Featuring Edison Chen 陳冠希, Re-TROS 重塑雕像的权利, A Si 阿肆, HHH 红花会, Brian Hill and The Noh Starrs, Calvin Love

The Modern Sky Festival NYC, in it’s fourth year, returns to Central Park on September 30th. Hong Kong music and film icon Edison Chen, indie-pop songwriter A Si 阿肆, seminal post punkers Re-TROS, and Modern Sky USA Records signees Calvin Love and Brian Hill and The Noh Starrs are all set to perform, with more names to be announced in the coming weeks.

Edison Chen 陳冠希

Best known in the West for his roles in Hong Kong films like Infernal Affairs, Vancouver-born Edison Chen also put out a string of albums and mixtapes that blend rap and Cantopop. As a musician, he has collaborated with a roster of famous producers, including Sam Spiegel (N.A.S.A.), Grammy-winner James Fauntleroy, Brodinski, DJ Snake, and Nosaj Thing.

Re-TROS 重塑雕像的权利

Formed in 2003 by singer/guitarist Hua Dong and, singer/bassist Liu Min, Re-TROS soon became a sizzling band in Beijing. Re-TROS, see themselves as a return to a lost authenticity, want to embrace the basic values from the bygone post-punk era. Once you take the first sip of Re-TROS music, you will find it easily they are inspired by the 70s post-punk ancestors like Bauhaus, Joy Division and Gang of Four. Their music is a renewal of post-punk which incorporated with synthesizers and evocative melodies.

Members:
Guitar, Vocals, Loops: Hua Dong 华东
Bas, Vocals, Synthesizer: Liu Min 刘敏
Drums: Huang Jin 黄锦

A Si 阿肆

A self-taught guitarist from Shanghai, A Si started writing music in 2009, just one year after she picked up a guitar for the first time. In 2010, she began posting her music on the Chinese site Douban, where her song “I Was Eating Fried Chicken in the People’s Square” quickly made her name. In 2012, A Si signed to Modern Sky and her song “Skimming Over the Surface” was included on the compilation Modern Sky 7.

HHH 红花会

Hip-hop crew HHH takes its Chinese name, Hong Hua Hui (“the fellowship of the red flower”), from Jin Yong’s famous martial-arts novel The Book and the Sword. Founding member K9999 gave the group the name of the fictional fellowship to instill a sense of group unity and of an unstoppable battle to the end, and with these core ideals, HHH’s star has quickly risen in China’s hip-hop scene.

Brian Hill and The Noh Starrs

The Noh Starrs is Brian Hill’s love/hate letter to New York, an exploration of his life and experiences in the city, and the anguish of having to leave it to love it. In his songs, he writes about surviving his first few years in the city, the surreality of New York City life, and the intriguing characters he met along the way both in New York and while traveling around the world: a stalker, a friend called Sarah, and the city itself as a living entity. The songs can appear manic at times and meditative at others—just like the city makes him feel.

Calvin Love

The gentle, supple poet whose aim is to elucidate humanity for the weary denizens of the weary world. He proves that in the form of cartoon darkness, there is a reality beyond that which is fully amenable to basic speech, and so must be corralled in a blind faith in a palette. All great artwork depends on a palette, on the choices that one makes in pulling the shades of that palette into one’s control out of a sense of belief that I don’t understand.