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A lot of the music you hear these days sounds like it
was produced in the sanitation room of an airport. It’s
clean and tidy, but it’s also dehumanized, emasculated,
bereft of life and breath. Long-ge (“Brother Dragon”),
however, will never fall into the category of echolalia
and tripe that is served up disk by disk as the band or
ass of the month, peddled to be thrown away to make room
for the next bit of fluff to appear. With a cigarette in
one hand and a bottle in another, Long-ge manages to
hold onto his guitar as he spins stories and songs and
invites his friends to lift a glass with him. Long-ge
sings in Amis, his traditional aboriginal language, as
well as in Chinese, and his songs bring you inside,
making a circle of the place you are and opening the
circle to everyone. Some of these songs were recorded
outdoors beneath trees and sky, with friends on hand to
share the stories and the wine, and some were recorded
live in a bar. This music is alive, not chopped into
pieces on a dissection table, and when you hear it
you’ll feel a little more alive too, knowing there’s at
least one other person dreaming and breathing and
laughing in this hungry metal world
...........By Scott Ezell,in Dulan,
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