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December 4, 2025

Taitung Magistrate Yao Ching-ling Taitung Spirit Festival 2025 Music Press Asia
Taiwan

Taitung to the Global Stage: Interview with Magistrate Ching-Ling Yao

Building a brand of celebration for the body, mind, and spirit, and resonance between the slow economy and local culture Located in southwestern Taiwan and surrounded by the mountains and the Pacific, Taitung has held the Taitung Spirit Festival since 2021, a therapeutic celebration which is based on the core concept of “slowness” and exclusive to Taitung. This bit of…

Gulangyu Music Festival Opens 5th Edition

On the evening of July 13, the Fifth Gulangyu Music Festival was opened in Gulangyu, Xiamen. The event featured music performances at Gangzaihou Beach, Gulangyu Music Hall, Gulangyu Organ Arts…

Gulangyu Music Festival 2024 Music Press Asia
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Music Release

When Electric Strings Do The Talking

Violinist and composer Josh Kua recently released All A Game, a new single that launched on music streaming platforms on 3 Mar. Converging violin and cyberpunk, All A Game is a fusion of hard-hitting beats, synth bass lines, and electronic violin melodies. Josh works alongside music producer Daniel Veerapen as co-producer, blending cyberpunk-inspired tracks with dark synth and synth wave…

Jay Chou Finds New Love In Art

Jay Chou has found his most recent muse in the art world. Having seen him auctioned and exhibited with Hong Kong’s fine art auction house Sotheby’s, it came as no…

Jay Chou Release new song Greatest Works of art. Music Press Asia
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Traditional

Testing The Power of the Pipa

For two nights (14 & 15 April) only, Taiwan will be revealing the fortitude of the pipa; a popular traditional stringed instrument that began its prominence during the Han Dynasty.…

Zhong Yufeng to perform the pipa at NTHC Taipei. Music Press Asia
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World music

A Performance Merging Two Civilizations

In the hope to grasp how traditional musical instruments of Central and Eastern Asia are being expressed today, Music Press Asia speaks to the co-founders of MASTANEH, a music group…

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

The Art of the Chinese Harp, Guzheng

The Chinese traditional instrument – Guzheng – is one fascinating piece of art. In another word, it is the Chinese’s most elegant creation ever existed. Over centuries, guzheng remains the…

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