A Beijing-based music and gig review blog

For a long time I thought that I should be wary of a white guy play­ing a pipa. But after a few stel­lar exam­ples, includ­ing thruoutin/白面包/Brad, I’m no longer as wary. And peo­ple around the world are get­ting into this too, includ­ing Pittsburgh-based elec­tronic artist Johnny Jit­ters. He’s released an instru­men­tal sin­gle called “Clo­sure” and invited a bunch of artists to remix it, one of those artists being Beijing’s very own thru­outin. You can find the track at Band­camp, along with the oth­ers, and it’s well worth a lis­ten to. The pipa and Brad’s sub­tle vocals add some­thing that just isn’t there in the other remixes.

Brad’s going over­seas in March, to do a lit­tle tour of the U.S., but he’ll be back Beijing-side soon, work­ing up to a release all of his own, as well as get­ting the jing­weir zine up and run­ning, and of course some Super Secret Awe­some stuff that I just can’t tell you about yet. But don’t worry, it’ll be awesome.