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ABAO Taiwan's indigenous artists goes mainstream in 2020. Music Press Asia
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A Beginner’s Guide to Taiwan’s Music Scene 2021

The staff at Music Press Asia has eyes on Taiwan this quarter. This list isn’t an exhaustive list to know- or hear-all. But serves the curiosity to increase the agility of the mind. Who wants to rush for Taiwan anyway? Here’s why Taiwan is still a powerful hubbub of Asia’s music entertainment scene and the Mandarin world. Taiwan’s tribal community over the last few decades is a story of grit revival. Its ancient sounds together with its instruments represents a cultural heritage documented and distributed across the world. In its…

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Music & Culture to play a big role on the Silk Road. Music Press Asia
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Culture & Music To Play A Big Role On Belt And Road

While many more songwriters believe that there may be commercial sense to how things are being run in the digitalized world, the purpose of music making remains best performed in its cultural sense, I mean LIVE. Why? To transcend creative perspective and understanding of people from the specific communities and tribes to the world. Tourism wouldn’t come to a halt…

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Music & Culture to play a big role on the Silk Road. Music Press Asia

Culture & Music To Play A Big Role On Belt And Road

China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is the most ambitious infrastructure plan in world history. Connecting the Chinese city of Guangzhou to Venice by sea and Beijing to Brussels by land, this massive undertaking already involves almost seventy countries (including twenty four in Europe) that comprise two-thirds of the global population. The BRI is a multi-pronged plan that reimagines global…

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The BBC Proms, after playing to an empty hall last year, will host audience at full capacity and unsocially distanced in 2021. Music Press Asia.
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BBC Proms 2021: The 7 Best Events To Watch

The BBC Proms returns to the Royal Albert Hall this year for a summer of live music, as it has done every year since 1941. Carrying the Covid-19 theme, one prom – the opera on 16 August – will focus on painfully topical theme about loss, separation, and coming together. Featuring fifty two concerts over forty four days, the Proms is also hosting thirty orchestras and…

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City Pop Records Released Andrew Lambrou single. Music Press Asia

City Pop Records Released Andrew Lambrou’s Single

While the world of pop music continues to explode in this part of the world, one voice is showing resilience in the pop ballad segment. Eora/Sydney-based musician Andrew Lambrou’s talent is unmistakably apropos in a pandemic world where distrust breeds. ‘Lemonade’, following the debut of Lambrou’s first single ‘Throne’, was released in early July (last month) and is a more…

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Stream of Praise released latest single inspired by Covid-19. Music Press Asia
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Stream of Praise Released New Single, Covid-19 Inspired

Stream of Praise music ministries have recently released their latest single 盡情地微笑 Smile – 同心合一版in a collaboration with the Joshua Orchestra, Tianyun Chorus, Xindian Xingdao Club and Taipei Fuxing Church. Directly translated as ‘Because of Love, Smile to our Heart’s Content’, the title of the single was inspired by the ongoing pandemic that is just beginning its spread in Taiwan…

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Bill Bensley, Designing Paradise. Music Press Asia
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Designing Paradise with Bill Bensley

Few can match the rich works of Bill Bensley when it comes to luxury design — landscaping, interiors and architecture —  in the hospitality world. Having designed more than two hundred properties since 1989, this television series made of thirteen episodes focus on some of the resorts and hotels located specially in Southeast Asia. Behind-the-scene footage show unfinished resorts, hotels…

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AT&T Is Acquiring Time Warner. What’s Likely To Happen?

Content Distributor vs. Content Provider After a grueling 18 months since AT&T first announced its desire to acquire Time Warner in an USD$85 billion mega-merger, the drama continues when the Justice Department of the Trump’s administration sought to prevent the deal on antitrust grounds, claiming that the merger of a wireless data tech giant with one of the world’s largest…

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