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CD/DVD Releases: Blixa Bargeld Produces Debut From Beijing Underground Phenoms White

Posted on Monday, February 16 @ 01:00:00 UTC by nightowl

White is the self-titled debut album from one of the most talked about bands to emerge from the Beijing underground in recent years. Produced by Blixa Bargeld at Einst?rzende Neubauten studios in Berlin, White is the starting point for a more widespread recognition of new music from China, and sets the benchmark for all others who follow.

Together, Shenggy (KORG MS-20, drums, percussion, sampler, vocals) and Shou Wang (guitar, organ, pedals, dome theremin, vocals) have conjured a sound - part electronic shimmer, part cosmic industrialism - that arrives like a nocturnal transmission, complete with advertisements and radio static, through a neon rain.



The journey from Beijing to Berlin and beyond has been an exhilarating one. White began life in the winter of 2005 at Dos Kolegas, a small independently-minded club crouched on the outskirts of Beijing, in the shadow of the city's financial district. At that time, with China's race toward Olympian perfection already underway, the panorama was comprised as much of construction sites as gleaming towers - perhaps a fitting backdrop in hindsight, as from the first squall that shivered through the amps that night, White have been hurtling toward their own fixed point of destiny with equally relentless verve and assurance.

At 26, Shenggy is something of a veteran in the speed-of-light world of Beijing's underground. She spent seven years as the mainstay of combustible all-girl punkniks Hang on the Box, helping to steer them from their Oi! roots to the multi-layered urbane glamour of 2006's Shanghai. Shou Wang, three years Shenggy's junior, is the leader of Beijing power-trio Carsick Cars, rising stars in their own right after performances at All Tomorrow's Parties and support slots with Sonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr. As White, they have collaborated with the likes of FM3, Elliott Sharp, Alvin Curran and Manuel G?ttsching.

[Source: Howlin' Wuelf Media]

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