"血月下的黑色豐年祭"

獻給 發明Afrobeat鼓節奏的真男人 Tony Allen (R.I.P.)，靈感來自他與底特律Techno大師Jeff Mills合作的2018年EP Tomorrow Comes The Harvest。

A homage to the legendary Afrobeat drummer Tony Allen (R.I.P.), inspired by Tony Allen and Detroit Techno titan Jeff Mills' collaborative EP Tomorrow Comes The Harvest (2018).

Black Harvest Under The Blood Moon (Demo Version)

07. Patri-Ark 海長老

A rework of Taiwanese traditional tune.

緬懷恩師：賴陳隆

Dedicated to our mentor Chen-Long Lai

06. Spring Around 百家春

05. Floating Sandbank 漂浮沙洲

04. Creation Of The World 絕地天通

A rework of Taiwanese traditional ancient tune.

03. Water Moon Ascending To The Tower 水月登樓

02. Sunbird 太陽鳥

01. Giant Stone Falling From The Sky 巨石從天而降

北飛碟影 UFO In Taipei

Phunkee Little Island

Inspired by the mythology of Taiwan ancient aboriginal tribe Ketagalan

雷公子 Prince Of Thunder

Island Futurism is Taiwan's first Afrobeat inspired band formed in 2018, led by DJ @llenblow, former bassist of Dub/Reggae bands Hang In The Air & Taimaica Soundsystem, and one of the purposes is to pay tribute to Fela Kuti, Father of Afrobeat. Their music infuses Funk, Psychedelic, Jazz into traditional and islandish music to create their unique sounds of the future, emphasis grooves and improvisations. Their ideology inherits Afrofuturism mainly, trying to provide a beautiful vision of the future, but transforming it into Austronesian edition by adding themes of Taiwan's aboriginal mythologies and alien legends, to coin Formobeat that only belongs to Taiwan.

In July of 2020, they made their 13-piece one-take recording session at The Cave in Taichung in 2 days, and then independently released their debut album AIslanders digital version in the end of 2020, also marked the very first Afrobeat album in Taiwan.  In April of 2021, cassette version was out in limited quantity of 200, and they achieved release parties with Taiwan's first 2 handcrafted sound systems in Taipei (Millennium E) and Kaohsiung (Formosa Soundsystem).  AIslanders has received positive reviews from Taiwan and oversea since released, and was nominated for Best New Group/Band and Best Band of Singapore's online 14th Freshmusic Awards, also Best Jazz Album of Taiwan's 12th Golden Indie Music Awards.      

With the whole new lineup, their sophomore album Patri-Ark was released on 5/5/2023.

Current members:
Bass: DJ @llenblow 愛吹倫
Guitar: How Chen 陳顥
Drums: Guan-Zheng Wu 吳冠徵
Djembe: Danny Tsai 蔡彥智
Drum Pad: Wahcee 蛙西
Woodpecker: Eileen Tu 凹凹
Shekere: Acknos Ko 紅 雨 & Diana Chen 陳思妤
Tenor Saxophone & Flute: Hong-Yu Chen 陳泓宇
Trumpet: Grace Lu 盧品穎
Euphonium: Yang-Wei Chen 陳彥瑋
Dub Control: A.P.R.A 立揚

Island Futurism

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