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FEN
FEN (Far East Network) is an improvised music project group made up of Japanese Otomo Yoshihide, Chinese Yan Jun and Singaporean Yuen Chee Wai. FEN made its debut at MIMI Festival in Marseilles, France in 2008. Following its debut, FEN has performed extensively throughout Europe and all across Asia, including a few times in China.
From FEN’s 2015 Japan tour, Yuen started including the electric guitar into his repertoire, Yan simplified his setup by using just a simple feedback chain, and Yoshihide still used his guitar, for performance. This concoction of a mix between the rock/jazz dual guitars, electronics and computer noise, resulted in a form that vacillates between traditional melodies to blues chords, where “one possibly takes leads or without leads,” became the recent iteration of FEN’s sound.
FEN’s activities explore aesthetic possibilities in new forms of music which are different from the Western world.
Time: 8:30 p.m., June 11
Tickets: 120 yuan
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Pumpkins
Chinese band Pumpkins was founded in 2009. The band is fascinated by some “old things” and is willing to call itself “old-school punk.”
Time: 8:30 p.m., June 13
Tickets: 70 yuan
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Zhou Yunpeng
Zhou Yunpeng is a poet and folk singer. He lost the ability to see at the age of 9. He has released five albums, published three books and composed soundtracks for two movies. He was awarded Leader of Young Man by Southern Figures Week, Best Folk Singer and Best Lyric Writer by Chinese Media Music and his poem “The Wordless Love” was awarded Best Poem by People Literature in 2011.
Time: 8 p.m., June 14
Tickets: 120 yuan
Venue: B10 Live, North Area, OCT-LOFT, Nanshan District (南山区华侨城创意文化园北区B10现场)
Metro: Line 2 to Qiaocheng North Station (侨城北站), Exit B