Anji Bee has played a number of my tracks on her various podcasts and did an interview with me after the release of Chill Dynasty. Besides being a prolific podcaster, Anji is also a singer and half of the duo Lovespirals. I’ve just completed a remix of Lovespirals’ version of the blues classic Motherless Child. Their orginal version is destined for a new Lovespirals release expected in October. My Long Way From Home Mix will, in turn, find it’s way onto my remix album Asian Variations. Anji and partner Ryan Lum talk about their new album and Motherless Child in the latest episode of their Chillin’ with Lovespirals podcast. They also discuss my remix and play a snippet of it as a play-out to the podcast. Seems Anji and Ryan would both love to visit Taiwan some time. It would be great to meet them in person – hope we can make this happen somehow!

This coming Saturday, I’ll be performing at the Hoping for hoping Peacefest near Longtan. This annual event raises money for charities and features a host of local bands. If you’re somewhere in Taiwan this weekend, consider coming out to Longtan for this one.

I’m performing at an SL Relay For Life event tomorrow (May 20th) to benefit the American Cancer Society. Proceedings start at 1:30 pm (PDT) and I’ll be on between 2:45 and 4:00 pm. Here’s more info about the event. And here’s an SLURL to the Nantucket Yacht Club. It’s for a worthy cause, so please donate freely.

 I’ll be doing a two hour show at the Coke Pavilion in SL as part of the Virtual Thirst concert series from 5-7 PM (PDT),  tomorrow May 15th. Blowing for two hours straight would leave me a bit winded, so I’ll preview the upcoming Asian Variations album in the first hour and do my set in the second. Come on over for the first public airing of my latest remix: André van Rensburg – You And Me (Under The Speaker Tree Mix).

Em. and I made a day last Sunday of attending the T.K. Rock Festival here in Taichung. This 2 day festival showcases some of the best of Taiwan’s rock and hiphop acts on five stages. The T.K. of the title refers to the term “TaiKe” – it used to be a derogatory term for Taiwanese locals, but it has since been rehabilitated and is now used with pride to mean the same.

Jui-Chuan Chang performed on Saturday, but unfortunately I couldn’t attend – maybe just as well, since we had the first heavy rain of the year on Saturday and it poured for most of the afternoon and evening. According to friends who did go on Saturday, the rain did little to dampen spirits though – apparently A-Mei, who headlined Saturday’s proceedings, was amazing.

On Sunday, though, I managed to catch Kou Chou Ching. They did my remix version of Tiu Tiu Ssu Hsiang Chi – how cool to see it performed live and on a kick-ass sound system to boot. My favorite performers of the evening were F.I.R. and Wu Bai. I saw Wu Bai for the first time at last year’s TK Rock – to my mind, he more than deserves his title as Taiwan’s Emperor of Rock. He’s a Class A showman with some awesome tunes!

Here’s a vid. of Kou Chou Ching performing my remix:
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