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Seven Worlds One Planet Asia. Music Press Asia
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Asia: A World of the Rarely Seen

While conservation in Asia goes all the way back to its disappearing mangroves and increasing agriculture of palm oil, there is much diversity in the animal kingdom too. From Brown bears roaming remote Russian volcanoes on the Kamchatka Peninsula, and orangutans climbing high into the trees in the Indonesian rainforests in search of mango fruit. Walrus gather in huge numbers in the frozen north, only to risk falling to their deaths after climbing sea cliffs to escape polar bears. From yeti-like monkeys in the mountain forests of China to the…

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Music Press Asia Book of the Month Heidi Shamsuddin
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Nusantara: A Sea of Tales by Heidi Shamsuddin

Heidi Shamsuddin’s newest anthology offers some retellings and deeper insights of beloved folk stories gathered from Malaysia and across the Nusantara region. Following the success of her children’s book The Malay Tale of the Pig King in 2020 (which retells the Indonesian tale of Hikayat Raja Babi), Heidi returns to her passion of telling fairy tales from South-East Asia. A…

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Elephant Gym at Kaoshiung Harbour Taiwan Beats SXSW. Music Press Asia
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Taiwan Beats Showcase at SXSW Online 2022

A musical showcase completely unique to Taiwan. Showcasing cultural venues including the Wufeng Lin Family Mansion, the electric flower cars used for religious purposes, the Chuang Mei Theater, the mysterious electronic music venue Pawnshop, Kaohsiung harbor, and more. The showcase starts with Sorry Youth set at Wufeng Lin Family Mansion and Garden. Playing alternative music with local flavor, Sorry Youth…

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Borneo Jazz 2018 live. Music Press Asia
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Borneo Jazz Festival Returns to Sarawak

Jazz music festival returns in a hybrid format to celebrate diversity and innovation. Borneo Jazz festival is one of Southeast Asia’s longest-running international jazz festivals. Themed “Jazz in The Jungle”, the Borneo Jazz festival will be held from 24 to 26 June 2022 in a hybrid format to reach out to the greater jazz-loving community worldwide. The physical concert will…

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Hong Kong Hymn Society. Music Press Asia
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A Hymn Lecture on the rise of the Oxford Movement

The rise of the Oxford Movement in England and the Westward Movement in the United States in the 19th century brought countless colorful hymns to the church. Among them, the Kentucky Harmony and the Sacred Harp are the representatives of the poetry collection, and some shape notes are created for the congregation to sing. Dr. Xie Linfanglan is a well-known…

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Easter Weekend playlist w Monica Tong. Music Press Asia
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Classical Easter Music Selection: Editor’s Choice 2022

The religious festival to celebrate Easter marks a real dichotomy between joy and grief, life and death, beginnings and endings. The Easter narrative has been commemorated in some of the greatest classical works of all time. From immortalising the ecclesiastical weight of the crucifixion, the passion of the resurrection, to the jubilation of the vernal equinox — discover our selection…

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Judy Wu Natures Whispering Album Review. Music Press Asia
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The Nature’s Whispering review – Judy Wu has a flow for the natural world

The stories of the natural world and diversity are told in this introspectively lively but organic album by Judy Wu. Worldly, Taiwan-based music company Wind Music here gives us Judy Wu’s transcendental album. Composed by Judy Wu in collaboration with some of Taiwan’s veteran producers and creatives, Nature’s Whispering 萬籟的絮語 instinctively has somehow transformed how we perceive the language of…

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Linda Lindas to perform at Head in the Clouds. Music Press Asia
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Linda Lindas Performed LIVE at LA Central Library

Teen punk band Linda Lindas returned to the library to perform for the band’s Tiny Desk [home] concert. Playing at the Los Angeles Central Library this time, the band members put together a 15-minute program and take turns singing. Starting with the song “Growing” sung by guitarist Lucia, the title track to the band’s debut album. Picture a library. One…

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Quincy Jones documentary by Netflix. Music Press Asia
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Top 8 Music Films & Documentaries To Watch 2022

Sheryl Sheryl Crow has seen it all. In terms of music industry highs and lows, she epitomizes the huge personality that began from the gut-wrenching songs she writes. Spilling her guts about it all for the camera, documentarian Amy Scott lets Crow lead us through decades worth of hits and misses, triumph and trauma, health and sickness. In all earnestness,…

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New Regency Orchestra to perform at La Linea 2022. Music Press Asia
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New Regency Orchestra Returns To La Linea London’s Latin Music Festival

La Linea will feature artists from across the eclectic and thriving Latin music scene in venues across the UK capital from 21 April to 2 May. London’s Latin Music Festival — La Linea — will return this spring featuring New Regency Orchestra (NRO), a twenty-piece big band, as its festival finale program on 2 May at Hackney’s Earth Hall. NRO…

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