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A Moving Sound, based in Taipei, Taiwan, has recently been getting lots of attention!

Interview

This week AMS co-founders Mia Hsieh and Scott Prairie are featured on the respected internet newspaper The Huffington Post as well as on LINK TV, in Link music director, Michal Shapiro’s insightful article and video blog. Michal shot the video during her recent musical fact finding mission in Taiwan. She describes A Moving Sound as one of the pioneers of new music coming from Taiwan. In the video Mia describes her passion for using “the old elements, the old wisdom and the old instruments to create something that can dialog with modern people”. Please share your comments on the HP page and support Michal’s wonderful piece presenting an open heart and minded look at Taiwan music.

Taiwan: Music Not Missiles (The Huffington Post)

Pushing the Envelope (Link TV)

Michal’s sentiments for the originality of A Moving Sound were echoed by Marco Werman, BBC Public Radio International who reports that AMS is “one of the few groups offering truly creative music from Asia”. You can hear his WOMEX (Sevilla, Spain) interview of Mia and Scott.

BBC interview

Tom Pryor, music supervisor for WorldMusic.NationalGeographic.com and past editor of Global Rhythm Magazine shared his perspective on A Moving Sound after seeing them on tour at Joe’s Pub in New York City stating that AMS is: “one of the most original outfits working in the world music arena today”.

Discovery Channel online program

Our second piece of exciting media news is that the global internet television service Babelgum has recently put online an entire program created by Lonely Planet for The Discovery Channel which prominently features A Moving Sound. This show, which is part of Lonely Planet’s Travel series entitled “Six Degrees” has a wonderful feature on Mia offering a voice workshop (at 8:45) as well as exciting concert and backstage footage with all of A Moving Sound (26:00) at the beautiful “Red Theater” (sorry…. for folks in Taiwan and some parts of Europe this link is not available).

Watch Discovery program

With this much publicity it’s clear that A Moving Sound is poised to break into the international spotlight!

Record Label

Towards completing the last piece of their puzzle, AMS is currently in talks with a wonderful, internationally respected World Music record label (say a prayer or do a chant for us!). A Moving Sound hopes that very soon they will be able to offer their beautifully packaged CDs around the world!  (For now you can get our Cds at CD Baby.  Digital downloads will soon be available on Mondomix)

Touring 2010

A Moving Sound is proud to announce they will be featured on the exclusive world music stage of the 2010 Shanghai World Expo! Write to us if you’ll be there and we’ll give you all the specific info of where and when.

…..if you are in Europe you can catch A Moving Sound Live this spring.

Confirmed shows so far are:
May 21 Sonidos de la Biodiversidad, Castellon, Spain
May 28 World Village Festival, Helsinki, Finland

If you are interested in booking A Moving Sound please contact us!