| Say Bok Gwai / Trio/Chinese Jesus |
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| Album: | Trio/Chinese Jesus | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Say Bok Gwai | Added: | Feb 2018 | |
| Label: | Edgetone Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2018-02-16 | Pull Date: | 2018-04-20 |
| Week Ending: | Apr 1 | Mar 25 | Mar 11 | Mar 4 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Mar 31, 2022: | A Night on the Roof (rebroadcast from Mar 1, 2018) Obamachrist | 4. | Mar 22, 2018: | Sound Landscapes Once Upon A Time In Chinatown | |
| 2. | Aug 09, 2021: | A Night on the Roof (rebroadcast from Mar 1, 2018) Obamachrist | 5. | Mar 21, 2018: | Brownian Motion Stoner Chino | |
| 3. | Mar 28, 2018: | Brownian Motion Stoner Chino | 6. | Mar 07, 2018: | Brownian Motion Heavy Metal Sewing Circle |
| Album Review |
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| Your Imaginary Friend Reviewed 2018-02-15 | ||
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Local Chinese American band. Mostly balls out thrash punk. But a mixed bag including some dissonant plod rock and even some strange attempts at prog jazz/prog rock (ironic?). From Bandcamp: “Say Bok Gwai is San Francisco's first Chinese American hardcore band, melding two distinct cultures into a completely unique sound… original compositions are rooted in American punk/thrash/hardcore music and sung primarily in Cantonese… subject matter ranges from Chinese American identity to grappling with traditional Chinese values and down with "the man" aesthetics.” 1-3) FCCs 4)* (0:30) full on thrash 5) (0:40) upbeat 2/4 hardcore punk 6) (1:50) 2/4 gallop punk, ends with slow chorused dirginess 7) FCCs 8) (1:03) rockin slow part then fast screamy punk 9) (0:12) blazing fast bried 10) (0:15) blazing with grindy vocs 11) (1:14) slow doomy start then blazing punk, slow fast slow thing 12) (1:03) punk gallop, shifts between the pop punk ska thing and back 13) (0:18) brief blast 14) (0:27) punk blast 15) (0:55) rip roaring disjunct punky mess 16) (1:29) 4/4 driving insolent punk 17) (1:49) 2/4 punk gallop beat, insolent punk 18) FCCs 19) (2:13) mathy beat, sax prog returns, but tighter, crashes into dissonance 20) (2:05) huh? This is prog jazz, saxaphones, electric piano and that style drumming, but theres something off, flubbed notes here and there, makes this rather twisted and weird, almost comical 21)* (5:36) slow dissonant plod, early Swans bass, chantlike vocs, doomy | ||
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