WFMU played LI Jianhong’s Drama Script

by lawrence

In his comment, Christiaan Virant of FM3 mentioned the recent airing of Hangzhou noisician LI Jianhong’s album Drama Script on New York’s WFMU. A link to the WFMU blog post by Brian Turner was provided.

As my knowledge goes, this is Li’s second exposure on the legendary radio station. The first one is documented by GNO in this post dated Jan 18, 2006.

However, Brian Turner mistook Post-Concrete as a Hong Kong label in the post, and he also seems to be unaware of the fact that the label is run by Dajuin Yao himself.

A few years back Hong Kong-based Post Concrete Records issued a snapshot of the scene called China: The Sonic Avant-Garde, as well as amazing music from Dajuin Yao……

Virant also left comment to Turner’s post, stating that:

Li truly is one of the top musicians in china! and hardest working as well, churning out what seems like dozens of disks every month.

Even on the rhetorical level, this is too distant from truth. The hardest-working man in the scene can’t be anyone else but Yan Jun, any objection? And Li has released three album in almost three years, that’s quite different from “dozens of disks every month” right?

Related:

# PSF’s Hideo Ikeezumi reviews Li’s album (in Japanese, Chinese and English)
# Li’s Selected Works 2001 - 2005 (net release, free download)




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  1. ooops! sorry! thought i had lots of li jianhong albums in my collection, but i guess i was wrong. thanks! have already corrected this in in an email exchange with the program director from WFMU…

    i wouldnt be too worried about documenting how many times who or what gets mentioned or played on foreign radio. ive heard Li played at least 4 times on WFMU. and torturing nurse as well. and lots of other local musicians… im pretty sure that Wang’s subrosa album has been played on a number of different stations if promos were sent out.

    one could spend their entire life trying to find how and where chinese music is getting played… and still not have all the info! but fact is, its getting some good play at small weird stations all around the world!! you would be surprised how many people in sweden know about the rock/punk/experimental scene in beijing, shanghai and guangzhou…

    Comment by christiaan — July 7, 2006 #

  2. Well said Christiaan, I certainly share your point-between-the-lines - if there is any - that all kinds of exposure are equal. ^_^

    Comment by lawrence — July 7, 2006 #

  3. btw. the kraftwerk vocoder you mentioned in an earlier post sold for USD12,500…

    Comment by christiaan — July 8, 2006 #

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