The song, Smile, started out as a sort of homage to the 60s, a time of change and rebellion, swinging London, The Beatles, dodgy...

Yaogun Yinyue (shake roll music) really started to gain traction in China during the '80s, supported by the likes of Cui Jian (now...

This album has taken nine months to complete. Nine people provided the inspiration for the songs. Nine musicians contributed. It will be...

FM3 Buddha Machine One of the founding fathers of ambient music [Brian Eno] supposedly bought six of these machines. He is widely cited...

Talaandig Tribe (Mindanao) The Talaandig Tribe is comprised of some 10,000 people. Their home is deep in the heart of the mountainous,...

Hugejiletu, founder of Ajinia, set out his vision right at the beginning of 2009 when the band was first formed: retain his Mongolian...

I first met and performed with Song Yuzhe in Tibet in 2008 - he suddenly appeared in the only drinking hole that was still open in Lhasa...

FM3 is Christiaan Virant and Zhang Jian, a duo that create sublime sounds that, to paraphrase Timothy Leary, are ideal to turn in,...

An inordinate number of years in the making, album number two is sprouting wings with only three songs left to produce and (as per usual)...

In 1985 the UK pop group, ‘Wham’ played in front of over 10,000 people at the Workers’ Stadium in Beijing, one of the first Western...