Music

One of the fav Beijing based bands MADEMOISELLE ET SON ORCHESTRE - will have a last summer gig at Modernista! This six piece band based in Beijing - is again with us for a proper music bash! They are the only group in China offering a unique repertoire of French songs. The band has played since 2004 throughout China in many events for the promotion of French culture. Their music is party inspired by Gypsy Jazz: a style invented in France in the 1930s by Stefan Rappelli and Django Reinhardt. Using the Gypsy Jazz style, Mademoiselle et son Orchestre re-invents the classic songs by Piaf, Brassens, Gainsbourg, and many others. Their own tunes are spiced with humours and imaginative lyrics, which bring the audience into the surreal dream world of Mademoiselle ...

Classically trained opera singer Melanie Kristen teaches you everything you need to know to improve your voice, including breathing techniques, vocal warm ups, how to identify vocal timbre, and understanding your body as an instrument. Join her at Flow Creative on Tuesday for her group Foundations of Singing class.

For more information or to register, visit: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/ztFiSOdTusMTtjG30LGIPA

Caliph8 aka Akilraham Sleuth is a sound and visual artist. He explores the implication of merging, summing and hybridization, creating a new cultural syntax out of the debris of the already-given.

He delves into composition and sound exploration, where he deploys sheets of polyrhythmic beats, one-note samples and deconstructed audio cut and paste sound sequences, creating an aural continuity between the sampled musician and the synthesist. He explores sample- based synthesis and granular synthesis as part of his creative methods in composing and manipulating sound.

His influences span from true school hip-hop, experimental, folk, no wave, noise, sound art and ethnomusicology among others. He combines all of these elements and creates a hybrid permutation of gut wrenching aural blast, creating an open-ended tension.

For the past 22 years, he has been active in Manila and overseas, primarily involved with the local visual and sound art and platforms. See him at Yue Space on July 5th.

For more information or to buy tickets, visit: http://www.musikid.com/new/station/24167

HONNE are the soundtrack to our digital romances, our urban love lives in the 21st century. Their smooth electronic-soul a widescreen take on modern heartbreak and timeless heartache.

‘Warm on a Cold Night.’Good Together’. Their smash-hit singles have won them a massive global following, and their debut album was a captivating record that flirted with funk and shone in its quieter moments.

They’ve got an irresistibly infectious sophomore album on the way, and a blissful, swooning live show perfected over the last half-decade. HONNE are making their China debut with Concrete & Grass, and we can’t wait to share it all with you. See them at Tango 3F on August 1st.

For more information or for tickets, visit: https://yoopay.cn/event/honnechina2018

Super School Fighter is the brainchild of GeiGei, aka Gu Jingping, aka Quick Shot signer, and aka long-time staple of the Beijing music scene. For the past 4+ years she has been booking gigs at School via her Super School Fighter project, and over the last couple years has settled into booking almost every Thursday evening show at School. Starting last summer SSF expanded beyond Beijing, and now books weekly/monthly shows in Shanghai, Chengdu, Xiamen, Wuhan, and elsewhere around China. With an eye out for new talent and wanting to discover bands just getting started, don't miss these Thursday shows in July at School Bar.

Write-up for this month's SSF shows: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/IG2-4vhqfwemYjb4GkZG6w

All shows RMB 40 // RMB 30 in advance

See you at School Bar Thursday's this month!

July 5
Advance tickets: https://wap.showstart.com/event/58241
The Story Teller: https://wap.showstart.com/artist/226494
Light the Night: https://site.douban.com/ltn/
MoZhui: https://wap.showstart.com/artist/718308

July 12
Advance tickets: https://wap.showstart.com/event/58242
Fancy Wall: https://site.douban.com/FancyWall/
Summer Warz: https://wap.showstart.com/artist/11352
Outspoken: https://site.douban.com/outspoken/

July 19
Advance tickets: https://wap.showstart.com/event/58218
Hard Bone: https://wap.showstart.com/artist/561638
Kejdi Binaj (柯頔)
Tan Xiaojun and Band: https://site.douban.com/tanxiaojun/

July 26
Advance tickets: https://wap.showstart.com/event/58219
Wireless Puppet: https://site.douban.com/puppetband/
Strong Shell: https://wap.showstart.com/artist/1230384
Friendly Tips: https://site.douban.com/tips/

Super School Fighter: https://site.douban.com/215772/

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

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

Follow School Bar on WeChat for all the latest show info, last minute updates/secret shows, interviews, and more! WeChat ID: schoollivebar

With a theme of "I Rebel; Therefore I Exist," get ready for a night of blues and urban/pop.

Set to accompany on your musical journey this evening are Americana blues outfit Great Buffalo Blues, urban pop foursome The Coin Locker, and rounding out the line-up, Li Eryang.

RMB 50

Line-up:
Great Buffalo Blues
The Coin Locker: https://site.douban.com/coinlocker/
Li Eryang

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

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

Follow School Bar on WeChat for all the latest show info, last minute updates/secret shows, interviews, and more! WeChat ID: schoollivebar

Another pool party in Beijing 14th of July 2018 @CITIC Hotel Beijing Airport

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzIzODMyMzY2Mw==&mid=2247483925&idx=1&sn=606ee1e6af9382e66d2840a20e379ccd&chksm=e93a50b5de4dd9a3eb5604b79e6314d3d061145880cc1d0ad46b59a409041b4934aa0dc54c8d#rd

Catch Taiwanese indie act Smoking Area 25, rising EDM and alt-rock stars Nova Heart, kraut rock/post-punk act Faz, shoegaze group Last Goodbye, and rockers SNOS in concert with the Chicago indie band Chinese Football at Tango 3F on July 21st.

For more information or to buy tickets, visit: https://www.showstart.com/event/54750

Bardi Johannsson, a tall Icelandic man, has been playing under the name Bang Gang since 1996. First came the very atmospheric You (2000), with surprisingly soft, vaporous outlines for someone with such a violent stage name. 2003 confirmed Bardi’s talent as a composer, performer and producer. Two simultaneous albums made him a major figure of musical melancholy: Something Wrong, Bang Gang’s second album, where the softness of the acoustic songs meets adventurous electronic explorations; and Lady & Bird, a side-project for an androgynous duo with the talented artist Keren Ann. Hot on the success of these two creations, but never over-confident, Bardi toured Europe, Japan and the USA before vanishing back to his anonymous activities, away from the limelight. He is a complete artist and devotes himself to an assortment of subjects and styles, always keeping the same aesthetic awareness: he admits to an inclination to both the roughest hard-rock and Ennio Morricone or Serge Gainsbourg, and says that limiting his artistic expression only to music would make him feel frustration and suffering. In the past five years, he has been anything but idle: he co–directed a short film (Red Death, screened at the Pompidou Centre in 2004), produced and wrote lyrics for several Icelandic artists, and composed a soundtracks (Haxan, 2005).

Nevertheless, and for our greatest pleasure, Bardi has returned to his first love: songwriting. For, once again, that is what this third album is: a collection of songs. Extremely well-written songs, full of melodic outbursts, the likes of which are rarely seen these days; with careful arrangements and coherence, but still diverse. From the pop manifest to the almost metallic influences of a hit, I Know You Sleep is an irresistible pop-rock track; the emotional crescendo and the almost mystical rise of the opera singer on Ghost from the Past will bring tears to your eyes; and Don’t Feel Ashamed is an ethereal delicacy, a sublime composition worthy of the best of The LotusEaters or The Cocteau Twins. Bardi proves here, if needed, the extent of his talent.

Bardi Johannsson loves mysteries and eclecticism; he is always ready to take the least expected detours. Like the spectres evoked in this third album, Ghosts from the Past, he sometimes disappears and reappears, but his music never cesses to haunt us.

For more information or to buy tickets to his Beijing show at Tango 3F on July 10th, visit: https://www.showstart.com/event/55184

FKJ (French Kiwi Juice) is the alias of French multi-instrumentalist and singer Vincent Fenton. He released eponymous first album in 2017 and has brought his New French House mix to festivals like Coachella, Euphoria and Lightning in a Bottle. See him at Tango 3F on July 27th.

For more information or to buy tickets, visit: https://www.showstart.com/event/57425