taiwan pop – taiwan soundscapes project 聲在台灣

musically, ciOrad's "ocean diary" is nearly indistinguishable from a-ket-ah's production. as such it points us away from the neo-traditionalist or world music globalizing projects of late 1990s and early 2000s indigenous musicians who would capture taiwanese audiences in the island country's post-martial law, multicultural public sphere. ciOrad's song gives us something that sounds the same as taiwanese working class popular music but with a slight difference: it tells us to listen to the engines