Our version of enka standard "Guitar of Hot Springs Village" is about the postcolonial memory of Taiwan, infused with field recordings from Taiwan and shoe gaze noise. We played a live set at Human Resources in LA's Chinatown on Sunday May 18th, 2014. The event was organized by Giant Robot co-founder Martin Wong and his wife Wendy Lau to raise funds for the music program at their daughter's elementary school in Chinatown.

Guitar Of Hot Springs Village - Live in Human Resources, LA Chinatown

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Bitter Party is a Los-Angeles-based ghost pop band inspired by war-era music and the melancholy of life. Immersing ourselves in the rich repertoire of folk, pop, and obscure tunes from Asia, our performance references the music in each of our pasts through dusty tapes, songbooks, vinyls, and YouTube channels. We re-animate these transmigrated sounds with megaphones, sanshin, and post-colonial chiptune aesthetics. Pinball disco, electro enka, postcolonial ethnographic pop.

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