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rose petals and runways

Saturday, Jan 12, 2008 7:39AM / Standard Entry

Yes, those are rose petals on the runway. Here are a couple photos from last weekend, when I was playing at the Miss Los Angeles Chinatown Fashion Show. I think I was there to provide the male point of view, because I was the only one with a Y chromosome to step foot on the stage that day. At any rate, it was a great show. And I learned that Miss Chinatown contestants have to change really, really fast. Unfortunately, these photos don't give a sense of how huge and beautiful the ballroom was, so you'll have to take my word for it.

I didn't sell too many of my CDs, even though they were super limited-edition (from having been burned on my Mac at home and then sharpied on). Maybe Office Depot and charity fashion shows don't have the same target market.

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Radiant soda

Wednesday, Jan 2, 2008 2:13PM / Standard Entry

Definitely one of the coolest things anyone gave me this holiday season. My pal Max always has something quirky up his sleeve... Thanks buddy.

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Make Your Holidays Radiant

Wednesday, Dec 12, 2007 11:52AM / Standard Entry

Hey everyone,

In celebration of the holidays, I'm rolling out a little promotion for my friends and fans.

If you buy the entire album, "Radiant," on iTunes anytime between now and the end of December, I'll send you a link to download the complete production demos (in MP3 format) for the record, including a never-released song that I've never played or performed.

These are the raw, unmixed and unmastered demos with placeholder instrumental tracks, loops and keyboard sounds filling in for the real band. My bassist and drummer played along to these demos as scratch tracks during the recording of the album. Essentially, they're the "Radiant" worktapes. And like I said, you'll also get an eleventh song that wasn't included on the finished album.

As an extra bonus, I'm also including one of the unreleased versions of the album art to go along with the production demos that you can throw into iTunes. This was part of the original batch of album covers done by my graphic designer/creative cohort Max Medina.

Just email me at scott@scotttang.com with the date you purchased "Radiant" on iTunes (so I can verify it with my digital distribution accounting), and I'll send you the link to download the demos.

If you've already bought the album, just email me, and I'll send you the link.

Happy holidays, everyone!

Scott

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fashion for charity

Saturday, Dec 8, 2007 3:19PM / Standard Entry

The 2008 Annual Miss Los Angeles Chinatown Pageant is coming up right after the holidays, and along with that, the Charity Fashion Show, on Saturday, January 5. This year, I'll be doing my part to help out during the charity show by performing. Supposedly, a bunch of songs from "Radiant" are also being worked into the show somehow.

Here's the important part, though: the fashion show is to benefit two really great charities: Project Cuddle (www.projectcuddle.org), organized to stop the abandonment of babies (statistics indicate that nationwide, 57 babies are abandoned every day), and Living Grace (www.lgrace.org), a counseling organization for Chinese American families, communities and churches.

If you would like to help out, too, you can do so in one of these ways:
-monetary donations and sponsorships
-donations for the silent auction held just before the show
-support by placing an ad in the program book
-attend the show by purchasing a ticket

All this information and more can be found on a .PDF file I've uploaded to my server at:
www.scotttang.com/2008fashionshow.pdf

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Isn't love always remixed anyway

Thursday, Dec 6, 2007 9:00AM / Standard Entry

Got word from my man Giles Li over at Boston Progress Radio that one of their staff reviewed "Radiant" as part of their Featured Artist series. What I dig about this review is that the writer clearly isn't a pop music listener, yet she still connected with the songs.

Anyway, reviews can be hard to come by for an indie artist (it's like finding money in your couch, except it's a $20 bill), so please leave a comment at the bottom of their page to show some love right back. Something like "Buy this album NOOOW!" will do, but, you know, feel free to improvise.

The full review can be found at http://www.bprlive.org/2007/12/03/featured-artist-scott-tang/ but here's an excerpt:

"This album may make you want to get into your car, blast the tracks and reminisce about past love or fantasize about new ones. It also reminds me of parts in old TVB Chinese television episodes where either a couple finally gets together after torturous years of keeping their love from each other (this is where a Scott Tang track would start playing), or the part when the couple breaks up but you know they still love each other so it makes you want to jump into the TV to tell them that there is still hope. Although pop albums are not my music of choice, I found "Radiant" to be refreshing at times and perhaps renews my hope that real love exists. Aside from the sometimes very cheesy (or maybe I'm just too jaded) lyrics that yearn for true love, listen to the awesome piano composition in the background. Some tracks to listen for on the album include "Olvera Street," "Sublingual," "Life With You," and "For The Record." But personally I would love to hear "Olvera Street" flipped into a hip-hop remix (Isn't love always remixed anyway?)."

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Scott Tang is a composer and pianist singer-songwriter whose journey has spanned many musical genres and taken him to the other side of the world...
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Scott Tang is a composer and pianist singer-songwriter whose journey has spanned many musical genres and taken him to the other side of the world. After copyrighting his first work at age 9 and working feverishly at the piano through his teenage years, Scott went on to major in music at U.C. Berkeley. He was one of the most involved and popular composers of the school's Undergraduate Composers group, due to a body of neo-romantic work that included string quartets, piano rhapsodies and choral pieces, one of which was premiered by Grammy award-winning Chanticleer director, Joseph Jennings.

Upon earning his Bachelor of Arts degree in music with distinction, Scott traveled to Hong Kong, living in a Buddhist nunnery and learning about the Chinese music industry. He went on to write the theme song for the opening ceremony of the largest Buddhist temple in Hong Kong. The song was recorded by Jacky Cheung and Alan Tam and quickly sped to the Top Ten on the local radio charts, earning well over a million HK dollars for charity. It was eventually incorporated into the daily routine of the school at the temple, so the children would gather each morning to sing the song together. Scott's experience at the Buddhist temple led to a stint writing songs for Polygram Records at their Tsimshatsui publishing department.

Since relocating to Los Angeles, Scott has been forcefully involved with both established and emerging Asian-American entertainment groups such as KSCI TV, MTV Chi, ImaginAsian TV/Radio, Visual Communications, the Tuesday Night Project, Sushi & Tofu, Rafu Shimpo, Aziatic Empire, Cold Tofu and more. He has co-organized a variety of shows in the Los Angeles area, such as the Komuzika showcase in downtown Los Angeles, ChopRock in Los Feliz, the 3rd Annual Asian Hip Hop Summit in Koreatown, YellowHouse in Silver Lake, and FuseBox, a night of music and video, in collaboration with MTV World and the VC FilmFest. Local venues he has played include The Gig, Tangier, Room 5, The Derby and Zen Sushi, as well as various festivals in Chinatown, the San Gabriel Valley and Little Tokyo. TV appearances have included KSCI's Chinese talk show "L.A. Living," the popular Pinoy TV show "Kababayan" and guest hosting the Top Ten Chi Countdown on MTV Chi.

Scott's debut solo album, "Late Night Drives," was released independently in July 2005. ChopBlock.com gave it four stars, recognizing that "there's something overtly genuine about these songs, emanating the kind of enduring soul that many pop artists wish for just a small fraction of. Late Night Drives is sparkling contemporary pop music with a rare kind of purity and verve." The album is full-fledged piano pop, and features Vietnamese pop sensation Trish Trang on background vocals, as well as a production team that has collectively worked with such artists as Fiona Apple, Black Eyed Peas, Rod Stewart, Madonna and Chaka Khan.

The music video for "Freeway" premiered on MTV Chi's Top Ten Chi Countdown, and has appeared on local and national TV and various Asian film festivals.

Scott's second solo album, "Radiant," was released in fall 2007. The music video for “Sublingual” premiered by closing out the music video program at the 24th Annual Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, held at the Director's Guild of America. The music video was also screened at the San Diego Asian Film Festival and the Louis Vuitton Hawaii International Film Festival and has appeared on KSCI Channel 18 in Los Angeles and ImaginAsian TV in New York.

In February 2009, Scott released his third full-length album, "T-Shirts For Tourists," which is available online from iTunes, eMusic, Rhapsody, Amazon MP3, Napster and Lala.
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Occupation: Singer , Musician , Composer
Gender: Male
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