Residence A embody the unpredictability of the Chinese rock scene.  Young, keen and totally committed, they devote themselves to rock music with a single mindedness totally unique in China's soulless modern consumer culture.

music operations coordinator in beijing, china. semi-professional subtitler and serious cocktail nerd. life goals: become an auxiliary percussionist for a relevant buzzband, travel to mongolia.

current obsessions: cults, mayer hawthorne, tennis, james blake, rose mansion analog

lifetime obsessions: the magnetic fields, neutral milk hotel, the velvet underground, the national, joanna newsom. 



Depressive Rock/Post Rock Influenced by Opeth, Katatonia, Porcupine Tree, Mono etc.

Xiao Yu was walking down the street one day when an eerie whine caught his attention. He looked up to see a strange object hovering over the top of the Pearl Tower. Although he expected craziness when he left his small village in Hubei for the big city, this was too much to believe.

Suddenly, the disc came down to earth. From its belly emerged several strange looking creatures. Although they were terrifying, somehow Xiao Yu didn’t find them threatening. A strange voice, only audible in his head, reassured him of the interlopers’ benevolence.
Unfortunately, other humans thought differently and rapidly organized an attack. The creatures retreated rapidly to their vessel and fled the earth, leaving behind the two most gullible and brave to cover their asses. 

These two, Rabshaka and Mahanadan, were renowned for the strength and fortitude of their enormous claws. So it was that they confronted the humans alone, without fear. 
As the smoke from the first terrible clash blew away, Xiao Yu let out a piercing cry: 

“Wait!”

Everyone turned to see the source of this odd objection. He continued, “We know not if they are Friend or Foe!”

Hushed murmurs began to ripple through the mob, which gradually elevated into clattering arguments…the humans began to reconsider the two extraterrestrials’ intentions.

After heated debate, seeds of peace were finally sown between these earthly beings and the two remaining aliens.

Rabshaka and Mahanadan, now left to their own devices, remain committed to their compatriots’ mission. They are currently traveling the earth, observing human behavior and categorizing it into rhythmic reports. 

They have teamed up with Xiao Yu and send these operatic observations into space, as a form of scientific recording, and a plea for their mothership to come back.

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有一天，小予正在大街上散步，突然他听到了一个尖利的声音从天上传来。他抬头一看，发现有个奇形怪状的东西正在东方明珠的上空盘旋着。虽说从湖北老家来上海之前，也曾从回家过年的三叔四姨那里听过好多城里才有的奇闻，但这个也有点太难以置信了吧。
转眼间，那个飞碟就着陆了。接着从飞碟的肚子里走出好几个长的怪里怪气的生物。他们看上去可怕极了，但是小予心里却对他们有一种不能言说的好感。脑袋里好像有一个怪异的声音在对他说话，安慰他不要害怕这些友善的外星人。

然而并不是所有的人类都是这样想的。在未知的恐惧面前，他们迅速的对外星人发起了攻击。“怪人”们一看情况不对，掉头就往飞碟跑。抛下两个最勇敢也最好糊弄的傻大个给他们擦屁股。

这两只，一只叫若巴杀克，一只叫玛汉纳丹。历史叫兽们提到这一战的时候，都对他们的两对充满了力量和坚毅的大爪子歌颂不止。在人数众多的敌人面前，他们无惧的挥舞着大爪子，抵挡着一波波的攻势。。。

硝烟消散，在第一轮冲突慢慢平息之后，人群中突然传出一声高喊：

“等一等！”

大家转头一看，原来是小予。只见他接着又喊道：

“尚不知彼是敌是友！”

人群开始松动起来，有人开始接头交耳，渐渐的争吵声占了主流。。。人类终于开始尝试去了解这两个天外飞仙的来意。

火热而漫长的辩论之后，和平的种子总算发芽结果。

被抛弃了的若巴杀克和玛汉纳丹，倒是没有忘记他们此行的目的，开始了他们的环球科研考察。他们同小予一起四处观察人类行为，并把这些行为进行归档，写成旋律化的科学报告向大气外层进行广播。希望有一天老天爷发善心会让他们的航天母舰来接他们回家。。。

"20 years of music between France and China". In the year 2000, when he came for the first time to China, Zhang Si'an (Jean-Sébastien Héry) wrote his first Chinese song. Many records of different styles, fully or partly in Chinese, will follow. In 2010 he wins the Global Battle of the Bands in China and Hong Kong with his rock band "The Amazing Insurance Salesmen". 50 albums later, he still records and composes music.

Residence A is following