Cat #: 019TZM
P.K.14 occupies a space in Chinese music that might be analogous to that of Talking Heads or Television in the New York of the 1970s. They are among the most thoughtful and self-referential of bands, with an enormous curiosity about music coupled with a complete inability to care about musical fashion. Among the astonishing group of young musicians that has emerged in Beijing over the last four years, they are almost unanimously cited as the band that has most influenced the young Beijing music scene with their eclectic approach to music. But although they are at the heart of the Beijing scene, at the same time they are wholly unique and seem to be traveling in their own scene – one which consists of only one band.
The subject of numerous articles, interviews and critical pieces on Chinese, US, German, Austrian, French, Swedish, Norwegian and Australian television, as well as dozens of newspapers and magazines from around the world. Most recently, TIME magazine chose P.K.14 as one of Asia’s five best bands and one to watch in 2008, a list also including Cornelius.
City Weather Sailing, the fourth full-length album from P.K.14, is the band’s most cross-pollinated and exciting recording so far. In the credits we find Dennis Lyxzén, Torbjörn Näsbom, Dimitri Daniloff, Greg Calbi and Sterling Sound. A collaborative journey born in Beijing, given shape in Sweden and with a stop-over in New York before returning to China.
From Facebook:
…is going to pierce his gf this afternoon!
18th Feb 2024 – Of course, the English language is great for its ambiguity sometimes. It wasn’t me actually doing the piercing, and pierce was not a double entendre either. I’m guessing I took Amy to Polymorph where she either got her tongue, nose, lip or belly button pierced. She still has her nose and lip piercings but the others have gone now.
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