If you were to close your eyes and listen to any one of Aguava (Allen Chen)’s songs, you’d easily find yourself transported to some faraway beach — sun shining, waves crashing, and with a mai tai in hand perhaps? So it was a bit surprising seeing his name on the SXSW artist roster, especially since […]
On February 9th, Japanese DJ, producer, record producer and composer MONDO GROSSO, also known as Shinichi Osawa, returned with his eponymous 8th album BIG WORLD (“Mondo Grosso” is Italian for “big world”). BIG WORLD is MONDO GROSSO’s third album since returning from a 14-year hiatus in 2017, and similar to his last two albums, Reborn […]
If you’re a frequent festival-goer, Elephante is a name that you may be all too familiar with. A Harvard graduate and one-time businessman at a global consultant firm, Elephante (Tim Wu) left it all behind in the pursuit of his one true passion — music. Taking his stage name from the expression “the elephant in […]
The Yellow River is the second-longest river in China. Starting at the Bayan Har Mountains in the Qinghai province, it flows east through nine provinces and empties into the Bohai Sea. Huang He, as it’s also known, is the world’s most silted river, estimated to have flooded over 1,500 times since the 2nd century BCE. […]
Though Krithi’s most recent summer album, Pada-Pada-Ppu (படபடப்பு), contains tracks that are free of lyrics, it is anything but silent or without a message. The nine-track album features a variety of pulses, beats, and colors from the Subcontinent to create a rhythmic repast for the ears. Indeed, the album’s name means “palpitations,” in Tamil and […]