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About three years ago Relax One(輕鬆玩)had set themselves apart from the buzzy
swarm of Taipei garage bands and were ready to take their first steps as
recording stars. The music was straight and fairly standard rock, but they had
amazing stage presence, highlighted by Kao Chao(高潮), a funk bass player with
funkadelic moves and a ridiculous name, and a lead vocalist, Summer, who has
the potential to become a Taiwanese Alanis Morissette and, even if she never
achieves it, still blows away every other female vocalist in Taiwan's popular
music industry. They signed with 8866(八八六六), the same company that's fed
teenage fantasies with China Dolls(中國娃娃)and more recently, Xiao Xiao(蕭瀟)
. Then Kao and guitarist, A-mao were called for compulsory military service.
The band never recorded anything and their contract expired.
Maybe, in the long run, that's for the best. About three months age,
military service completed, Relax One formed up again. The only line-up change
had them reverting to their original drummer of four years age, A-kui(阿貴).
Now they've set up a new recording studio and are gigging it up in small clubs
─ not some pop-light recording studio ─ an environment with the potential to
force a good band to get better. According to A-mao, the music has progressed
slightly:“We want the music to be more refined. Before, we were more rock and
funk. Now we're bringing in some Latin beats and other kinds of different
influences. We want to play something you can dance to.”
It might just work. At the very least it may be worth going to the Riverside
Cafe tomorrow night to find out. They play with Rubinton(路邊攤)and Hsiao
Hushih(小護士), in no particular order, according to the folks at the venue.
The show starts at 9:30pm and admission is NT$300. The Riverside Cafe(河岸留言)
is located at B1, 2, Lane 244, Sec. 3, Roosevelt Rd.(臺北市羅斯福路三段244巷2號
B1).
─DAVID FRAZIER
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