AsianInNY is a proud media sponsor for the amazing Taiwan-based music group A Moving Sound ’s North America CD release tour and we will be there for their performance on Friday 9/23 9:30 PM at DROM in New York (85 Avenue A, New York).  One performance only, don’t miss it!

A MOVING SOUND (AMS). Drawing on the rich culture of Taiwan, a beautiful island off the coast of China where ancient Chinese traditions flourish as nowhere else — including on the mainland — the sound of AMS captures the way these ancient traditions jostle with the open, sophisticated, and avant-garde styles that have been welcomed in Taiwan in the two decades that have passed since the end of martial law. AMS has fashioned an exquisite, accessible and, yes, quite “moving” sound that speaks eloquently of its unique country of origin, while at the same time speaking in a universal language to listeners around the world.

Now American listeners have an opportunity to hear AMS on their first U.S. release which debuts on September 13, 2011. The self-titled set premieres on Motéma Music, a rising New York City-based label that is showcasing some of today’s most artistically virtuosic and culturally innovative recording artists in world music and jazz, including Randy Weston, Monty Alexander, and Oran Etkin.

In the decade since AMS was formed in Taipei by Mia Hsieh and Scott Prairie,  the music of AMS has been praised by critics and world music advocates around the globe. Tom Pryor, supervisor of National Geographic World Music, described AMS as “one of the most original outfits working in the world music arena today.” And Theodore C. Levin, the noted Dartmouth University ethnomusicologist who was the first Executive Director for Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project, describes their work as “really beautiful, and beautifully presented.”

So now, having crossed the boundaries that separate the traditional from the modern, the East from the West, the personal from the universal, AMS crosses another border, bringing their music with its innovation and sophistication, yet deep and ancient roots, to American audiences for the first time.  For more info: http://www.motema.com/press/amovingsound

來自台灣的「聲動樂團」，以根源於傳統的原創音樂贏得世界觀眾的感動。創團九年來二度入圍金曲獎，巡演世界十多國家，接受國際知名媒體Discovery、美國PRI、英國BBC專訪，成為國際媒體眼中的台灣新創力形象，今年更獲美國音樂公司Motema青睞而發行首張國際專輯，同時巡迴美國、加拿大交流演出，將台灣多元融合的美麗聲音推向國際。紐約演出於九月二十三日晚間九點半，在東村的世界音樂場域Drom(85 Avenue A, New York)開唱。