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Eden: Untamed Planet is now available on Astro. Music Press Asia
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BBC Earth Is Now Available on Astro Malaysia’s Pay TV

BBC Earth, BBC Lifestyle and BBC Studios’ on-demand channels BBC Brit and BBC First have launched on Malaysia’s Astro. BBC Studios has finally extended its relationship with Malaysia’s pay TV giant Astro. Launching together its linear channels BBC Earth and BBC Lifestyle with on-demand channels BBC First and BBC Brit. Astro made BBC Earth and BBC Lifestyle was made available from 15 September, with BBC First and BBC Brit launched 15 October. BBC Studios programs – Joanna Lumley’s as travel host, Jamie Oliver’s cooking show and Colin Farrell’s series The…

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November Recommend World Music. Music Press Asia
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World Music Album Selections November 2021

What makes November this year so special? In the World Music Charts, we’re seeing some spectacular songs and albums charting for very good reasons. Its hard work rarely recognised in the mainstream music world is making transcendental effects. And we’re highlighting these spectacular work here at Music Press Asia simply because it is too good to ignore. Monsieur Doumani’s Pissourin…

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Purbayan Chatterjee Release Diwali Single. Music Press Asia
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Purbayan Chatterjee: A Diwali Release

After a huge release of the album Unbounded (Abaad) just two months ago, Purbayan Chatterjee has a new single. Today, he released Raga SahasraDeep, a self-composed Raga composed in 2020. As we clicked to watch the video on YouTube, our eyes were immediately focused on the lights. Inspiring the visual of this Raga is the 1,000 lamps being lit at…

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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,…

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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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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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Blood of the Blue Creative Century Entertainment. Music Press Asia
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Taiwanese Film: ‘Blood of the Blue’

Environment highlight: Ocean Continuing our efforts to highlight the awareness of the ocean on the Environment theme. We’ve selected the film Blood of the Blue / 東經北緯, a Taiwanese production for our October film selection. The story goes like this. More than 300 years ago, the legendary pirate captain Yen buried a large amount of treasure in the blue sea.…

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An ongoing exhibition at the National Museum of China features a selection of reproductions of Dunhuang murals by the late Zhang Daqian. Music Press Asia
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Dunhuang Murals Inspire New Music Composition

The Dunhuang murals is one of China’s greatest discovery of the present era. A new musical Flying Apsaras has recently made its concert debut in Shanghai. Inspired directly by the cultural treasures, the concert included fourteen songs that writer Guan Shan and composer San Bao created especially. Chinese musician Li Dun also collaborated with composer San Bao in this project.…

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Music Press Asia Recommends Monday Music Playlist
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Monday Best Music Selection For Work

Let’s cut to the chase. Monday is all about being direct and multi-tasking. If you have a whole week’s worth of work waiting, who wouldn’t want to be in a good mood on Monday? But that is the challenge we’re addressing today, a Monday. You see whether you’re multi-tasking or reading, you’d need specially curated music to back you up.…

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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…

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