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Award

Chinese Musician's Association ,Top 10 Best Album In 2002.

China Times, Top 10 Best Chinese Albums In 2002.

Listening / Program    

	01	Opening
	02	Love of Earth
	03	You are Heaven   *MV
	04	Hero of the Wild
	05	Mother's Wreath
	06	How are you, my friend?
	07	The Heart of Taidong is an Orchid  *MV
	08	Ba La Ba
	09	Grandmother Blues
	10	Let the World Go its Way
	11	Blue Rosary  *MV
	12	Persevere
	13	Amis Cornucopia

Introduction

Mother Earth

By Scott

I stopped by the studio in Taidong where my friend pau-dull was working on his second studio album, "Mother Earth". "What're ya putting so much different stuff in there for," I asked him as we listened to some of the takes. 

"I dunno," he said, "I just don't want people to get bored listening to the same old thing." He needed hardly have worried. pau-dull's first album, "The Ocean", became one of the most successful indie albums ever released in Taiwan when it mounted an impossible coup d'etat and swept the most coveted of the Golden Melody Awards in 2000. The awards brought pau-dull's music to the public's attention. Their depth, sincerity, and impeccable musicianship made pau-dull a beloved cultural figure across all strata of society. "Mother Earth" continues where "The Ocean" left off-these are songs of a place and a community, acoustic folksongs that are rooted in pau-dull's aboriginal heritage (Puyuma Tribe, of which only 10 thousand members remain, most having been eradicated by successive, repressive Japanese and Chinese regimes) and his residence among the blues and greens of Taiwan's yet-unspoiled South-East coast, between the mountains and the sea.

True to his aspiration, this collection of songs is not boring. The day I stopped by the studio there was a stack of hundred year-old bamboo, about six inches in diameter with very thin walls, which pau-dull and producer JR had cut to specific tones and recorded playing with a plastic sandal. pau-dull explores new musical terrain here, such as bassa nova, and also expands what was already the most extended musical family in Taiwan, in collaborations with a singer from the neighboring Amis tribe as well as with the usual conspiracy of cousins and uncles and nieces singing harmony. These are not commercial songs, they are songs of heart and blood, and it's wonderful to see such music take its proper place in Taiwan's music scene, kicking ass on the glam, sham, and spam that is idolized and then forgotten, like a one night stand that ends in halitosis and a visit to a VD clinic on a sorry Monday morning. 

Artists

Pau-dull "Chen Jian-Nian "  

His Official Web ** http://pau-dull.com/

Birth 1967 Coming From The Puyuma Tribe Tai-Dong

Award-Winning Puyuma Artist , Sings The Beauty Of The Mountains and Ocean

Pau-dull, whose Chinese name is Chen Jian-Nian, is a policeman from Taiwan’s southeastern Tai-Dong County. An Aboriginal singer-songwriter of the Puyuma tribe, Hel plays folk music that expresses the beauty of the mountains and ocean of his ancestral home. His songs combine American folk music, blues, jazz, but are also deeply rooted in the tradition of his Aboriginal heritage..... 

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