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i know you're a cindie blog, but i feel like this k song fits the vibe of a lot of the music you post, so i thought I'd share: STANDING EGG - 친구에서 연인 MV

Well, we break the rules from time to time with Thai, Indonesian, and even Filipino artists, so there’s no harm in sharing this tune.  =P

Cute clip and a nice mellow song from Standing Egg (스탠딩 에그):

Just to bring us back on topic, let’s have a listen to Misi Ke 柯泯薰 at Eslite, playing without amplification and passing out birthday cake.  =D

By the way, I think this is the same Eslite store (敦南誠品音樂館) where Crispy did their 24 hour show recently.  I think they are having a bunch of special events to mark the closing of this long-established location.

I love this photo:

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鄭宜農 Enno Cheng directed this beautiful MV, which stars: 王可元,  嚴正嵐,  林予晞, and 陳妤.

Enno wrote the song, and it is much quieter than one of her soaring anthems. Very tasteful arrangement, as well.  Let’s have a look at some of the musical credits:

Producer/Vocal Producer: 盧律銘 Lu Luming

Arrangement: *JB, 林孝親 Hsiao-Chin Lin / 林思妤 Szu-Yu Lin

*I do not know if ‘JB’ stands for 曜爆甘音樂工作室 Just Busy Music Studio, but they are listed in the credits for strings: 

First Violin: 朱奕寧 Yi-Ning Ju. Second Violin: 盧思蒨 Lu Szu-Chien

Viola: 甘威鵬 Weapon Gan. Cello: 葉欲新 Shin (Yushin Ye)

French Horn: 廖竑翔 Hung-Hsiang Liao

Enno played a sold out concert the other night at 天母 體育館 Tienmu Stadium in support of her new 給天王星 Dear Uranus album, but this song is on her Pluto album from 2017.  The studio recording featured the late Ellen Loo (【鄭宜農feat. 盧凱彤– Our Pop Song】), but in the clip, the crowd helped out, it is very touching, and the lighting effects are so cool!:

Band Leader / Keys & Piano: 林泰羽 Taiyu Lin (他者 the other) Guitar: 林建文 Kevin Lin（大頭） Guitar / Sax: 黃浩庭 Haoting Huang Programer / Synth: 何俊葦 Chun Ho aka 小青蛙 (PUMPKINney Fan Club 南瓜妮歌迷俱樂部) Bass: 曹瑋 Marcus Tsao Drum: White Wu 吳柏廷 (Manic Sheep, Prairie WWWW / 落差草原 WWWW)

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What do you do when the crowd wants an encore, but the band is already packing up the instruments?  

Waa Wei 魏如萱 chatting with the crowd and singing a cappella to close out 浪人祭 Vagabond Festival at 福隆海水浴場 Fulong Beach.

Nice lineup for the 2-day fest: 魏如萱waa wei、宇宙人、吳志寧、美秀集團、拍謝少年、無妄合作社、The Roadside Inn、火燒島、粗大Band、Vast&Hazy、許含光、甜約翰、VOOID、脆弱少女組、晨曦光廊、暖嶼、怕胖團、八十八顆芭樂籽、P!SCO、擊沈女孩、島嶼、羣島、暖冬花、培根巴掌！、吳青原、Nights Easy Talk、Science Noodles、感覺莓果、13月終了、比茲卡西、Betterpeter、一頁、少年吔！、迷幻香菇、Lucas 盧子翔

The song Waa sang is 飛鳥 from her 2011 album, 不允許哭泣的場合 No Crying, and this is just gorgeous!  Lyrics by Waa, Music by Waa & 韓立康 Likang Han:

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New single 你們自己玩遊戲 Reset from The Girl and the Robots 女孩與機器人!   =D

Music by Riin, Lyrics: 陳昭淵 Chen Chao-Yuan & Riin (Lin Yijun 林怡君). (Chao-Yuan has some songs at StreetVoice under the name Wonda Chen, and you can find him at YouTube also)

Producer：Jungle

Vocals Producer：田曉梅 Brandy Tien (Brandy 布藍地)

Arranger：STL (Lin Shin-Ting), 蕭勝文 Hsiao,  紀昱名 Watorest 

Acoustic Piano：Hsiao  (STL & 蕭 Hsiao are the electronica duo 三重電音宮 SanChung Electronic Kong and also work with the Robots)

Backing Vocals Arranged/Sung by Brandy

MV directed by Vera Solaris  索拉力星影像 Vera Solaris Film, starring Riin & 林于農 Lubylong Lin (singer for 仙樂隊 SEN)

Earlier on Sunday, Riin & 阿牧君 mumu played an acoustic version of the song at 賣捌所 UriSabakisho; Riin kept Fran Fran (Frandé, 法蘭黛樂團) on stage for moral support, LOL:

By the way, this was part of an event with Zulin Wu 吳志寧/929樂團, Dadado Huang Jie 黃玠, Stanley Hong 洪詮翔 & Jiang Songlin 江松霖 (Xiaosong). I’ll keep my eye on lkk31067 YT channel for more from this long evening of songwriters.  =D

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A coupla days ago, we posted some 鄭宜農 Enno Cheng news and a video from her acoustic tour.  

Earlier today (Sunday) she did a show at BEANS & BEATS in Taipei with 阿牧君 mumu and Gao Xiao Gao (白目樂隊 The White Eyes). 

The song In Lust I Lost was on The White Eyes 2011 ep Dead Boy:

It is also included on their 2017 album, 可笑的一天 with a more elaborate arrangement and it sounds amazing!  

lkk31067 YT is documenting Enno’s travels and she’s just uploaded another video from Sunday with Enno, Mumu, Xiao Gao plus Riin (The Girl and the Robots 女孩與機器人) and a very shy Fran (Frandé, 法蘭黛樂團). They sing Enno’s 2018 single The Path 人生很難. So cool to see all of these TW indie goddesses having fun playing music. Watch it HERE.

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Blast from the past!  929樂團 from 2008. Fun singalong song on their 2nd album.  =D

At the time, the band was Zulin Wu 吳志寧-gtr/voc, Russy Ing 吳雋然 aka DuDu 嘟嘟-bass/drums, Dadado Huang Jie 黃玠-gtr/voc, and Chan Cheng-yun (詹正筠) aka 小龜-keys/voc.

In 2009, 929樂團 went on hiatus and 小龜 & Dudu continued with their other band Miss Stocking 絲襪小姐 which includes 昆蟲白 / Insecteens Huang (黃建勳) on gtr (微光群島 Shimmering Islands aka Sugar Plum Ferry 甜梅號) and 錢煒安 Zen Chien-drums (Doodle and 8mm sky).  

Dadado, Dudu and Zulin restarted 929 with Robert Jen 任柏璋 on drums (he has played with many acts -- check out his fb -- I had no idea he had such a resume!).  In 2015, Dadado left to concentrate on his solo career and a new guitarist 蘇啟文 aka ‘由小蘇’ (光群島 Shimmering Islands) was added to complete the current lineup.  I think their 4th album came out last year.

Anyway, the reason I went on this 929 tangent is because of this clip from Sunday, a songwriter event at 賣捌所 UriSabakisho (we posted about it yesterday). Check it out: that’s Dadado & 小龜 singing the same 929 song from up above, with Dudu on drums, and a backing/dancing chorus of Riin, Fran Fran, Mumu and 江松霖 (Xiaosong)

Fran tries to coax some little kid into dancing, but it’s not happening. XD

By the way, 小龜 is one of the managers of 賣捌所 UriSabakisho in Yilan City, I think we’ve mentioned this before. On March 21st, she posted that as of April, they are suspending operation. I don’t know if this is permanent?. Maybe someone can take a look at the announcement and clarify this for me. I’d appreciate the info. =)

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魏如昀 Queen Wei had 鄭宜農 Enno Cheng in for a visit on Wednesday at Hit FM radio in Taiwan.  Queen took over her sister’s DJ job when Waa took maternity leave.  

Enno is currently on a small venue acoustic tour. (2 sets tomorrow (3-16) at 灰咖啡 Hway Coffee in Kaohsiung)

lkk31067 YT channel has uploaded clips from the shows at Forro Cafe in Taichung (3-10) and 賣捌所 UriSabakisho in Yilan City (3-9).  Here’s a tune that was released on her 2011 album, Neptune:

She also released Beautiful Song on a handmade/self-released ep in 2009. This clip is from her old ennogogo YT channel:

Enno’s main YT channel: 鄭宜農 Enno Cheng

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lkk31067 YT channel has Enno Cheng 鄭宜農’s full set from 覺醒大暖祭 Warm Up Festival last weekend. (7 clips, 8 songs) Recommended!  =D

鄭宜農 & The Farmers: 何俊葦 aka 小青蛙-keys/gtr/programer (PUMPKINney Fan Club 南瓜妮歌迷俱樂部), 黃浩庭 Haoting Huang-sax/gtr (Sunset Rollercoaster 落日飛車), 林泰羽 Taiyu Lin-keys/bass (他者 the other)

I think that is 黃士瑋 (鳥人) (OrangeGrass 橙草, 小福氣 Felix Felicis) on electronic drums

I don’t usually comment on what the performers are wearing, but I gotta say, Enno looks amazing. =D

You can see they had packed the venue for their set:

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Chocolate Tiger 猛虎巧克力 at 游牧森林音樂祭Nomad Festival this past weekend  =D

I really wish Enno would do a new Chocolate Tiger album as her next project, this band is too good to keep on a dusty, back shelf!  

Celine Ling 林思伶-bass/b.voc, Enno Cheng 鄭宜農-voc.gtr,  張妤安 Adeline-drums (support drummer w/ Four Pens 四枝筆樂團), 楊永純 (Vitz Young)-gtr (from I Mean Us & Triple Deer)

photos by fotoallison & 曹欣媛  (more choco shots at fb, and many sets from other bands at 游牧森林音樂祭Nomad Festival fb)

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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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A little comic relief, Waa 魏如萱 doing her HitFM DJ show for Kotex靠得住. 

Laughing, talking, singing over all the songs, even her own. XD  

(By the way, there is a LOT of Waa content at lkk31067 YT channel.)

You can watch the full show stream at facebook, the play is blank/silent until 18 minutes in.  She chats with the crowd, but she’s also talking to the radio audience.  You can kinda tell when the radio broadcast is on commercial breaks, but it’s a non-stop performance for the crowd / live stream.  =D

Bonus clip from the 2017第八屆金音創作獎 Awards: DJ Mykal a.k.a.林哲儀, TRASH樂團, and Waa. The middle song is a slightly heavy version of Waa’s I Will Be Fine:

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魏如萱 Waa Wei played a set on the main stage with her Lovely Baby band at A Good Day Records 風和日麗唱片行 Pause & Play fest, but she also reunited with Chico Tsai to bring back their old duo Natural Q for a set on the Witch House stage.  =D

Chico also played a set with his band.  It’s a shame that the fest had rain, but the kids still had fun.

lkk31067 YT channel has the full Natural Q set. This clip starts with 2 minutes of chatting, then a really cute song, ‘Q Q Q’:

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Waa Wei Ruxuan 魏如萱 in New York, New York. A city so nice, they named it twice. Suddenly it just got even nicer.  =D  (Waa is/was in the city to run a half-marathon, I think)

Last month at the Crispy 脆樂團 album launch, a beautiful singalong with DingDing, Skippy Lu 盧羿安 and the Legacy crowd:

DingBuLaDing 丁律妏 hitting those high harmony notes for Waa... Tough assignment, and she handled it with aplomb!  =D