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Elevation Worship Performed at GMA Dove Awards 2021. Music Press Asia
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Gospel Music Association 52nd Dove Awards

On October 22 (Friday), The GMA Dove Awards fifty-second edition was exclusively aired on TBN (Trinity Broadcast Network) and simulcasted on SiriusXM The Message. Honouring outstanding achievements and excellence in Christian Music since 1969, this year’s GMA Dove Awards was recorded in Nashville. It featured performances by artists including Dante Bowe, CAIN, Lauren Daigle, Hope Darst, Elevation Worship, The Isaacs, Maverick City Music, We The Kingdom, Natalie Grant, KB feat. Matt Redman, Koryn Hawthorne feat. Donnie McClurkin, and many more. Additionally, the Dove Awards also highlighted presenters including Chris Tomlin,…

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Leaf Yeh Birth and Death Album Review. Music Press Asia
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Leaf Yeh 葉穎: Birth & Death 生滅

Leaf Yeh has deliberated rather subserviently a subject anathema to many of us. While Birth itself observes the regeneration of new life, Death is directly the pragmatic conviction of all things mysterious and haunting. And since this celestial ultimatum cannot escape our mortal world, therefore, after-life itself takes precedence in Leaf’s expression of the present. If there’s one way how…

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Porto in Portugal to play host to Worldwide Music Expo WOMEX 2021. Music Press Asia

Portugal to Host Worldwide Music Expo WOMEX 2021

WOMEX – Worldwide Music Expo – is the most international music meeting in the world and the biggest conference of the global music scene. From the 27th to the 31st of October, the expo debuts its first Portuguese edition in Porto, Portugal. Along with the trade fair to be held at Alfândegam, WOMEX also features talks, films and showcase concerts…

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Leaf Yeh Set to Sing at World Music Festival Taiwan. Music Press Asia

Leaf Yeh To Perform At 2021 World Music Festival

Taiwan World Music Festival returns to Taipei this weekend with an explosive program featuring exciting acts from the region. Singer-Songwriter Leaf Yeh has recently attracted major buzz in Taiwan and is gaining attention worldwide. Her adventurous mixture of pop, electronic, and world music is uniquely diverse. In order to create a fully immersive world so originally hers, she mixes traditional…

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Fingers Cross EP Early Birth Release by Gerpfast Records. Music Press Asia

Gerpfast Records To Release Thai EP

Main collaborators include Kittipat Knoknark (music and lyrics), Sutthipat Kunakorn, and Parinya Imnoy (mix and mastering). Gerpfast Records, an Indonesian music label, collaborates with Thai girl group Fingers Cross to debut their EP ‘Early Birth’. Shoegaze always has a new transformation, from the way to create the sound or to perform it as the years go by. One-of-a-kind Idolgaze group…

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R&B trio Khaizhen CLARY zeauk released Way Up. Music Press Asia
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Southeast Asia Release: A Nonchalant Blithe of Youth

R&B Music Release: A year after the release of their first collaborative R&B single, ‘Mad At You’, trio – zeauk, CLARY and Khai Zhen – reunited to release ‘Way Up’, their second collaborative single. The single’s music video, premiered on 24 October 2021, defines the set of values they held in high esteem. The lyrics speak loudly of their incurious…

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Interview with Mastaneh Ali Montazami Mona Kaveh Ahangari. Music Press Asia

A Performance Merging Two Civilizations 5/5

Return to the previous page 6. What are MASTANEH’s plans for the future? And why is it so important in the historical and cultural context that these instruments and their sounds are preserved? MK Ahangari: Actually, music is an important part of each culture that must be preserved and also develop for the future. The cultural exchanges through music are…

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Interview with Mastaneh Ali Montazami Mona Kaveh Ahangari. Music Press Asia

A Performance Merging Two Civilizations 4/5

Return to the previous page 5. In another live recording of 45 daf musicians, we saw a passionate performance of traditional drums played in unison. Their legs were stamping the ground and the hands moving in circular motion. Has this movement always been a traditional way of playing the DAF? Tell us about the context of this performance of why…

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Interview with Mastaneh Ali Montazami Mona Kaveh Ahangari. Music Press Asia

A Performance Merging Two Civilizations 3/5

Return to the previous page 3. Drum and string instruments have always played a huge part in traditional music worldwide, and most recently over the decade on the Silk Road. What sort of role is it playing in Taiwan today? MK Ahangari: Well, string instruments are the most important part of Chinese music and on the other hand, people of…

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Interview with Mastaneh Ali Montazami Mona Kaveh Ahangari. Music Press Asia

A Performance Merging Two Civilizations 2/5

Return to the previous page 2. What truly captivated us in the beginning, even before we heard the music, was an ensemble using a Chinese instrument – pipa, and two Iranian – Barbat (oud) and daf. Tell us why these instruments and their sounds go so well together? A Montazami: Although Pipa is a Chinese traditional musical instrument all these…

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