#顧孟堯 Raven Gu

[fyeahcindie]

I really like this new song from 南西肯恩 Neci Ken =D

The arrangement is powerful -- at first I thought maybe they had brought in someone like 林易祺 LNiCH (fr. Vast & Hazy) to beef up their sound, but nope. The credits do have some familiar names:

Producer/Arranger: 奧利佛 Oliver (奧利佛 Oliver Ching, founder of Black Market Music Production 黑市音樂) Assistant Producer: 顧孟堯 Raven Gu (眠腦 Sleeping Brain) Music/Lead Vocals: 肯恩 Ken Chen & 南西 Neci Wei Lyrics/Acoustic Gtr: Ken Chen Vocal Producer: 謝竺晉 Chuchin Hsieh Backing Vocalist: Neci Wei Chorus Vocalists: 楊庭懿 Bebe Yang (aka *Kalabebe), 徐靖玟 ChingWen, 知更 John Stoniae, 里鳳・馬耀 Lyvon (倒車入庫 Reversing into Garage), Oliver, Raven Electric Gtr: 呂尚儒 Agao (眠腦 Sleeping Brain) Bass: 渣渣 Zha Drums: 曾景崧 Relaxx Tseng (fr. 東波 EastWave) Keys: Oliver, Raven

Full a/v credits and lyrics at YT.

The indie folk/pop duo of 鄭雅薇 Neci Wei-voc & 陳弘育 Ken Chen formed in 2017. We have posted them a few times, most recently in a collaboration with 琳誼 Ring, check it out. =)

Links:  YouTube,  南西肯恩 StreetVoice,  Wei Neci YouTube,  Spotify,  Instagram.

*We've featured Kalabebe several times, let's hear a single from last fall:

Producer/Arranger: Ten YU (Ten Yu 尤騰輝 used to be in the folk-tronic trio 他者 the other) Lyrics/Lead Voc: Kalabebe Music: Kalabebe / Ten YU (Instagram)

Credits and lyrics at YT.

Kalabebe Links: StreetVoice,  Instagram,  YouTube,  Spotify

[fyeahcindie]

Electronic rock from a band on a helluva roll:  眠腦 Sleeping Brain  =D

4th song from their 2019 debut we’ve posted in the last coupla months, check out our previous posts HERE, and HERE, and also HERE.

呂尚儒 (Agao 阿搞)-gtr/synth/harmony, 顧孟堯 Raven Gu-Lead voc/synth (also in Looking Grace 看啊! 葛瑞絲), Ral Chen 陳慶大 (大慶)-bass/keys/harmony (莉莉周她說 Lily Chou-Chou Lied), 李亮瑩 Thrissa Skala-drums (Everfor)

I’m just gonna leave this here:

https://www.sxsw.com/music/2019/

[fyeahcindie]

New MV from 眠腦 Sleeping Brain    This is the 2nd excellent song we’ve posted recently, and I’m really psyched to hear more from them!

I suggest checking out the full credits at YT, but let’s at least mention producer/co-arranger 韓立康 HLK (guitarist Likang Han from 椰子!! Coconuts & Waa Wei and Lovely Baby).  顏靜萱 Ka Ka Yen (fr. Vast & Hazy) was vocal producer/co-chorus arranger. 

呂尚儒 (Agao 阿搞)-gtr/synth/harmony, 顧孟堯 Raven Gu-Lead voc/synth (also in Looking Grace 看啊! 葛瑞絲), Ral Chen 陳慶大 (大慶)-bass/keys/harmony (also in 莉莉周她說 Lily Chou-Chou Lied), 李亮瑩 Thrissa Skala-drums (also in Everfor)

Coming up on Sept. 27th at Clapper Studio in Taipei: 眠腦 Sleeping Brain 首張專輯《裸浪》發片場. This the release show for their debut album, 裸浪 Bare Wave.  (They released an ep in 2013 with their original lineup.)

And speaking of 莉莉周她說 Lily Chou-Chou Lied, here is their newest demo, and it’s again got me wondering when we can expect a full-length debut album from them:

大慶 Ral Chen-Voc/Bass/Program (眠腦 Sleeping Brain), *楊先妤 Vio (Viona Yang)-Vocal/Percussion/Synth, 又銓 Sean Yu Chuan Chen-Drums/Perc. (also in Yellowback 野樂派)

*I recently learned that Viona used to be the drummer for 午休失眠 WSSM Band, but they went on hiatus over a year ago, and their fb page is gone. (You can check out their 6-song ep at YouTube: 午休失眠)

[fyeahcindie]

Killer cut from 眠腦 Sleeping Brain  =D  

This starts out like moody electronica, then it zooms away!

The band are: 呂尚儒 (Agao 阿搞)-gtr/chorus, 顧孟堯 Raven Gu-Lead voc/synth/chorus (also in Looking Grace 看啊! 葛瑞絲), Ral Chen 陳慶大 (大慶)-bass/keys/chorus (莉莉周她說 Lily Chou-Chou Lied), 李亮瑩 Thrissa Skala-drums (Everfor) 

Producer: 黃少雍 Huang Shao-yong (Dark Paradise Records, 林瑪黛 matelin) Assistant Producer: 林志龍 Lin Linz

Lyrics: Raven. Music: Sleeping Brain

Arrangement: 許家維 Hsu Chia-Wei (aka Waves of Doppler 都普勒浪潮) & Sleeping Brain. Chia-Wei also played synth on the track.

More links: StreetVoice,  Instagram. Their YouTube channel is 黑市音樂  (Black Market Music Production Label)

Dancers: 戴啟倫 Chi-Lun, Tai & 陳秋燁 Chiu-Yeh, Chen

Full a/v credits back at YT!

Sleeping Brain will be at 三創Clapper Studio in Taipei on September 29th.

[fyeahcindie]

New single from 倒車入庫 Reversing into Garage   =D

里鳳 Li-Fong Mayaw aka ‘Lyvon’-voc, Layne Cheng 鄭愷 aka 鄭力愷-gtr, Sadog Sato 陳融 aka ‘Rong’-gtr (SADOG), 廖育槿 Liao,Yu-Jin aka ‘Nikolai’-bass.  

Miao 喵 aka 陳銘修 Ming-Hsiu Chen (fr. BB彈 / B.B. Bomb) is credited as the drummer on this song - the band don’t list an official drummer.  張璿 Syuan Chang (ex-KurumiQ) was playing with them for some time (2018), but I don’t see her in any photos from 2019. (and her fb is closed or changed)

Some notable things in the credits: 

奧利佛 Oliver Ching (from 飢餓藝術家 The Hunger Artist and founder of Black Market Music Production 黑市音樂) is listed as Producer.  

顧孟堯 Raven Gu (from 眠腦 Sleeping Brain) is listed as Assistant Producer and Recording Engineer. Raven’s band is also on Black Market Music, as is Reversing into Garage.  

The Instruments were recorded at 玉成戲院錄音室 YuChen Cinema Studio, but Andy Baker doesn’t seem to be involved; that’s the first time I’ve noticed any recording from StudioYuChen without Andy being credited.  That’s not unusual – busy studios get work from many clients who have their own production team.  =)