Liu’s ‘Milk Tea’ Blues
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Liu’s ‘Milk Tea’ Blues
People's Daily nline – Mar 1, 2008
Bustling reality gives people too much pressure and dreams are a way to escape from it. When I dream I find myself free and relaxed to do whatever I want" the 37-year-old Liu says. "The setting music and atmosphere of the concert will also be dreamy and romantic and I invite all my women friends to share a musical journey with me. " After graduating from high school in Taipei Liu studied classical music at California State University after which she joined Taiwan Rock Music starting as an assistant for Bobby Chen. Her breakthrough year was 1995 when she released her first album and started acting. Director Sylvia Chang cast Liu as the lead in "Xiao Yu". Her performance won her the Best Actress award at the Asia Pacific Movie Festival in 1995… When I dream I find myself free and relaxed to do whatever I want" the 37-year-old Liu says. "The setting music and atmosphere of the concert will also be dreamy and romantic and I invite all my women friends to share a musical journey with me. " After graduating from high school in Taipei Liu studied classical music at California State University after which she joined Taiwan Rock Music starting as an assistant for Bobby Chen. Her breakthrough year was 1995 when she released her first album and started acting. Director Sylvia Chang cast Liu as the lead in "Xiao Yu". Her performance won her the Best Actress award at the Asia Pacific Movie Festival in 1995. Though Liu’s music career didn’t start as well it did prosper eventually.
Down memory lane Cassettes on their way out
Hindu – Mar 1, 2008
And the love story ends on a happy note. Fond memories Caught in a world of e-sounds and the paraphernalia of i-pods MP3s and CDs audio cassettes are now a thing of a past. But for music lovers listening to audio cassettes is a different trip down memory lane. Call it old world charm or nostalgia they love it. For young music director Dharan the first thing that comes to his mind at the mention of cassettes is “Pudhu Vellai Mazhai” from “Roja”. “What an extraordinary composition. After ‘Roja’ I don’t remember listening to any songs on cassettes” he adds… “What an extraordinary composition. After ‘Roja’ I don’t remember listening to any songs on cassettes” he adds. Along with Dharan’s collection of some 1000 audio cassettes of old English country songs classical jazz blues and the Bee Gees of the 70s and 80s there are a whole lot of cassettes with tunes he composed and recorded on a Sony tape recorder in his school days. “Though I have transferred all the music to CDs listening to my raw compositions on cassettes is a different experience” he says. Music lovers say the fading out act of cassettes was gradual. But in the last three years it has been drastic. “Today the takers are just a handful of the older generation and homemakers who find it difficult to handle sophisticated hi-fi music players” says DJ Paramesh.
Engagement Parties
Playthings – Mar 1, 2008
To help them do it the following CDs and DVDs feature a host of notable contributors including Chicago blues legends preschool television favorites ballerinas. To help them do it the following CDs and DVDs feature a host of notable contributors including Chicago blues legends preschool television favorites ballerinas… The current assortment includes the games- and activities-based Social Explorations; the art-themed Visual Inspirations (pictured); the word-building Vocabulary Seeds; and three other developmentally focused titles. The Sippy Cups the San Francisco kinderock band called “The Flaming Lips of the toddler set” by the LA Times are captured on DVD for the first time with their self-produced The Sippy Cups Live at The Great American Music Hall. Recorded before a live audience at San Francisco’s historic live music venue in December 2006 the DVD is a good introduction to the fun and energy of the six-piece band’s live shows which mix comic stunts trippy visuals puppets and original songs with unique covers of classic rock favorites from artists like The Beatles The Velvet Underground early Pink Floyd David Bowie and The Who. Harmonica Pocket the Marrowstone Island Wash. -based group known around the Puget Sound for its Dr. Seuss-style literary sing-along events as much as for its toe-tapping tunes release their second children’s CD this month Ladybug ne. The album features a genre-jumping selection of classic children’s songs like “Twinkle Twinkle” and “ Susannah” along with catchy quirky original tunes with an ecological bent that blend alternative pop sounds with world music cues.
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