10 fascinating facts about TSS, a rock band that:

1)  Happens to be based in Beijing, China.

2)  Consists of 4 nice guys, 1 reprobate, 1 sad sack and a lovable sound man. 
	  
3)  Believes, musically speaking, pretty much anything goes.

4)  Welcomes comparisons with Brian Adams and Chaka Khan. 

5)  Likes radio dramas, unrequited-assassin-love ballads & cabaret grotesques.

6)  Grooves with complexity, but... 

7)  Shuns ‘progginess’, meaning no songs featuring:

a) Tolkein-like creatures or conjurers.
b) profound, existentially epiphanic endings.
c) Autumn wind blowing in the background.

8)  Is trilingual: “Hello!” － “ 您好！“ － ”Bon Jour!” 
	
9)  Has an assortment of bright, shiny instruments that look nice on stage.

10) Insists their music is danceable, and has the video to prove it.* 

Bonus fact:  Respects hotel furniture. 

* Never mind that it’s of the drummer, alone in his room, smeared with Crisco.


Band Members:

Drew Hanratty -- A gentle soul. He loves his mom and spends his mornings sipping camomile and reading haiku to his two cats, George and Marcel. The smell of Sycamore trees after the rain makes him weep. 

Alex Morris -- Miscreant and sometime injurer of audience members with errant flying cymbals. He covers the cost of the endless lawsuits by performing as a shiney-sequined backup dancer for Chinese Mandopop stars. 

Bruce Gremo -- The man with the bag full of flutes and a fist full of Heidegger. When not composing music for alien life forms in Ursa Major, he can be found in a corner at KFC doggedly working at his book, “The Hegelian Dialectic in All My Children”. 

Liang Ying -- Guitarist and male escort for the elderly and infirm, better known as ‘Little Hot Sauce’ by his best clients.

Nathaniel Gao -- Two hints: he plays something that rhymes with ‘fax’ and you blow into it	to make a jazz sound. Known for his narcoleptic episodes, it’s not uncommon for him to ‘sleep-out’ an entire song during live shows.

Wang Chen Huai -- Son of a high-level Triad mafia member. He doesn’t even play a musical instrument. We gave him a double bass because he was tall.

Dark ambient soundscapes that will haunt your nightmares...

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Born in a small Sichuanese city, Baishui is a composer and self-taught musician who plays guitar, piano and many traditional Chinese instruments. His earliest original compositions and performances were influenced by European neo-folk and dark ambient strains, but has expanded widely his musical canvas since. With neo-folk project Bloody Woods, experiment-in-randomness One Day In A Quark and under his own name, Baishui has been crafting intelligent and creative music across many genres, with musical inputs ranging from traditional Sichuanese folk ballads to 70s prog rock, atmospheric improvisation and beyond.

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