More Yaogun Internationally

So in addition to the news that Cui Jian is finally available in digital form properly and internationally (check iTunes, Spotify and other purveyors of digital sounds streaming and selling), there is more yaogun about to make waves outside of China…

Cui Jian Spotify HomepageSo while Cui Jian makes a digital mark (here he is, at left, on Spotify’s home page), others will make a mark more personal.

Here’s where I once again, and not likely for the last time, invoke the Sichuan-based Baishui, who already turned heads, and ears, during his brief American foray. There’s more where that came from though…

News comes via Beijing Daze that Painkiller magazine, the long-running metal music magazine and promoters of many of China’s favourite international heavy metal shows, continue their partnership with Germany’s massive Wacken Festival. This year’s competition between a half dozen hopefuls just went down, and Nine Treasures won the hanggaitrip to Germany to represent China at the world’s most prominent metal gathering.

Hanggai, that Mongolian folk-rock outfit who travels far, continues to announce international dates: WOMAD Spain, Holland, the Lincoln Center (NYC) and more comes via the band’s Facebook page.

Closer to (my) home… Reggae outfit Long Shen Dao 龙神道 aka LSD is heading to Toronto’s Luminato festival to play alongside British reggae heavy-hitter Maxi Priest (Luminato will also be showcasing a Chinese opera – Feng Yi Ting – as directed by famed filmmaker/theatre director Atom Egoyan, which adds a different kind of Chinese flavour to the proceedings). Check out a preview of what you might expect live from this live clip of the band in action at a recent Beijing show:

…And surely there is more to come…