#allearsmusic

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Let's check out a TW duo called ゲシュタルト乙女 Gestalt Girl =D

This is the closing track on their new Amoeba album, some soft Japanese vocals over laid-back indie pop.

I have hesitated to feature Gestalt Girl, because I thought they were from Japan (on Universal Japan record label), and just happened to be popular in Taiwan. But it seems they were formed in TW in 2016 by Mikan Lin (aka Mika Hayashi)-Voc/Gtr & Kaiaki (Kaiaki Moh)-Gtr.

If you look at the credits at YT, it looks like the record was mostly a Japan production, while the MV was done by TW peeps. (starring actress-singer-songwriter *余佩真 Jen Jen)

Lyrics: Mikan Lin

Music: Kaiak Moh & Mikan Lin

Arrangement: ゲシュタルト乙女 Gestalt Girl

Producer/Recording/Mixing/Drums Tech: Kaiak Moh

Mastering Engineer: Uramoto Masashi（Soi Co.,Ltd）

Recording Studio: Nichiyo Music And Sound Production

Another thing I wanna mention is the nice posts from various TW indies to the Gestalt Girl fb, covering songs/promoting the new album, etc.

By the way, add Gestalt Girl to the number of TW artists that sing at least partly in Japanese, including: 珂拉琪 Collage, PiA吳蓓雅, 四枝筆 Four Pens, 大象體操 Elephant Gym and Cheshire Cat 柴郡貓.

Gestalt Girl links: Instagram, Spotify, StreetVoice, YouTube, Official, KKBOX

* You might remember 余佩真 Jen Jen from co-starring in Misi Ke 柯泯薰’s Cast Away MV

This is her most recent MV, from last fall. It starts out mellow, and gets a little crazy:

A/V credits and lyrics back at YT.

JenJen links: Spotify, Instagram, 亞神音樂娛樂 AsiaMuse YouTube, Chinese Wiki, IMDb actress page

Bonus clip! A live version of the JenJen song above, with enthusiastic help from Misi Ke 柯泯薰. XD

This was a Misi Ke concert at Legacy Taipei on January, 31st, 2021; here's another clip from the same night, Jen Jen joining Misi to perform Cast Away:

Full a/v credits and lyrics back at YT.

Misi Ke Links: 洗耳恭聽 all ears YouTube, Instagram, SoundCloud, Official, Weibo, Spotify

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Let’s check out 鄭興 Leon Zheng, this is his new single.  So gentle and touching!  =D

Leon is a folk/pop singer/songwriter on 洗耳恭聽all ears label.  Full MV credits back at YT, but here are some familiar names:

Producer: 鍾濰宇 Yu (ex-Palapelit)

Arrangement: 鍾濰宇 Yu & Daphne Su 蘇子茵 (Daphne arranged and performed the strings)

Acoustic Guitar: 羅紹恩 Shaoen Lo. Electric Guitar: 鍾濰宇 Yu. 

Bass & Drums: 林奧迪 OD Lin & 江尚謙 Shang-chien Chiang (Both are in 佛跳牆 Buddha Jump)

Backing Vocals: Leon Zheng, 謝至平 Xie Zhi-Ping, 羅晧耘 HauYun Lo (fr. 溫水煮青蛙 Boiling Frogs), Zooey Wonder 黃玠瑋, 張立長 Josh Chang (fr. 老王樂隊)

The actress is 瀬戸かほ Kaho Seto (@setokahoemanon)

More links: weibo, allearsmusic (YT), StreetVoice

Tour coming next month:

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Let’s check out a young singer-songwriter named 林磊 Lei Lin, I think this might be his debut single on the 洗耳恭聽all ears label.  He has several songs at StreetVoice, and some student band project songs as well.  =D

劉哲麟 Chelin Liu (aka 劉哲麟 Dawei Liu) (fr. Destroyers 擊沈女孩, Little Shy on Allen Street) produced and played all the instruments. (full credits at YT)

Here is one he wrote and sang, the info says it’s a graduation song (成功大學107級畢業歌曲) called 不在天涯:

Song/Vocal/Guitar: 林磊 Lei Lin Electric Guitar: 洪毓陽 Keyboard: 蘇維聆 Bass: 曹育榕 Drums: 黃建雄

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Misi Ke 柯泯薰 at 玉成戲院錄音室 Yu Chen Cinema Studio   =D

蘇玠亘 Chuck Su aka 蛋 Egg-Synth, 劉哲麟 Chelin Liu (aka Dawei Liu)-Guitar

The song is by Misi, arranged by the band.  Full credits on screen and back at YT. 

More from Misi Ke: a song that came out this summer, it’s a title theme for a drama episode, I think?  (網路劇《北京到莫斯科》插曲)

Written, arranged, and produced by 柯泯薰 misi Ke & Koffkoff (aka Joe Foo from Singapore. Koffkoff bandcamp)

Vocal: 柯泯薰 misi Ke & Koffkoff  (Full credits back at YT)

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