Graham Webster at Transpacifica is paying attention to the emerging underground music scene in Beijing. Four years ago, when I was studying at Peking University, I found it hard to find musicians who were making music I wanted to listen to. There were a few, to be sure, who mostly played angry punk or hip-hop.
There seems to be more going on nowadays. Here’s a song from an album Graham sent me by emerging freak-folk musician Xiao He (小河) called “If you Believe (如果你相信)”.
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