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SIU2, a locally bred band, presents you a novel experience of Hong Kong music with their original and unique style. Their works challenge people’s inherent concept about Chinese music and create a new genre fusing modern and traditional, Chinese and western elements. But don’t attempt to label the band as merely another crossover of rock, classical, Chinese and western music. It’s something different.

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.

Photo Courtesy of Pein Lee/Sarawak Tourism Board

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SIU2: Shenging It Up in Hong Kong

Read "SIU2: Shenging It Up in Hong Kong" reviewed 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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