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Jun 13 20:30 pm -
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RMB 180, RMB 150 (advance)

Jazz hip-hop artist Nomak grew up surrounded by nature in Japan. Today, that contact with the beauty of nature and traditional Japanese music continue to impact his more modern work. See the artist at Mao Livehouse Wukesong on Thursday, June 13th, as he brings his unique style to China on his “Phenomenal Love” Tour.


For more information or to buy tickets, visit: https://www.247tickets.com/t/nomak-beijing

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Nomak “Phenomenal Love” China Tour 2019
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Apr 21 20:30 pm - 1:00 am
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Dutch guitarist DAAN KLEIJN JAZZ TRIO joins us on SUN 21ST. After having made himself a name on the Jazz scene of New York, we are now happy to welcome him to Beijing for a very special, intimate show.


More About: Daan Kleijn


“Daan is one of the most talented and promising guitarists I have heard in a very long time. He has all the tools to be an important part of the jazz scene in NYC and around the world“, Peter Bernstein


Bright lights, big heights and a slight breeze that’s always around.. It’s 8 p.m. and the bustling crowds are looking for a comfortable place to have dinner and enjoy some live music. A young man with a guitar on his back and an amp on a cart behind him, finds his way through the crowds at Bleecker street. Three years ago he crossed the Atlantic to move to the center of music and art, New York City. Tonight he is part of that center and in a slight hurry to get to his performance in one of New York’s fine jazz clubs…


Supported by the Sena Music Production Fund, Daan released his debut album, TRIO, in December 2013. Together with drummer Joost van Schaik and bassist Tobias Nijboer he recorded a “brilliant debut-album” (De Telegraaf), consisting of original tunes and carefully chosen standards. The CD has since received rave-reviews by the international press.


Daan was born in Groningen, the Netherlands, where he developed a love for music at an early age, resulting in winning the VNO-NCW Talent Award and the Gasterra Talent Award. He recorded, co-wrote and produced two full length CD’s with the band ROOS., touring extensively through out the Netherlands. In addition Daan played numerous concerts with renown jazz artists like Benny Golson, Alex Sipiagin, Sam Yahel, Kenny Werner and Billy Drummond. In 2011 Daan moved to New York to pursue his master’s degree at New York University, fully supported by a scholarship from the Huygens Talent Program. It wasn’t long before Daan started performing at some of the city’s major jazz venues (Blue Note Jazz Club, Bar Next Door, Kitano). He also became a sought-after studio guitarist and has recorded over a dozen CD’s as a sideman along-side jazz greats like Rodney Green, Ron McClure, Mike Rodriquez and many more..

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Daan Kleijn Jazz Trio
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Apr 24 19:30 pm -
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RMB 100 – RMB 380

If Huun-Huur-Tu is a glimpse at Tuvian traditional music at its purest then Sainkho Namtchylak is a glimpse at the future. At 61 years old, the artist is a khoomei renegade, a female singer whose voice spans seven octaves (from a throaty demonic growl to a high-pitched falsetto) who has since used her gift to take the traditional music of Tuva and bring it into a new era.


For more information or to buy tickets, visit: https://www.247tickets.com/t/sainkho-kosmos-naked-spirit-concert-beijing

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Sainkho Kosmos: Naked Spirit Concert
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Apr 20 21:00 pm -
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RMB 80, RMB 60 (advance)

Head to DDC on Saturday, April 20th for a band showcase. Country rock act The Flood, blues group Boogie Man, rockers PROST and noise punk/experimental rock group UNIT take the stage at DDC for a night of rock in all its forms.


For more information or to buy tickets, visit: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/KxFTd-oVNAYiKTzMvPgHdg

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The Flood, Boogie Man, Prost & Unit at DDC
Apr 11 21:00 pm - 0:00 am
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Join us as Beijing's only and wonderful A Cappella choir JING SING will come show their eclectic selection of vocals only songs ranging from last year's pop hits to timeless doo-wop classics and some extra Hakuna Matata fun! 


Thursday, 9pm, FREE


More About: Jing Sing


京Sing was founded in 2014 when a group of friends who loved to jam together realized they were all much more into singing than playing. They decided to ditch the instruments and go a cappella, resulting in an international group of harmony-loving singers with repertoire ranging from jazz to choral to Pentatonix covers. Our performances are on a 'pop-up' basis at venues all around Beijing.


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Jing Sing A Cappella
Jing Sing A Cappella
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Apr 14 19:30 pm - 23:00 pm
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40 RMB

TIME: SUNDAY, APRIL 14th, 7.30PM AOTU STUDIO


TICKET: 40 RMB


Last October, Subtropical Asia was invited by Dafu Records to make a documentary about the legendary Damo Suzuki, former singer of krautrock band Can, and his first ever China tour. During the editing process, everytime we listened to the dialogue with Damo or thought back on every detail of our time with him, we were inspired—we realized that we weren't only making a documentary related to the tour, but also telling the personal philosophy and lifestyle of Damo Suzuki, a cosmopolitan which has traveled 50 years around the world. In a larger sense, it’s a documentary about new beginnings, creative independence and the magic of being in the present.


On April 14th, we will be screening the world premiere of 'Journey: Improvised - Damo Suzuki's China Tour And Beyond'. Following the screening and a Q&A, they will be performances from an eceltic group of musicans and artists including Viola Yip, a New York-based experimental composer, performer, sound artist and instrument builder; Emily Wong, a choreographer, and contemporary dance improviser ; and guitar demi-god Li Jianhong, whose drone-heavy, shredful, gut-wailing brand of guitar improv is always a wonder to behold.



ABOUT THE ARTISTS


Viola Yip


生于香港,现在生活在纽约。她是一位实验作曲家,表演者,声音艺术家,乐器制造者。目前她的兴趣包括,基于乐器制造的音乐创作,以及基于身体的作曲家/表演者探索。Viola进行声音/影像表演,利用电流和灯泡的振动作为声源,探索光和声音振动之间在共同领域中的音乐可能性。



作为一名作曲家/表演者,她最近的作品在纽约、密苏里、芝加哥、圣地亚哥、波士顿、匹兹堡、洛杉矶、香港、吉隆坡、贝尔法斯特、曼彻斯特、阿姆斯特丹、科隆、杜塞尔多夫、柏林等地上演。



A Native of Hong Kong, Viola Yip is a New York-based experimental composer, performer, sound artist and instrument builder. Her recent interests fall on creating her music from instrument building to exploring her composer-performer body as a creative site.



As a composer-performer, her recent work have appeared New York City, Missouri, Chicago, San Diego, Boston, Bowling Green (Ohio), Ithaca, Saratoga Springs, Pittsburgh, Los Angelos, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Belfast, Manchester, Huddersfield, Madeira, Amsterdam, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Berlin and Damrstadt.



Viola will be performing an audiovisual set, using the electric flow and the vibrations of flickering light bulbs as a sound source, and exploring the musical possibilities in the common ground between the vibrations of light and sound.





Emily Wong


黄睿明



一位现于北京工作的自由舞者,舞蹈教师,和编舞。工作包括跟现代舞,舞蹈即兴和接触即兴有关的演出,研究项目和公作坊。她是一位从英国皇家芭蕾舞学院畢业的專业导师。跟随着她对现代舞的兴趣,她在英国University of Chichester取得舞蹈表演的碩士学位,在欧洲跟着学校舞团巡演。在那个时候,她也开始接触了接触即兴。



她喜欢舞蹈即兴,跟不同的艺术家合作,以及对探索身心学有关的专业和练习有兴趣。移到北京后,她分别在剧场和其他不同的空间演出,包括自己或跟别人合作的作品。另外,她也有教导芭蕾,现代舞和接触即兴,并进行和身体运动有关的研究项目和工作坊。



She is a performer, choreographer, and dance teacher working in Beijing, mainly in the field of contemporary dance, movement improvisation and contact improvisation.She graduated from the Royal Academy of Dance, and continued her dance performance study at the University of Chichester in the UK, where she toured with the postgraduate company in Europe. She was first introduced to contact improvisation during that period.



Her main interests are movement improvisation and the somatic field where practices explore the body-mind relation, and collaborations between art forms. After moving to Beijing, she had performed in theatres, galleries and outdoor spaces both in her creations and works created with others. She also regularly teaches ballet, modern dance and contact improvisation; she also engages in movement related research projects and workshops.





LI JIANHONG


李剑鸿


吉他半神李剑鸿,领衔中国最重要的前卫音乐/即兴音乐十多年。他那沉重的吉他蜂鸣,神圣、令人畏惧的吉他即兴总是令人惊奇,他将他的吉他变成一个永恒的声音永动机,摇晃他的整个身体到层层噪音中,让你狂喜地尖叫,如同他正在向吉他之神做一场卷曲盘绕带着报复心的吉他献祭。



Guitar demi-god Li Jianhong, whose drone-heavy, shredful, gut-wailing brand of guitar improv is always a wonder to behold, who’ll turn his guitar into a perpetual motion machine of sound, swaying his entire body to the layers of noise, making you scream out in delight as he gives a curling vengeful noise sacrifice to the guitar deities above.


Listen: https://music.163.com/#/artist/album?id=3712

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Apr 25 20:30 pm -
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RMB 200, RMB 150 (advance)

Hong Kong rap pioneer Dough-Boy hits Beijing on his Good, Bad & Ugly China tour. Catch the innovative rapper at Omni Space on Thursday, April 25th, as he changes up his sound for the release of his sophomore album, Good, Bad & Ugly.


For more information or to buy tickets, visit: https://www.247tickets.com/t/dough-boy-good-bad-ugly-beijing

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Dough-Boy “Good, Bad & Ugly” China Tour
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Apr 18 20:30 pm -
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RMB 160, RMB 130 (advance)

Irish musician Eion French is better known as Talos. He’s got a devoted fanbase in Ireland, and now he’s bringing his brand of haunting alternative rock to Beijing. He’s been compared to Bon Iver and James Vincent McMorrow. See him at Omni Space on Thursday, April 18th.


For more information or for tickets, visit: https://www.247tickets.com/t/talos-beijing

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Talos China Tour
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RMB 100 – RMB 680

The opera Les Pêcheurs de Perles, a co-production of the NCPA and Staatsoper Berlin, comes to the NCPA in May. Discover the beauty and tragedy of Verdi’s breakthrough opera, composed twelve years before Carmen, and the work for which he created the Pearl Fisher’s Duet.


For more information or for tickets, visit: https://www.247tickets.com/t/les-pecheurs-de-perles-beijing

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Les Pêcheurs de Perles
May 9 19:30 pm -
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The Sinfonia Rotterdam appears at the NCPA under the direction of Conrad van Alphen. They’ll play a programme of works by Haydn, including selections from his Farewell Symphony, Surprise Symphony and Hunt Symphony, and his Concerto for Flute & Oboe.


For more information or to buy tickets, visit: https://www.247tickets.com/t/sinfonia-rotterdam-beijing

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Sinfonia Rotterdam
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