous 3-song ep from 2018, 原來你是這種人 Who You Really Are.)  

You can hear both releases at YT. I just listened to the earlier ep at StreetVoice, and the arrangements are more acoustic than the song above. I haven’t yet heard anything else from the new album.

Music/Lyrics: 楊士弘 Producer/Harmony Writing: Sandee Chan 陳珊妮 Arrangement/Guitar: 徐平 aka 徐皮 Lazybody (死未來 The Dead Future) Drums: 紀冠宇 Bass: 曹瑋 Marcus Tsao (YELLOW) Backing Vocals: Sandee & Midi Yang Full credits back at YT.

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In the 13th annual Freshmusic 音樂誌 awards results, I saw this combination of YELLOW and 范曉萱 Mavis Fan, the song and MV have a fun old time jazzy vibe. Just a wonderful effort by all involved!   =D

YELLOW are: 黃宣 Hsuan Huang-composer/Vocal, 小陳 陳彥丞 Devlin Chen (陳彥丞 Devlin Chen)-Drums, 林庭鈺 (Tim TingYu Lin)-Gtr, 吳至傑 (CJ Wu)-Keys, 曹瑋 Marcus Tsao (曹家瑋)-bass.  

Music: 黃宣YELLOW Lyrics: 姚小民 Yao Xiao-min (Wonfu 旺福), 黃宣YELLOW Producer: 余佳倫 Chia-Lun Yue, 黃宣YELLOW Production Coordinator: 李漢群 Hans Lee Arrangement: 黃宣YELLOW Lead Vocals: 黃宣YELLOW, 范曉萱 Mavis Fan Backing Vocals: 黃宣YELLOW, 范曉萱 Mavis Fan Guitars: 林庭鈺 Tim Lin, 黃宣YELLOW Bass: 曹家瑋 Marcus Tsao Keyboards: 吳至傑 CJ Wu Drums: 陳彥丞 Devlin Chen Violin: 黃宣YELLOW

Full a/v credits back at YT.

More YELLOW links: Spotify,  Instagram, YouTube,  StreetVoice

Mavis Fan 范曉萱 & 100%,  Vegetarian Fish

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Perfect way to begin a Sunday!  Something jazzy & mellow from the new 3-song ep 太安靜 (Too Quiet) by 阿丹 Dan Hsueh (薛詒丹)  =D

Song & Lyrics: 薛詒丹 Dan Hsueh

Arrangement: 小畢 Wico Weng (翁光煒)-Gtr, 曹瑋 Marcus Tsao (曹家瑋)-Bass, 郭俊麟 Chun-lin Kuo, 小陳 陳彥丞 Devlin Chen-Drums, Dan Hsueh-Vocal

These guys do a lot of freelance playing/recording, and are in various ensembles around TW. Wico & Dan are a duo; Marcus & Devlin are both in the bands YELLOW and Rhythm Market.  Marcus & Wico have both backed up Elisa Lin 林依霖. Chun-lin & Wico were both members of SilkWood 絲木. Chun-lin is a support musician for 二本貓 UrbanCat (he’s playing on their new ep, check out the preview at YT!) Dan is in the a cappella group Moment Singers.

Coming up for Dan Hsueh on January 12th in Kaohsiung: 阿丹薛詒丹 太安靜 首張ep分享音樂會

I think I posted this last year, but it’s very short & sweet:

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Let’s check out another new artist; this is ‘rock singer-songwriter’ 陳央 YM  =D

She graduated from Berklee last fall, and this is a song from her 2018 ep She’s Blue Again. (KKBOX)  She came back to TW ready to rock - this riff is reminiscent of the opening riff of the first Black Sabbath album!  

She’s playing both solo acoustic gigs and full band gigs with TingYu Lin (Tim Lin)-gtr (Not Another Band, 3秒樂團), Marcus Tsao-bass (he plays with a lot of bands), Kuan You Chi (KC)-drums (薩瑪樂團 ZAMAR) 

Tim, Marcus and KC all played on this song on the EP. (StreetVoice link)

Official Site, SoundCloud (originals, covers, demos), YouTube (covers, miscellaneous clips), StreetVoice (EP and more originals and demos). You can also hear the ep at the KKBOX link above.