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"Sublingual" MUSIC VIDEO IS ONLINE

Friday, May 16, 2008 5:10AM / Standard Entry

Just wanted to announce that the music video for "Sublingual" has made its way online. You can watch it on YouTube here or check out a high quality version on my website here.

Big thanks to Phil at AngryAsianMan.com, Patrick and Mark at AliveNotDead.com, and my publicist Kim for helping to spread the word about our project!

For those of you who missed the screenings at my release party or at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, where it closed out the music video program, the video was directed by Karen Lin and shot at a historic Chinese restaurant in downtown called Chop Suey. The video was a big community effort, with costumes and props being donated from East West Players and Little Tokyo Service Center, as well as many generous friends and family members. But, of course, immense credit really remains with Karen, producer Jorge Agraz and the rest of our crew, who blessed the project with more skill, soul and just straight up raw ass-kicking power than I could possibly have imagined.

Be sure to watch for cameos by our editor Vincent Tsu (as a rich businessman) and my good friend, graphic designer and filmmaker Max Medina (making his auspicious screen debut with broom in hand).

If you're curious about the process of making the video, there are a ton of photos from the shoot on both my Facebook page and my AliveNotDead.com profile, taken by both Max and photographer Rachel Tejada.

As always, you can purchase "Sublingual" along with 9 other songs off "Radiant," my second full-length release, on iTunes, as well as eMusic, Rhapsody or Napster.

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Music Video Film Festival Premiere and Afterparty (FREE BEER)

Tuesday, Apr 29, 2008 9:59AM / Standard Entry

Thanks to everyone who showed up at the music video release party on Fri night. It was awesome getting to share it with you all. Unfortunately, the surprise performance only seemed to surprise around half of you; it's like you EXPECTED me to do something unexpected...

This weekend is also gonna be a big one for our music video, as it's having its official film festival "premiere" as part of "The Gift of Sound + Vision" music video program at the 24th Annual Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, organized by Grace Su. Grace not only oversees the music video program at the film festival, but she's also putting together the official afterparty at Libertine on Sunset, "NO NEED FOR EAR PLUGS!" (I'm not sure if that's the actual name of the show, or just like a mantra, but I'm seein it everywhere in all caps)

Grace invited me to do a set during the afterparty, along with Karin Anna Cheung and Big Phony. So those of you who were at Komuzika are already acquainted w/ all of us. Apparently, it's being hosted by Kathy Uyen... who was also at Komuzika. I know that kind of makes us sound like a little cartel. Or... a traveling circus. Oh, and there will be FREE BEER for the first hour. FREE BEER. It seems like whenever I do a show w/ free alcohol, my draw increases exponentially. Freakin alkies. The event should be called FREE BEER- NO NEED FOR EAR PLUGS!

Here's the info for the music video program at the film festival:
The Gift of Sound + Vision
Sat. May 3, 7:45pm
Directors Guild of America, Theater 2
7920 Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90046
More info and ticket purchasing info can be found here:
http://festival.vconline.org/program.cfm?program_id=24

And here's the info for the afterparty:
NO NEED FOR EAR PLUGS!
Sat. May 3, 9:30pm
Libertine
8210 W. Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90046

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MUSIC VIDEO: "SUBLINGUAL"

Saturday, Apr 12, 2008 2:44PM / Standard Entry

Pretty big news that I've been holding back for a while... my new music video is finally FINISHED. Some of you have been seeing these random photos I've been posting up on my Facebook or MySpace or AliveNotDead profiles... they're all photos from our music video shoot back in December.

The story goes even further back than that, when I first contacted an incredibly talented music video producer-turned-director named Karen Lin, asking if she'd be down to discuss working together. Completely defying logic, she agreed. On reflection, I must've told some colorful lies to make her think I was someone who could live up to her high standards. Karen's worked with artists as diverse as John Legend, Death Cab For Cutie, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Stereophonics, and many more she's too modest to tell me about. The second big piece of the puzzle came in the form of the historic Chop Suey Cafe & Lounge in downtown L.A., where I'd previously organized our Komuzika nights. When Karen saw the restaurant, she fell in love and came up with a concept that no one (besides her) thought was even close to being in the realm of possibility on our shoestring budget. From there, the whole thing just kinda snowballed. I'm still in disbelief when I think about the stars that aligned before the morning her thirty-person crew rolled into that restaurant.

Anyway, if you wanna hear the whole story, you can ask Karen herself, or our producer Jorge, or Max (who made his screen acting debut with an apron and broom), or several other crew members, all of whom are going to be joining me at the restaurant that served as our music video location when we celebrate the release of the music video on Friday, April 25. We'll be screening the music video at 9pm in the restaurant. Also, I'll be selling some special edition CDs of my album "Radiant," all of which will include a couple really cool surprises with them (for those of you who were at the last Komuzika: no, I don't mean the Office Depot logo on them...:).

You can check out the e-card for the release party on my Facebook, MySpace, AliveNotDead or my official site, www.scotttang.com.

Or just copy and paste this:
http://www.scotttang.com/sublingual_ecard.jpg

Here are the details:

"Sublingual"
Music Video Release Party
Friday April 25
Screening at 9pm, No Cover
Chop Suey Cafe & Lounge
347 East 1st Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012

A week after the release party, on Saturday, May 3, the music video will have its official film festival premiere at the 24th Annual Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival at the Director's Guild of America. Hopefully, that will be the first of several film festival stops it makes. You can find out more about the film festival screening and how to get tickets at festival.vconline.org. I'll be there (because there's nothing quite as funny as seeing your face on a big-ass screen) and hope to see you guys there as well. More information about the official film festival premiere will be coming soon.

Finally, as a reward for those of you who've actually been trying to figure out what all those strange objects were in the pictures I've been posting, I've uploaded a grip of photos that Max took during the first half of the music video shoot that should explain things. You can get a close-up view of what it was like to be in the middle of the shoot (and how much Max likes to take photos of props). You should be able to find these on most of my sites without having to poke around too much. In a week or so, I'll follow up with photos from a very gifted photographer, Rachel Tejada, who was there to scope out the second half of the shoot.

Looking forward to hanging out with you guys at the release party!!

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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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