#梁丹郡 Mandark Liang

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甜約翰 Sweet John with a new ‘live session’.

This is a bit sci-fi (Directed by 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐲 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐧), but mostly great songs, great singing, great playing.  Outstanding TW band!  =D

These songs are from previous releases. (I tried to figure that out by translating their KKBOX list of songs to English. Can’t do that at Spotify, unfortunately)

☄ Rain Onto the One Lyricist: Leon Wu Composer: Duncan Shih, Mandark Liang ☄ Blank Page Lyricist: Genwie Wu Composer: Can Chen, Duncan Shih, Genwie Wu, Mandark Liang ☄ But You Know, Right? Lyricist: Genwie Wu Composer: Mandark Liang ☄ Search by a Kiss Lyricist: Leon Wu Composer: Genwie Wu ☄ Sensitive Topics Lyricist: Leon Wu Composer: Genwie Wu, Mandark Liang

吳浚瑋 Genwie Wu-voc/gtr (he’s also a vocal coach), Mandark Ravel (梁丹郡) aka 梁丹郡 Mandark Liang-keys/voc (I Mean Us), 陳冠宇 aka 陳罐頭 Can Chen-gtr,  阿獎 石裕獎 Duncan Shih-bass, 小J JJ Jhong (aka Jay Chung, Joey Instagram))-drums.  吳倬安 Leon Wu (choanwu) writes some lyrics. 

Full a/v credits at YT

Links: YouTube,  Spotify,  Instagram,  Weibo,  StreetVoice,  Bandcamp

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詞曲 Music ＆ Lyrics｜法蘭 Fran製作人 Producer｜五月天 瑪莎 Mayday Masa編曲 Arrangement｜李詠恩 Joshua Lee鼓組 Drums｜潘維翰 Wei-Han Pan貝斯 Bass｜五月天 瑪莎 Mayday Masa吉他Guitar｜屠衡 Josh Tu和聲．和聲編寫 Backing Vocal & Arrangement｜梁丹郡 Mandark Liang錄音工程師 Recording Engineer｜柯弗奇 Evan Ko (Backing Vocal)錄音工作室 Recording Studio｜相信音樂錄音室 B’in Music Studio (Backing Vocal)混音工程師 Mixing Engineer｜蔡周翰 Chou-Han Tsay混音工作室 Mixing Studio｜Lights Up Studio混音助理 Mixing Assistant｜于世政 Shih-Cheng Yu執行製作 Executive Producer｜柯弗奇 Evan Ko．楊世暄 Sam Yang

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A few recent MVs from some FYCI favorites. =D

First up, this is 甜約翰 Sweet John, a song written by 吳倬安 Leon Wu (lyrics) w/ music/lead voc by 吳浚瑋 Genwie Wu & 梁丹郡 Mandark Liang, arranged by the band. (full a/v credits and lyrics at YT)

Links: YouTube,  Spotify,  Instagram,  Weibo,  StreetVoice,  Bandcamp

Next, the newest single from Vast & Hazy, written by 顏靜萱 Ka Ka Yen (lyrics), music by 林以晨 Victor Lin & 顏靜萱 Ka Ka Yen. (Victor is a member of So-So Heroes 瘦瘦英雄). This is a bit more laid-back than usual from VH, but it's still a beauty:

Lyrics and credits also back at YT. Links: YouTube,  添翼音樂 TEAM EAR MUSIC YT,  Spotify,  Weibo,  Instagram,  咖咖 KaKa Instagram

Finally, 原子邦妮 Astro Bunny and the song 我注定不是和你相愛的人 Not Meant To Be from their latest album, Should Have Let Go (明明早點放棄就沒事了). The album came out on late December of 2023.

Co-written and arranged by the duo: NU (張羽承 Edward Chang) & Lena Cha 查查 (查家雯).

Full credits and lyrics at YT.

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Some new MVs...

First up, 隱分子 Infancy with some cello-driven prog rock.   Full a/v credits and lyrics at YT, but here’s the band:  Hang Liu 劉涵-voc/keys/cello, Nelson Wu (小黑)-bass (Icy Ball 冰球樂團), 黃維昱 Mike Huang-drums, 吳家霖 Johnny Wu-gtr.     Infancy Links:   隱分子樂團 YouTube,  Spotify,  Instagram,  iNDIEVOX,  StreetVoice,  liu Hang YouTube, Hang 劉涵 Instagram

Next up, a new live clip from 麋先生 Mixer.  These guys always have an excellent presentation and powerful tunes.  Lyrics back at YT.  Same lineup, as far as I can tell:  吳聖皓 Sheng Hao Wu-Vocal, 林喆安 Z-An Lin-A.Gtr, 小B Bosy Yu-E.Gtr, 張以諾 Eno Chang-Bass, 盧逸凡 Vincent I-Fan Lu-Drums.   Mixer Links: YouTube,  Instagram,  StreetVoice,  Spotify,  Weibo,  Vincent Lu IG, 張以諾 IG, Z-an IG

Finally, a new ballad from 法蘭 Fran. (Frandé, 法蘭黛樂團) This is a sweet 80′s-style arrangement that features a melodic bass line and tasteful lead gtr.:

Music ＆ Lyrics & Lead Voc: 法蘭 Fran

Producer / Bass: 五月天瑪莎 Mayday Masa Arrangement: 李詠恩 Joshua Lee (Hello Nico) Drums: 潘維瀚 Pan Wei Han (粉紅噪音樂團 Pink Noise) Guitar: 屠衡 Josh Tu Backing Vocal & Arrangement: 梁丹郡 Mandark Liang (I Mean Us, 甜約翰 Sweet John)

Links:  Frandé Spotify, Fran Spotify, 非常棒 Fusion Bomb YouTube, 法蘭 Fran YouTube, fran fran Instagram, frandemusic Instagram

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How about this combination?!  甜約翰 Sweet John featuring 魏如萱 waa wei  

3 beautiful voices on this track!   =D

Lyrics: 石裕獎 Duncan Shih / 魏如萱 waa wei Music: 石裕獎 Duncan Shih Producer: 鍾濰宇 Yu Arrangement: 甜約翰 Sweet John Vocal: 吳浚瑋 Genwie Wu Guitar : 陳冠宇 Can Chen (aka 陳罐頭 Can Chen) Drums: 鍾曜年 Jay Chung (小J JJ Jhong) Keys/Voc: 梁丹郡 Mandark Liang (also in I Mean Us) Bass: 石裕獎 Duncan Shih

Full a/v credits and lyrics back at YT.

Sweet John links: YouTube,  Spotify,  Instagram,  Weibo,  StreetVoice,  Bandcamp

Waa links: Instagram,  Spotify,  YouTube,  forgoodmusic YouTube,  添翼音樂 TEAM EAR MUSIC YT playlist,  weibo,  forgood café 好多咖啡,  Hit FM聯播網,  Hit FM YT channel

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A couple artists at the top of their game! =D

First up, a recent *lyric MV from Singapore singer-songwriter Linying. I wish I could hear songs like this on American stations. Catchy without being gimmicky, and a very tasteful arrangement. Good Behaviour is the title track of a 2021 5-song single, and all 5 of those songs are included on her new album, There Could Be Wreckage Here. Let's hear one more, and this tune is also on both releases:

*Just noticed that there is a proper MV for Good Behaviour, check it out HERE.

Links: SoundCloud, Linying YouTube, Instagram, Spotify, LinyingVEVO YT

And here is a song from the recent I Mean Us album, Into Innerverse. UNICODE features 鳳小岳 Rhydian Vaughan:

Music: 梁丹郡 Mandark Liang

Lyrics: 梁丹郡 Mandark Liang & 楊永純 (Vitz Yang)

Arranged by: I Mean Us

Produced by: 韓立康 Likang Han (Likang has also played some guitar at their recent shows.)

Vocal: Mandark Liang & 鳳小岳 Rhydian Vaughan

Guitar: *章羣 Chun Zhang (aka Zebrateens), Vitz Yang, Rhydian Vaughan

Synthesizer: Mandark Liang & Yuqi (@UQiYO)

Drums: 呂佩蓬 Pam Lu (PP L)

Bass: 陳思翰 Hank Chen

Chorus: 季欣霈 Apay, Rhydian Vaughan, Mandark Liang

Chorus Arranger: Mandark Liang Full a/v credits at YT)

*I've been wondering about I Mean Us -- some of their recent promo includes 章羣 Chun Zhang and some doesn't. I also saw a live clip where he wasn't with the band, and Mandark was singing his usual lead vocal songs. He is in the MV above, playing guitar.

By the way, I hope you saw our recent cover post, which included Rhydian & IMU playing Helter Skelter by The Beatles.

IMU Links: I Mean Us YouTube, Spotify, Instagram, SoundCloud, Bandcamp, Albums, Merch, etc.

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Waa Wei 魏如萱 looming over Times Square! =D

From her IG:

waawei 前幾個星期我還在節目上和聽眾分享之前去布魯克林跑馬拉松的事情，就好想念那時候去的所有地方，一直說好想再去紐約喔什麼的，也好喜歡那時候住的Hotel 1。 那天看見妹姐的照片登上時代廣場，覺得很震撼，同時她也是代表Spotify 《EQUAL》為女性平權發聲。我那天還在節目上聊了那時候在Times Square看到的一些景象，附近有一間很大的muji，我和朋友們還在旁邊的日本料理店吃晚餐。 其實上星期已經有人幫我p圖，我覺得很幽默很想發文，但公司說不行，結果今天我的照片真的出現在紐約了！天啊～～～尖叫～～～好激動、好開心、好驕傲，真的好囂張喔！ 可以接棒在張惠妹和莫文蔚的後面感到榮幸，一個地方媽媽的照片出現在世界的十字路口，為了女性平權也給所有母親們加油，「電影哪有我們瘋狂 我是你媽 變形金剛 」我們

Waa links: Instagram, Spotify, YouTube, forgoodmusic YouTube, weibo, forgood café 好多咖啡, hit fm hitoradio fb, Hit FM YT channel

Let's have a listen to the title track of her new album:

Music/Lyrics: 魏如萱 waa wei

Arrangement: 韓立康 Gummy Bear Man (aka 韓立康 Likang Han)

Producer: Gummy Bear Man / 陳建騏 George Chen / Shao-Yong Huang 黃少雍

Guitar/Synth/Vocal Producer: Gummy Bear Man

Drum Sample: Gummy Bear Man / 賴聖文 Peter Lai

Bass: 陳弘禮 Hung-li Chen (fr. Sunset Rollercoaster 落日飛車, Come on! BayBay! 來吧!焙焙!)

Backing Vocal Arrangement: Gummy Bear Man / 梁丹郡 Mandark Liang

Backing Vocal: waa wei / Gummy Bear Man

Full a/v credits and lyrics at YT.

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I’m really looking forward to hearing this! 👍😄🎶

I Mean Us generously sharing their full 2021 album above! =D

Let's hear one of the first singles, this has just a few repeated lyric lines; the band is super strong and the vocals are ethereal:

Composer: 梁丹郡 Mandark Liang (also in 甜約翰 Sweet John)

Lyrics: 梁丹郡 Mandark Liang & 楊永純 (Vitz Yang)

Arranged & Performed by: I Mean Us:

Vocal/Guitar/Synth: 章羣 Chun Zhang

Vocal/Keyboard: 梁丹郡 Mandark Liang

Guitar: 楊詠淳 Vitz (also in Triple Deer, Chocolate Tiger 猛虎巧克力)

Drums: 呂佩蓬 Pam Lu (PP L)

Bass: 漢克 (陳思翰 Hank Chen) (also in SADOG)

Chorus: 劉庭佐 (Joe Liu) (He is the guitarist in the band hue, and singer w/ 知更 John Stoniae)

Links: I Mean Us YouTube, Spotify, Instagram, SoundCloud, Bandcamp, Albums, Merch, etc.

I Mean Us - Into Innerverse [Full Album] 2021

“Along the marching beats we stride and sing. Shall our dreams and fantasies be shattered to pieces. Deafening roars are what we leave as legacies.” I Mean Us —— This is far beyond just the name of the band, it also means “uniting every single piece of different instruments,  ideas and thoughts as one.” Sometimes the outcome isn’t always perfectly smooth as they expected, but it’s just like every spectacular mountain has its striking edges and corners. The album Into Innerverse was created after facing the bitterness of life and the sorrow of losing friends. All these songs tell different stories, such as a night cruising memory, a self-mumbling moment and an imagination beyond life and death. It has been three years since they released their first debut album. I Mean Us have walked through the pandemic with this world side by side. Those anxious and helpless hours forced them to start digging into the deep innerverse, which was already full of darkness. Till these days, I Mean Us is still exploring the unknown areas in our hearts. They won’t stop cultivating those alternative and surreal sounds even when the time comes to an end.

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Outstanding new single from 林以樂 Yile Lin (aka 斑斑 BenBen)   =D

Written by Yile Lin

Arranged by Yile Lin,  Mandark (梁丹郡),  HLK

Produced by 韓立康 HLK

Credits on screen at the end of the MV.  (Full musician credits at 5:21, all are familiar names to FYCI!)

Links:  林以樂 Spotify,  Skip Skip Ben Ben Instagram,  林以樂 SoundCloud,  林以樂リン·イーラー YouTube,   林以樂 (リン·イーラー) (twitter),  林以樂 (リン·イーラー) Bandcamp,  牡蠣造音 mulii (YouTube),  雀斑樂團 Freckles

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More Christmas presents!    New MV from 甜約翰 Sweet John just posted today.  This band is so slick, so tight, so good!   =D

This is the opening track on their 2019 album, 城市小說選集 (Urban Fiction Select)

Lyricist: 吳倬安 Leon Wu Composer: Mandark Liang (梁丹郡), 吳浚瑋 Genwie Wu Arrangement: 甜約翰 Sweet John Main Recording & Producer: 鍾濰宇 Yu  @ 89 studio   Drum Recording & Co-Producer: 錢煒安 Zen Chien @ 112F Recording Studio

Yu was in Palapelit, and Zen is the drummer in 8mm sky 八厘米天空, Miss Stocking 絲襪小姐, and Doodle

Sweet John are: 吳浚瑋 Genwie Wu-voc/gtr, Mandark Ravel (梁丹郡)-keys/voc (I Mean Us), 陳罐頭 Can Chen-gtr,  阿獎 (石裕獎 Duncan Shih)-bass, 小J JJ Jhong (Jay Chung)-drums

Links:  YouTube,  Spotify,  Instagram

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TOKYO ACOUSTIC SESSION usually only film around Japan, but recently they traveled to Taiwan for a 2-song unplugged session with I Mean Us!  =D

章羣 Zebrateens (Chun Zhang)-gtr/voc, Mandark Ravel (梁丹郡)-keys/voc (甜約翰 Sweet John), 楊永純 (Vitz Yang)-gtr (Triple Deer, Chocolate Tiger 猛虎巧克力), 漢克 (Hank Chen)-bass (SADOG), 呂佩蓬 Pam Lu (PP L)-drums (Lake Blue 湖水藍)

By the way, this was shot at marvelous Mandark’s home, and you can see & hear her pet bird during the song.  XD

You can also watch at the official site: http://tokyoacousticsession.com/

Last Friday, I Mean Us played in Fukuoka, Japan:

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I Mean Us news: the MV for 《EYƎ》is premiering tomorrow night, and so I’ll post this photo of Marvelous Mandark Ravel (梁丹郡) who recently made a very slight change in her appearance. =D [Photo by cathyyy_0711, Hairstyle by 王梅]

Placeholder for the MV:

Actually, the photo of Mandark is from a recent performance at StarNest MusicFest in Wuhan, China (武漢星巢音樂節) with her other band 甜約翰 Sweet John

Sweet John posted a new demo this week, and of course it’s gorgeous:

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This is a feature/interview by Wang Hsin-Chuan with the full I Mean Us band conducted at Yu Cheng Cinema Studio.   I think the article includes an English translation of this video: I Mean Us @CINEMA SESSIONS - Behind The Scene 訪談花絮  (see below)

章羣 Zebrateens (Chun Zhang)-gtr/voc, Mandark Ravel (梁丹郡) (aka Mandark Liang)-keys/voc (甜約翰 Sweet John), 楊永純 (Vitz Young aka Vitz Yang)-gtr (Triple Deer, Chocolate Tiger 猛虎巧克力), 漢克 (Hank Chen)-bass (SADOG), 呂佩蓬 Pam Lu (PP L)-drums (Lake Blue 湖水藍)  

More links: I Mean Us YouTube, iNDIEVOX, SoundCloud

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Soaring, dreamy shoegazer from the debut album from I Mean Us    =D

Written by Marvelous Mandark Ravel, the song just posted earlier today.

The band are: 章羣 Zebrateens (Chun Zhang)-gtr/voc, Mandark Ravel (梁丹郡) aka Mandark Liang-keys/voc (甜約翰 Sweet John), 楊永純 (Vitz Young)-gtr (Triple Deer, Chocolate Tiger 猛虎巧克力), 漢克 (Hank Chen)-bass (SADOG), 呂佩蓬 Pam Lu (PP L)-drums (Lake Blue 湖水藍)

Tour on the way:

The guest act in Kaohsiung will be 鐘禮學 aka 克拉克 Clark from 橙草 Orangegrass, and the guest act in Taipei will be Enno Cheng 鄭宜農 (or maybe her full band Enno Cheng and the Farmers?)

李鑫 profiled the band and investigated the recording progress back in June for Blow/StreetVoice.

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That’s a heavenly choir of TW singers backing up ‘Maa Wei’ at TICC!   =D

The song is If (music/lyrics by Jackie Yu) from Waa’s 在哪裡 Where ep (2011). 

We previewed this gathering of singers a few weeks ago. Left to right, that’s Hang Liu 劉涵 (Infancy 隱分子樂團), DingBuLaDing 丁律妏 (Crispy 脆樂團), Paige Su 蘇珮卿, and Marvelous Mandark Ravel 梁丹郡 (I Mean Us, 甜約翰 Sweet John).

Listen closely to how they divide up the vocal arrangement.  And bravo to 丁律妏 for those stratospheric harmonies!  =D 

lkk31067 YT channel has about 9 songs of the concert posted. (including 1 more song with the choir -- go listen, it’s spectacular!) 

The stage setting was arranged to keep Waa off of her feet as much as possible, not a lot of dancing/jumping as she is 7 months pregnant.  

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甜約翰 Sweet John  

I really wish I could attend a show from these talented peeps! 

吳浚瑋 Genwie Wu-voc, Mandark Ravel (梁丹郡)-voc/keys, 陳罐頭 Can Chen-gtr, 阿獎-bass, 小J JJ Jhong (Jay Chung)-drums

By the way, marvelous Mandark’s other band I Mean Us are recording their album now. They had a listening party live performance at the studio tonight.