WE OFFER AN UNPRECEDENTED SHOW TODAY! Globe-trotting music producer John Ferreira popped up in Manila for 3 days, and Blues Asia Network was able to grab him for the show. John is also good friends with harmonica virtuoso Howard Levy. Ah ha, we said. Let’s also feature the work of Howard on the show, we [...]
YouTube videos of live band gigs flood the internet. But are they good advertising for bands? Mostly, the poor quality does not show off a band in a good light. BLUES ASIA TV addresses this problem in Episode 4.2. Dom Turner of Australia’s Backsliders plans a drop-in appearance at Crazy Elephant in Singapore. Brendan Power, [...]
I haven’t seen a cigar box guitar since I was a teenager, almost 60 years ago. I even built one myself and played around with it, along with my gut-bucket bass and washboard. Isaac Cullah, a follower of Blues Asia Network, brought those memories back to the surface by uploading to YouTube a brief video [...]
Back in 1963, German film-maker Dietrich Wawzyn toured through the US South in search of what we now call “roots” music, stuff that grows out of the soil of local backyards and community gatherings. It’s spontaneous music, usually improvised, seldom composed and written down in the traditional manner of more formal music. It is the [...]
In the last few years, YouTube has emerged as one of the most important tools for bands wishing to make an impression on the world. In the minds of many, if a band does not have videos, it simply doesn’t exist. Consequently, YouTube and Facebook are littered with video of bands and musicians hopeful of [...]
Music and the internet come together each year in Austin, Texas, for the important South by SouthWest Conference. This year’s conference has just concluded — and one of the featured panels discussed music and video blogging, an emerging major trend on the internet. As a follow up to yesterday’s post featuring Tek Castro’s video blog [...]
The “Chicago Blues” sound, that has so influenced western popular music, often featured the amplified harmonica. Marion Walter Jacobs, otherwise known as “Little Walter,” and also “Big Walter,” Walter Horton, together with many others, helped to take “The Blues” out of the Mississippi Delta, and into Chicago “Juke Joints,” the bars and clubs in what [...]
Last August, among over 2000 harmonica players who showed up for the Asia-Pacific Harmonica Competition in Singapore, only a small handful were diatonic players, and fewer still musicians who played blues. If Zhin Wong has anything to do about it, that will change. Zhin, as we announced earlier, is starting to post instructional videos to [...]
In our ongoing effort to build a comprehensive BLUES DIRECTORY for Asia and the Pacific, we are uncovering information of vital interest to musicians and bands across the region, as well as their fans. We are encountering so many MySpace musician sites that have more or less been abandoned, with no updates for over a [...]
Malaysian diatonic harmonica player Zhin Wong has launched a new video instruction series on his YouTube Channel. Zhin is an exceptionally gifted player, with special interest in blues, but with an inquisitiveness that takes him into other genres as well. His series will be a major contribution to blues players throughout Asia and beyond.
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