Music

The Syndicate is hitting the Spring recharged, reinvigorated, and with a mad stack of tunes to run...the biggest bass music night in Beijing is back in full flow.

But wait... there's more: a long-overdue reunion. In April, the Syndicate welcomes our longtime bass buds, the southern powerhouse: Unchained. Without a doubt one of the fastest-growing names in Asia's bass music scene, the Unchained crew have been releasing banger after banger over the last couple of years. It's been a few years since they last rocked the hallowed halls of Dada Beijing under the Syndicate banner. Stoked to have the homies back in town.

TEST04 is a House - Disco Groove project characterized by repetitive 4/4 rhythms and a tempo of 120 to 130 BPM, taking as a reference the Chicago and UK house music scene of the 80s and 90s. 

For this edition we decide to invite one of the most interesting acts in china KAISHANDAO "Live"  from Chengdu, will be delightful how she will transport us to a new dimension with her understanding of music and experimental approach of dance music. 

4月8日，周四

Thursday, April 8

生肉 | RAW MEAT

DJ Lineup：BoringArmy, 涛/Tao

@Beijing DADA

A songwriting graduate of Berkelee College of Music, American-born Jess has been a performing resident of Beijing for nearly two decades and is recognized as one of the best jazz vocalists and singer-songwriters in China. 

American guitarist, Doug Martin, started studying music at age 12. The first few years of musical study were spent playing rock and blues guitar. In 2006 Doug began to study gypsy jazz, the jazz guitar style attributed to Belgium/French gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt and taking two introductory lessons with gypsy jazz guitarist and educator Paul Mehling. Doug hasmany great performance opportunities to meet many of the world’s top guitarists including Tommy Emmanuel, Richard Thompson, Lollo Meier, Hank Marvin, and Larry Carlton just to name a few.

Ember Swift is a Canadian musician and songwriter who has released 12 albums and 1 DVD project since 1996 through her own label “Few’ll Ignite Sound.” Her most recent album “Sticks & Stones” (2017) combines several different styles including jazz, folk, gypsy, rock, R&B, electronic, pop and even Klezmer. In 2014, Ember was the third-place national winner of the popular Chinese performance competition show entitled Mama Miya 妈妈咪呀, wowing Chinese audiences with her talent and Mandarin fluency. Ember sings in three languages (English, French, Chinese) and coupled with her signature elastic-jazz vocals, eclectic musical styles and poignant astute lyrics, this “folk” artist becomes hard to categorize but impossible to forget.

Korean jazz pianist Sejin Bae has been active on Beijing’s jazz scene over the past three years. Her traditional style is heavily influenced by her experiences from New York where she was a graduate at Queens College and studied with many jazz piano greats, as well as played at various gigs and concerts.

A young documentary filmmaker. Music is her soul food. She has become a jazz lover ever since the age of 12, when she saw a video of Esperanza Spalding performing in 2008. She is deeply influenced by jazz legends like Chet Baker, Ella Fitzgerald, Anita O’Day, Jacob Collier, Herbie Hancock etc. Also is keen on soul, funk and hip-hop music. She learns keyboard and guitar herself and has been practicing singing for years. She has gained over 100,000 followers in a Chinese Karaoke APP called Changba. In 2018, she was invited to perform at Tango Livehouse in Beijing Mars Music Festival. As a Jazz vocalist, she is active in different jam sessions and Jazz venues in Beijing. Her life experience and values highly agree with what jazz is, that is to pursue freedom up to the hilt yet within certain proper rules, to enjoy the pleasure of having creativity that only owns by human.

Rena is a senior singer active in Beijing Jazz stage. Her voice is exquisite and unique. Her impromptu syntax is rich and profound. She can sing works with great contrast across styles. In the performance activities of more than ten years, Rena has participated in many communication activities and competitions in the form of individual or band, which has been recognized by a wide range of audience and industry.

Michał Ciesielski is a composer, arranger and jazz pianist from Poland. He has composed almost 100 compositions, was awarded in several international music competitions and collaborated with many musicians as a pianist.