#Shanghai Qiutian 上海秋天

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We mentioned some upcoming 大象體操 Elephant Gym gigs in the post a few days ago (Singapore & Malaysia this week), and they also just announced on Instagram:

elephant_gym_official 🔥Big news🔥 Elephant Gym will be participating in this year's SXSW @sxsw music festival, see you in Texas in March! 今年也獲選台灣代表隊！我們會有台灣官方的演出，以及我們在美國的廠牌 @topshelfrecords 的showcase ，請讓大家在美國的朋友知道這個消息☄️ - ⚡️SXSW_Timeline: https://reurl.cc/vmlm1l ⚡️Get the Badge https://schedule.sxsw.com/2023/artists/2064846

The Elephant Gym sxsw page is HERE, but it doesn’t have any dates listed yet.  I think they are playing a Taiwan Night and a Topshelf Records showcase?  Or maybe what they mean is that they will be the TW representative act at the Topshelf showcase? Anyway, the Topshelf Instagram hasn’t posted anything, but I know some of their acts are playing sxsw, including Sobs from Singapore. By the way, Sobs tour poster has the wrong date listed for Brooklyn - it’s actually on Sunday, March 12 (not the 10th.  They are supposed to play a set at New Colossus festival in NYC on the 10th, but no venue details have been posted yet. 椅子樂團 The Chairs (TW) and Shanghai Qiutian 上海秋天 (China) are also listed for the fest. which runs March 8-12)

the sxsw showcase schedule has all the bands listed, but no dates announced. Check it out HERE.

The song Shell is on their 2018 Underwater album, sung by Cudjiy Ija karivuwan. Bandcamp album page doesn’t list the lyrics, but it sounds like an indigenous language or dialect.  I’ve tried every search I can think of, but I can’t find Cudjiy Ija karivuwan under that name.  

EG Links:  Official,  YouTube,  Bandcamp,  Spotify,  E. Gym Instagram,  KT Instagram

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Saw this posted by KT 張凱婷 on her Instagram earlier today, and it's a cool instrumental tune she recorded with ShanghaiQiutian乐队 (weibo) / Shanghai Qiutian 上海秋天 (fb) =D

They are a Shanghai expat band founded in late 2018 by Enaut Martí Zinkunegi aka Enaut Wang and Florian Rudin. They play live as a 4/5 piece. Enaut & Florian both work at MusicLAB China. Their debut ep New Era, Shared Future was released in March, 2019 via 野生唱片.

Links: Xiami, YouTube, 野生唱片Wild Records YT, 野生唱片Wild Records Bandcamp, Spotify, Instagram.

Here's a single from that 2019 release, featuring Sara Zozoya on vocal:

You can listen/purchase that track at Bandcamp.