Long-Ge

Improvising Blues Guitarist

One of Taiwan's Musical Legends From The Amis Tribe Tai-Dong.

A lot of the music you hear these days sounds like it was produced in the sanitation room of an airport. It’s clean and tidy, but it’s also dehumanized, emasculated, bereft of life and breath. Long-ge (“Brother Dragon”), however, will never fall into the category of echolalia and tripe that is served up disk by disk as the band or ass of the month, peddled to be thrown away to make room for the next bit of fluff to appear. With a cigarette in one hand and a bottle in another, Long-ge manages to hold onto his guitar as he spins stories and songs and invites his friends to lift a glass with him. Long-ge sings in Amis, his traditional aboriginal language, as well as in Chinese, and his songs bring you inside, making a circle of the place you are and opening the circle to everyone. Some of these songs were recorded outdoors beneath trees and sky, with friends on hand to share the stories and the wine, and some were recorded live in a bar. This music is alive, not chopped into pieces on a dissection table, and when you hear it you’ll feel a little more alive too, knowing there’s at least one other person dreaming and breathing and laughing in this hungry metal world

...........By Scott Ezell,in Dulan, Taitung

Taken from http://www.tcmusic.com.tw/cd/026/English.htm