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SIU2’s band members are Yin Ng (composition, Sheng, Chinese percussion, keyboard), Cass Lam (Sanxian), Jason Lau (Zheng), Peter Fan (Piano), Liang Chun Wai (Bass) and Lawrence Tsui (drumset). Through invitation by the Hong Kong Arts Festival, SIU2 performed their original music in a concert titled “Sheng It Up” in March 2008. And they have published their first album “OPEN DOOR” in the same year.
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SIU2: Shenging It Up in Hong Kong
by Ian Patterson
It shouldn't really come as a great surprise that China hasn't produced an abundance of jazz musicians, while neighboring Japan continues to turn them out at a great rate of knots, given the very different histories the two countries have lived post World War II. The traumatic Cultural Revolution, under Mao Zedong, shunned all things western, whereas Japan's rebuilding was dependent on western countries, and it was therefore wide open to cultural influences. Now, with China gradually opening up to ...
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