Les Gock, the former lead guitarist of the 1970′s Australian band HUSH and the child of Chinese immigrants to Australia, tracks his music career in an unusual theatrical performance during the Asian Australian Performance Event. Gock’s performance is featured in The Sydney Morning Herald.
Continue reading Back in the Spotlight: Hush Guitarist Les Gock
One of Australia’s top blues bands, Collard Greens and Gravy released its newest CD late last year. It has just received a thorough review on Ricky Bush’s blog — it’s worth a read. The review also gives a link to the band’s website — and there’s information about how to order the CD.
Continue reading Collard Greens and Gravy Releases New Album
Blues music pops up everywhere around the world. The annual Himalayan Blues Festival was first staged in 2007, organized by the very young Samik Kharel. In this interview, Samik gives us all the details about the festival and how it is organized.
Continue reading Himalayan Blues Festival: An Interview with Organizer Samik Kharel
Appaurant is a new website that will help restaurants and bars build and maintain an iPhone application for their clientele. It’s part of a new revolution about promotion of location-based businesses. Owners of blues and jazz oriented bars and restaurants may wish to explore. These online and mobile applications are already available in the US and in some locations in Europe. They will soon arrive in Asia.
Continue reading BLUES BARS AND RESTAURANTS: Check Out The Appaurant Marketing Tool
Ear Trainor 2.0 is an exceptional tool to help blues players learn to play by ear. Learn to recognize intervals, practice instantly playing back short melodies, set up your own online back up band to play blues in your choice of key and tempo. Thirty minutes a day with Ear Trainor will make you an awesome blues player.
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Back in March 2010, I had a fruitful trip to Cebu for a business meeting and also a meeting with master luthier Junx Muana of Harana Guitars to pick up my custom-made guitar. Junx was kind enough to invite me to play a set of acoustic blues at The Outpost, a popular resto-bar that features [...]
Continue reading The Cebu Guitar Festival: Delta Slim Account
Kelvin Ng
Those Harana guitars look nice!
Joric Maglanque
Kelvin – There are HD pics there of Harana guitars, including mine, on my FB page. I have a Singaporean colleague who had one built, maybe you can try his. 
Drop me a message if you want me to hook you up.
Thomas Colvin
Kelvin, take a look back in our archives to John Walden’s article about custom guitars in Cebu for more information.
Rich Miller
Joric, Tom,
Rich Miller here. I want to thank you both for graciously welcoming me into the Blues community here in the Philippines. Tom for tirelessly sharing his passion for the blues with the Philippine people along with the rest of Asia, and Joric for willingly sharing his stage with all people who show an interest in, or a talent for, playing the Blues.
Unfortunately my wife was stricken seriously ill and our slow migration to the Philippines was further stifled by the stark reality of the material world. This body is sooo heavy. Perfect Blues stuff right? It comes from working your a$$ off for a Fortune 500 company and having to leave your real passions to drift aimlessly in time. It is either that or pursue your art and die before your work is recognized. Van Gogh??? We all know that, “time waits for no one, and it won’t, wait for me!”
Anyway, things will level out and we will find our way here in the Philippines and I will have time to share some blues with you all, or find some other way to fulfill my own desire to express myself through the Blues harmonica and song.
I’m glad to see the Blues is growing a strong interest here in the Philippines. Proliferated much by the likes of Tom and Joric. Joric is obviously a key player and a driving force of the Blues scene here and Tom is of course its “Master of Ceremonies!”
Best regards,
Rich Miller – Harp player and singer – originally from New York
Joric Maglanque
Hi Rich – Thanks for the kind words and support. Really hope your family situation gets better soon. I look forward to seeing more of you here.
Alternatively, a friend (bassist) says there might be some blues gigs up there in Tagaytay. Send me your mobile # and I’ll contact you when we need a harmonica player. I think you got my email already.
cutiepink
Cebu guitar is fantastic thank you for supporting your nice words i really like it..Thank you
In addition to our regular blog posts, Blues Asia Network has introduced social media capabilities to its blog for those who wish to join this extra dimension, aiming to further build an online music community covering Asia and the Pacific. The blog itself will continue to be available to all visitors, no sign up necessary.
Continue reading NEW: Growing Our Own Music Community
Thomas Colvin
I’ve already received valuable feedback from our loyal readership, and I have made some tweaks to keep the blog posts front-and-center, with the opt-in Community features less intimidating. Thanks for sending me your thoughts. Together, let’s build this website into a truly valuable resource.
Many working musicians are familiar with the Real Book series of “fake” books. This series has become the standard tool than many musicians haul around with them to all their gigs. While mostly oriented to jazz and pop bands, there are quite a number of chord charts for well-known blues songs. Two products have come [...]
Continue reading Two “Real Book” Applications for Serious Musicians
So do you want to build up the reputation of your band? Well, here’s some advice from the band PHISH, as passed on by social marketing website The Hubze Project. While the advice relates to a major band, the lessons can be applied even to smaller bands seeking recognition. TELL US: Do you and your [...]
Continue reading How Phish Markets Itself Online
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Jim, 
Joric are discussing. 
cutiepink, 
Great share! I wish there will be a version or equivalent for iPhone/iPad.
Joric, as a matter of fact, it IS already available for iPhone at iTunes. For details, click on the EAR TRAINING tab at the top of his website, which takes you to his blog entries about his Ear Training software. Turns out that the iPhone app even has a feature not available in the online version — pitch recognition. And the developer has also added a major new feature, which plays JAZZ LICKS for one to try to catch by ear.
Better hurry to iTunes to buy it. It’s currently free, but the developer is thinking of CHARGING for it. A whopping $1.99! The online version, he says, will always be free.
Just to clarify a little further, this iPhone app goes by adifferent name — Play By Ear, but it has the same functionality as Online Ear Trainor.
Great stuff! Wish your blog had a ‘Print Page’ button.