Music

Liu Yue Trio(China)
With the first-rate jazz musicians as band members, Liu Yue Trio is about to present his original works in our Jazz Festival this year, including Wen Zhu, Zhong Guo Gu Niang, Guo Long Jiang, etc. They are all modern Jazz songs with a strong flavor of Chinese music.
One of the well-known jazz guitarists and bassists in Beijing; a member of Cui Jianʼs Band; the image spokesman for the world renowned bass brand Warwick; the strings spokesmen for DʼAddario. With deep and unique understanding of jazz bass and jazz guitar, Liu expresses the internal elements of music through his superb and refined skill in performances.
Since 1998, he has always been proactive as a music player in jazz performances at home and abroad. He has participated in a wide range of jazz concerts, recordings, and performances in a series of jazz festivals in Beijing, Shanghai, Northern Europe. He has also engaged in the cause of jazz education, by means of recording and publishing his personal VCDs concerning jazz-and-guitar teaching, writing jazz feature lectures for Modern Player, Guitar Fans and other magazines. He is now teaching jazz guitar in Beijing Midi Music School.

The charming four get together again! Lines:

Guitar: Douglas Martin (USA)

Trumpet/Singer：Matthew Parker (Australia)

Bass: Daniel Callaghan (Ireland)

Drums：Fiach O'Brian (Ireland)

Doug Martin, started studying music at age 12. For the first few years of playing he studied rock and blues guitar. His early influences at that time were wide ranging from Joe Satriani, to Led Zeppelin, Metallica, Rush, as well as Freddy King and others. His early blues influences naturally led him to discover notable jazz pioneers such as Charlie Christian, Wes Montgomery, Django Reinhardt and George Benson. These jazz influences would leave a deep impression on Doug early on, which he would come back to years later.

Matthew Parker picked up his uncle's old trumpet and have never put it down since. Then he moved to Sydney to study baroque and classical trumpet with Mr. John Foster, of Australian Baroque Brass acclaim. Following a course of self-study, he became the student of Mr. Warwick Alder, Sydney Conservatory's trumpet teacher. This relationship lasted 3 years, learning jazz while playing at jazz bars all around Australia. Matthew soon started to play with many musicians in Beijing and develop his skills not only on trumpet but also singing, he sings in a classic Chet Baker style.

Dan has been working professionally in Beijing, China since early 2013 and has fast become one of the hardest working bassist in Beijing. His playing has brought him to many cities in China including Shanghai, Hangzhou, xinjiang, Guangzhou and Shenzhen with Chinese and international musicians such as trombonist Robin Eubanks, singer Enrica Bacchia, pianist Alessandr Gilati, saxophonist Handsome Nat Gao, pianist Moreno Donadal.

Fiach is a full time musician and music teacher from Ireland. He studied at the prestigious Newpark Music School in Dublin (now renamed DCU) under the guidance of esteemed jazz drummers Conor Guilfoyle and Kevin Brady, where he majored in rhythm studies and performance. Having completed his Undergraduate, BA in Jazz and Performance, in 2010, he toured extensively in Ireland and the UK collaborating with international artists like Patrice Brun, Julien Colarosi, and Leopoldo Osio.

The Hunters are one of Beijing’s best expatriate music groups and their talent on stage will blow you away. Since the beginning of 2014, this explosive five-piece continues to receive the accolades of the music scene by combining old school Funk, Soul, and Rock classics with modern hits, all mixed and served in an intoxicating and action packed delivery.

The Hunters 是2017年City Weekend 杂志年度最佳乐队–编辑选择的得奖者。

The band recently wonthe 2017 Best Band –Editor’s Choice by City Weekend.The group features the energetic female vocalist Nkese, backboned by four seasoned musicians: James Guo, ConorWatson, Jake Gerl, and Steven Inszce.

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Vocal: Nkese(Trinidad & Tobago)

Guitar: Jake(Virginia,USA)

Keyboard/Harmonica: James(NewYork,USA)

Bass: Steven(Maine,USA)

Drums: Conor(Arizona,USA)

Every Thursday Ladies' Night, 2nd drinks half price for all beauties!

This week @ The BRICKS, we present you a gentlemen's Jazz Duet, with Michal Ciesielski on the keys and David Diao on Saxo.

Michał Ciesielski - Composer, arranger and jazz pianist. He completed his studies in the Academy of Music in Gdańsk, where he received his master’s degree as a jazz composer and jazz pianist. He also studied for a year in the Institut of Jazz in Katowice.

He has composed almost one hundred compositions (contemporary music, film and theatre music, chamber and symphonic music as well as pop songs and many more). He was awarded in several international and national music competitions such as: the International Krzysztof Komeda Composition Competition, Big Sky Jazz Festival, RCK Pro Jazz Festival, School & Jazz Festiwal, Novum Jazz Festival, European Jazz Contest and many more.

Apart from being the leader in Confusion Project, with which he recorded 3 albums and played over 100 concerts, Michał performs in many other bands, such as: Ad Shave, Do Se Sajd, Visegrad Quintet, Tribute To Turnau, Gaba Janusz Quintet Aga Maciaszczyk Quintet. He also performs with his solo project “Between Black & White”

He collaborated with many musicians, such as: Maciej Sikała, Piotr Lemańczyk, Dorota Miśkiewicz, Krystyna Prońko, Maciej Grzywacz, Marcin Gawdzis, Grzegorz Nagórski, Cezary Paciorek, Marcin Jahr or Brian Fentress.

As a pianist Michał toured all around Poland as well as Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Nederlands, Russia, China and Kazakhstan.

David Diao Su Originally from Beijing-China, David immigrated to Canada in 2001. David Diao Su is a musician, film music-composer, producer and bandleader with a creative, versatile, dynamic sound. David completed his bachelor’s degree with academic honours achievement in music performance & production at Humber Music Institute and is an Elizabeth Memorial Award winner. He has studied under Juno award winning musicians like Pat Labarbera, Kirk Macdonald and Robi Botos, and producers like Peter Cook, a 3 time Gemini award winner for best sound and has over 21 Juno award affiliations. David has shared the performance stage, toured and recorded albums with Grammy Award winning jazz artists like Joe Lovano and Donny Mccaslin, and Juno Award winning musicians like Hillario Duran. David has led his own band for many years, and held a bi-weekly residency at Poetry Jazz Café for 5 years in Toronto with his own group, and has be featured in music festivals regularly in Toronto and around the world. In 2017, David along with his quartet toured through six cities in China as a part of the 2017 MIDI Music Tour.

David has produced and collaborated on 11 albums, including: his debut album as lead artist & Producer Precious Days珍贵日 in 2016 which was rated 5 stars on Apple Music. In 2016. His collaborated album “Disaster” with Alex Ernewein as producer, was featured on Canada’s NOW Magazine with 4 stars rating. David collaborated on the album “Like You Do” with Megan Delima and legendary producer Bob Ezrin; who has produced over 100 top albums and is a Canadian Music Hall of fame inductee.

David was profiled as an emerging artist in a Canadian national TV network TVO documentary titled "First Notes" featuring his music and his life, which was listed in the Top Ten TVO Short Documentaries of 2017. In 2018, David scored music for short film “Out Loud” directed by Marina Pyak, and was featured at the Canadian short film festival and won an “Accommodation Award” for its excellence.

Bands: Rough Image 粗糙影像, Baihu白虎 , Deadly Cradle Death 致命摇篮死, Sleeping Dogs

Subtropical Asia is a newly established independent label that looks to present new sounds and scenes to the people. In the spring, we invited Shanghai group Absolute Purity, fronted by Wen Lun of the seminal punk outfit Guai Li, to debut their sound in Beijing. Later on, we turned Yue Space into a battleground - pitting one band against another - including Dirty Fingers, Underdog, Mirrors, and Lonely Leary - ushering in a new age for what a live concert could be.

This time, we’re bringing four bands that that’s aren’t known to most. The common thread that ties them together: their bold psychedelic, experimental, improvisational and sprawling soundscapes that simply can’t be matched. At the end of the summer, on Friday, August 31st, three bold new sounds from some of Beijing’s most prolific musicians welcome the mysterious and captivating krautrock trio Round Image from Changchun, Jilin. This is - A Dazed Nation.

The mystery of Rough Image, the Krautrock psychedelic rock band from Changchun, is very much like most people's impression of their hometown in the northeast - an empty slate, a cypher that can’t be cracked. Their pure unadulterated sets full of Krautrock, psychedelic, noise, and improvisational mayhem - full of assured, slow burning encircling guitar-led arrangements that stimulate the ears as well as the mind - are a wonder to behold. Soothing when restrained, dynamic and kinetic when the mood strikes, they never play the same set twice, instead relying on their surroundings to harness their energy. They’re a sonic treat you don’t want to miss.

The three supporting acts are made up of an array of members from prominent bands of the underground music scene in China, and anyone who has followed Maybe Mars over the years will recognize some of these familiar faces. While Deadly Cradle Death was founded in 2011 by He Fan (the lead singer of the Birdstriking) and Liu Xinyu (formerly of Chui Wan), the newly established psychedelic supergroup Baihu, features a score of Maybe Mars characters including Sun Heting (of Gate to Otherside), and the stylishly lo-fi are still evolving Sleeping Dogs consists of Liu Xinyu, Li Zichao and A Bing (of Boiled Hippo).

Deadly Cradle Death - the cult favourite anti-club duo, that veers off into the deep end and revels in psychedelic undertones of hip-hop, drum n bass, and experimental music, haven’t performed in quite sometime. But promoters Spilt Works shook them out of their stupor this past June to open for Detroit post punk band Protomartyr. Rejuvenated and maybe even a bit shell-shocked they’re looking forward to breaking the silence once and for all this August.

Not long ago, the newly formed Baihu (aka White Tiger) caused quite a commotion in Beijing and Shanghai, attracting attention not only for their solid cast of characters, but for their intoxicating arrangements and alluring blend of sprawling psychedelic soundscapes and wistful daydreaming. The band which features Ricky Maymi, prominent member of the esteemed American psychedelic band The Brian Jonestown Massacre, on drums, is truly on its own wavelength.

Sleeping Dogs made their debut last year at fRUITYSPACE’s epic New Year's Eve bash to much praise. That didn’t stop the trio for completely revamping their sound and tossing out all their old recordings, which are said to have contained elements of jazz, math rock, and electronica. We have no idea if any of that will remain in the band’s current form but we’re eager to find out.

Rough Image (Psychedelic, Noise, Experimental)

Changchun revels in the cavernous underbelly of instrumental rock via Rough Image. The Jilin province trio who are influenced by Krautrock, psychedelic, noise, and experimental rock bring a steady hand to their freewheeling sets – full of assured, slow burning encircling guitar-led jams that stimulate the ears as well as the noogin. Soothing when it’s needs to be, dynamic and kinetic when the mood strikes, and full of enough psychedelic allure and introspective radiance to keep the feeblest of minds entranced, they're a sonic treat you don’t want to miss.

Baihu (Indie, Rock)

The forthcoming psychedelic supergroup made up of some of Maybe Mars’ most mischievous characters including Brain Jonestown Massacre’s Ricky Maymi on drums, Birdstriking/Gate to Otherside’s Sun Heting on vocals, and more familiar faces. A long and winding mixture of psychedelic soundscaping and wistful daydreaming, that offers plenty of surprises.

Deadly Cradle Death (Electronic)

Deadly Cradle Death is an experimental duo that consists of He Fan (Carsick Cars’ bass player and guitarist of Birdstriking) and multi-instrumentalist Liu Xinyu. They chose the name for the band based on the North American TV series “1000 Ways To Die”, according to which the “Deadly Cradle Death” is one out of 1000 ways to die. They describe the atmosphere their music creates as one, in which “theatricality and danger surge up within the electronic sounds until they die a deadly cradle death”. It’s pitch black anti-club music that veers off into the deep end and revels in psychedelic undertones of hip-hop, drum n bass, and experimental music.

Sleeping Dogs (Indie, Rock)

The new project from Zooming Night’ regulars and the psychedelic scene’s most prolific characters including Liu Xinyu and Li Zichao as well as and Abing (Boiled Hippo) creating a jazzy infectious mixture of mathy instrumental tunes with programmed beats.

Tickets: https://www.showstart.com/event/59290

Yichang has been terribly busy since June, and we have not been able to put together a concert for a while. We are happy to introduce two talented performers of Indian classical music to restart our string of concerts. It's a great honor for us to welcome Suramya Pushan Dasgupta & Steve Albert Michael all the way from India. Opportunity knocks but once!

The artists will also give a workshop prior to the concert, please reach out to Yichang Café for more information.The workshop will be on Rhythm Patterns and Cycles of Indian Classical Music and Folk, and will take place in the morning.

Saturday, July 21 , 21：00 - Late

周六，07月21日， 21：00-凌晨

Venue: SOI BAOCHAO CLUB
场地：宝钞仓库酒吧

Address: #10 Baochao Hutong
地址：东城区宝钞胡同10号

Tel: 010-64011066
wechat/微信: baochaocangkubar

Free Entry

免票

（Take note that this party starts at 9:00pm. Early arrival is recommended!）

（活动9点开始，建议提前过来，或者预定楼上座位）

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Singer/songwriter/guitarists Avash is from nepal. He plays mostly blues, rock, country, to any modern beat music. His influences are all the artists musicians who don't stop to experiment on music, like Jimi Hendrix. Music is wonderful.

Giacomo 贾科默

Played guitars, bass, baglamas and sung in Southern Italian, R&B and Pop bands, does percussions and composes. Thinks that music has no nation, no limits, it's not only a Planet Earth thing, it is as old as the Universe and will exist forever. Loves dancing and cilantro.

Thais Cristine was founded in 2018 by Thais, the singer-songwriter, and Luís, the keyboardist. The genre is pop influenced by jazz, blues and soul.

The duo started playing together in 2018, going to open mic nights and creating music at many of Beijing’s studios! Thais Cristine’s music intends to captivate the listener through its lyrics, power and emotions. More than being appreciated, Thais Cristine wants the listeners to feel like they can relate to her songs and make Beijingers feel connected to each other through their music.

弦 Xian

弦，作曲家以及吉他演奏者。 游吟式的生活，放逐, 回到自然，把源于生活的音乐分享给大家听， 是他所追寻的生活。 曲风贯通了世界音乐，民族音乐，宗教冥想等诸多元素， 通过器乐演奏来探索生命的感知。

我们是谁？从何处来，向何处去？ 夜暗晨光的变幻之中，一切都在死亡重生。 古老的月亮倒映在湖水上，平静却虚空幻象，心有所向，倒流岸边的万物逝者， 无形在轮回的变化之中， 宇宙的初始与毁灭，生命的诞生与死亡。 缘起，觉者亦大悟者。

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Spend your Sunny Sunday in Style!

HotPot Movement Presents : HOTPOT SUMMER FEST! 22nd July, 3-10 pm.

A day full of Great live performances from Savor Latino, One Drop Band and G-Staxx!

Latino flavour, Reggae Vibes and Hip Hop beats all in one Summer Music Festival @ Maison Flo!

Pre-Sale Tickets : 100 rmb + 2 complimentary drinks and free bites!

Join us for some Sun, Fun and then Some.Get your dancing shoes ready. Everyone is Welcome!

For tickets, VIP table bookings and more info, add us on WeChat: “hotpotmovement”

This year, Zilong Brazil (company from AleAmazonia, drummer of Shanghai punk band Dirty Fingers), will have its debute as China tour producer, bringing to the middle kingdom the Brazilian jazz bossa-nova group, “Brasil In Trio” for 6 concerts between Beijing and Shanghai.

The group “Brasil In Trio” works consists of a diversity of Brazilian rhythms such as Choro, Samba, Maxixe, Maracatu, Baião, Bossa-Nova and a bit of Jazz. Formed in 2007, the trio presents a traditional work regarding brazilian’s popular music but spices it up with modern and innovative aspects without breaking away from tradition. “Brasil In Trio” consist as Everton Luiz (saxophone and flute), Diego Amaral (percussion) and Julio Lemos (7-string guitar), the three musicians are also music teachers at the Federal University of Goiás, in Brazil.
 

北京 Beijing

7月18日@fRUITYSPACE
60/80 RMB - 9PM

7月19日@DDC
80/100 - 9PM

7月20日@THE BOOKWORM
80/100 - 10PM

Finish up the weekend with an evening of rock n' roll brought to you by promoters the Rock Brothers!

On the docket are ultras punk group Labor Glory, indie garage rockers Nigou, hardcore ensembles with influences from punk to nu metal HZ, and rounding out the line-up, indie rockers Ban Band.

RMB 60 // RMB 40 in advance
Advance tickets: https://wap.showstart.com/event/57145

Line-up:
Labor Glory: https://wap.showstart.com/artist/96801
Nigou: https://site.douban.com/nininiwawa/
Ban Band: https://wap.showstart.com/artist/690352
HZ: https://wap.showstart.com/artist/776349

Rock Brothers: https://wap.showstart.com/host/72144

School Bar July Calendar of Shows: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/znjO72JsB0pfEAik9N18gg

School Bar: http://site.douban.com/school/

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