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++ astro
can caravan ++ experimental dental school
++ demerit ++sabot
++ pk14 ++ limited express (has gone?)
++ NOWnow ++ stalwart
++ plat ypus ++ zu
++ can can heads ++ hinterlandt
++ kroko ++ baseball
++ carsick cars ++ the
thaw ++ pure evil trio
++ ni-hao! ++ the
sprouts ++ hira hira ++ pay colour
++ imodium ++ scul hazzards ++ the
night crash ++ crux ++ pazahora
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carsick cars consists of shou wang (22) on vocals, guitar, and loops,
li qing (23) on percussion, and li weisi (22) on bass guitar. the band
was formed in march, 2005, when shou wang, a student at the beijing
institute
of technology, met li weisi and li qing at the rehearsal space of mutual
friends. by may they had performed their first concert at a party for
a small group of friends and by the end of the year were performing
in beijing clubs. their first cd was recorded in the spring of 2007
and was produced by legendary p.k.14 frontman yang haisong.
their sound, influenced by the drone of velvet underground, suicide
and sonic youth as well as by the textures and structures of steve reich
and glenn branca, is a combination of brilliantly-textured roar and
hard open chords that are used to explore and tear apart their beautifully
crafted songs. amidst the explosive noise and feedback it sometimes
takes a while to realize how well they write songs, although this has
not been lost on the many beijing musicians who are their fans –
carsick cars is probably the underground band in china whose songs are
most often performed by other local bands.
as befits what is one of the most admired chinese underground bands
in the world, carsick cars has performed widely in china and abroad.
they have filled clubs in all the major cities in china and, in august
and september of 2007, sonic youth, who has called them their favorite
band in china, asked carsick cars to tour with them in europe. following
their london show, the band was invited to perform at the steirischer
herbst festival in austria in october 2007, and at all tomorrow’s
parties in london in may 2008.
along with their band, the members of carsick cars have been very active
in a number of other music projects. shou wang is a founding member
of experimental duo white, whose first cd was produced by einstürzende
neubauten founder blixa bargeld in berlin in may 2007. in february 2006
he performed on the recording of glenn branca’s symphony
13, and has performed several times with composers elliott sharp and
alvin curran. in july 2007 after performing at a festival in new york
he was asked to join these are powers in the recording of their second
cd. li qing and li weisi are founding members of rock trio snapline,
whose debut album was produced by pil drummer martin atkins for his
invisible records label. they have both performed with pigface and as
part of white. in addition li qing has performed with elliott sharp.
the band has been extensively written up in the chinese, english, german,
swedish and american press and has been featured in television shows
in the us, germany, australia and new zealand. in september 2007 they
were listed by that’s beijing as one of the top ten bands in china,
and shou wang was listed in a june 2007, rolling stone china article
as one of the country’s four most innovative guitarists.
