[Coverage] Taiwan X
Malaysia Musician Exchange Media Reception Event
Media Reception Event
Kuala Lumpur, September
2018 - Taiwan X Malaysia Musician Exchange, officially supported
by the Bureau of Audiovisual and Music
Industry Development (BAMID) of Taiwan; held its first ever event in the Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre (KLPAC)
on 3rd September 2018.
This event aims to build strong bilateral relationship of the music industry in
both countries, improve business networking, broaden the market, and deepen the
cultural and economic cooperation between countries.
A mix of 50 Taiwanese
& Malaysian delegates were present during the event. Most of them
representatives of music industry-related companies/institutions, such as: music company, artist management company,
music streaming services, music journals, music festival/event organizers,
radio stations, music producers, etc. The team will also be heading to
Thailand and Japan later this year, and plan to explore Indonesia, Philippines
and Vietnam next year.
Paudull陳建年, often
referred to as the simplest and purest
voice in Taiwan. He recently retired as a policeman at the East of Taiwan last September. During a short
session with him after the reception, he jokingly said that he’s under a lot of
pressure from fans, as it has been 16
years since his 2nd album release. However, he mentioned that he is
constantly looking for inspiration and learning new things every day; and
hopefully there will be some new songs from him soon. As a member of the Pinuyumayan (also known as Peinan 卑南) tribe, Paudull greeted the
audience with his tribe language. Paudull was very happy to find that there are
a lot of similarities that he can identify between his homeland and Malaysia,
certain pronunciation of words, even the skin colour. This made him felt very
at home in Malaysia, even if it is his first time here.
This was actually Fang
Wu 吳汶芳’s second time in Malaysia. She
once visited Langkawi Island for a personal trip, and she misses Malaysian food
a lot. Fang shared that she loves surfing and diving, and she would be
performing a lot of ocean-themed songs from her latest album. She is also very
concern about the ocean trash issues, and hopes to incorporate more of nature
preservation messages in her future songs. We asked her if she has any specific
Malaysian that she’d like to collaborate with. Fang revealed that she was very
much influenced by Penny Tai when
she first started song-writing, and she would love to collaborate with Penny in
future.
Kowen Ko 柯智棠 just
released his latest album 《吟游》a month ago and he’s
currently on tour with his band. Unlike his previous music, which is relatively
peaceful and calming; this new album portrays a more rock version of Kowen. Coming from a family of
singer-song writers, he was asked if there’s any chance of him collaborating
with his cousin sisters Waa Wei魏如萱 and Queen Wei魏如昀. He replied that so
far there hasn’t been any chance yet, but who knows what the future holds.
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Covered by Co-editor Sing Ean.
Published by WLJack.
