MoShang - Chill Out Music - Musician and Producer

A bunch of my tracks from Chill Dynasty and Made in Taiwan are being used in a HD Discovery Channel series entitled Fantastic Festivals of the World currently airing in the US on Discovery’s HD Theatre. The two episodes featuring my music are 1. The Mid Autumn Lantern Festival – Hong Kong and 16. Lunar New Year – Hong Kong. I’ve been informed that a non-HD version will be going out to something like 23 countries in the near future. I do hope we get to see it here in Taiwan – I’d get quite a kick out of it, seeing as I’m a bit of a Discovery Channel junky anyways.

I was introduced to the music of Eric Truffaz whilst doing a mindless data capturing job back in South Africa drawing roads onto satellite images for GPS systems. Yawn. The single perk of the job was that you could listen to music whilst doing it; I had Bending New Corners on endless repeat…

Fast forward four years and Truffaz is playing a free gig in my new hometown at the annual Taichung Jazz Festival. I arrived tired and slightly out of it and was holding thumbs the live experience would live up to all I was hoping for. I need not have worried though, the band was awesome. At times shivers of pleasure good. Wish more people would have danced, though…

If you read French (or have a link to Babelfish handy) you can read Truffaz’ Diary entry about his visit to Taiwan. Nothing about the the gig I saw though.

Lucky number 13. Looking forward to hearing the other artists on this. Kou is my neighbor!

Anji Bee of the band Lovespirals hosts a really cool chillout podcast, entitled The Chillcast. When Anji recently contacted me regarding an interview, I was of course flattered and only too happy to accept the invitation to talk about my music. The Chillcast Special Feature: MoShang was released yesterday and kudos to Anji for doing a really professional job with it. Anji plays a whole bunch of tracks from Chill Dynasty and Made in Taiwan – since it’s an interview, I blab over most of it, though. My thanks again to Anji – this kind of exposure on the web is really invaluable to us independents.

The interview also coincides really nicely with the release of Chill Dynasty on iTunes. I was impatiently waiting for it to become available, but to be fair, iTunes must be receiving a huge amount of new material daily and some delay is understandable – definitely acceptable in this case. I mentioned CD Baby’s delivery of the album to iTunes in an earlier post, if you’re interested in how long it took…

Of course, the album remains available in CD and digital download format from The Chill Shop.