Alex Zhang Hungtai (Taiwan) (Ex-Dirty Beaches)
Alex Zhang Hungtai (Taiwan) (Ex-Dirty Beaches)
Location
Date
Description
Enthusiastic Eunuch Presents
Alex Zhang Hungtai
(Dirty Beaches)
with special guest
Mantua (Elaine Malone)
Saturday 27th February 2027
Upstairs At Whelan’s
Doors 8pm
“Expansive
epics heavy on spiritual saxophone.” - Bandcamp Daily
“Barking cries that humanized the composition within a timeless atmosphere.”
- Parklife DC
“A prayer spoken from another world; the image of luminous specks of life seen in the neon lights of Hong Kong, of a god formed in cracked concrete.” - Tiny Mix Tapes
Alex Zhang Hungtai released several EPs and three albums as Dirty Beaches on cassette-only labels before releasing his fourth full-length, Badlands, in March 2011. Badlands, unlike Zhang’s earlier work, included his vocals on most songs. The album was long listed as a nominee for the 2011 Polaris Music Prize. Drifters/Love Is The Devil followed in 2013, pushing further into no wave, electronic music, jazz and ambient territory.
After retiring his project Dirty Beaches, he has been focusing on explorations of improvised music, experimental jazz, and his new role as a composer. His newer compositions predominantly works with saxophone, synthesizers, percussion and piano, furthering his research on ritualistic music of liminality. Besides his solo work, he is also a member of a jazz/experimental trio with Portugese minimalist/architect David Maranha, and jazz Drummer Gabriel Ferrandini in Lisbon. Zhang currently works as a composer for film soundtracks, along with acting in independent films.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryiUDFkoixY&list=RDryiUDFkoixY
On June 4, 2017, Zhang appeared in the fifth, David Lynch-directed episode of the revived third season of Twin Peaks. Playing with Dean Hurley and Riley Lynch as part of the group Trouble, Zhang played sax in the scene. The song, Snake Eyes, was issued as a single by Sacred Bones Records.
Zhang has also recorded original film soundtracks for several documentaries, including Water Park (2012) and Who Is Arthur Chu? (2017), in addition to directing music videos for himself and others. In 2018, the film August at Akiko’s had its premiere at film festivals. Directed by Christopher Makoto Yogi and set in Zhang’s childhood home of Hawai’i, the film features Zhang in a leading role, and it also features Zhang’s sax based original score, which was released as a soundtrack album. In 2020, Zhang collaborated on two full length instrumental albums, Longone with Tseng Kuo-Hung and Styx with Pavel Milyakov.
MANTUA is a music project from Elaine Malone (pôt-pot,
Géis)). Influenced by environmental decline, symbolism in the forms of Virgin Mary holograms and the decay of nature. Other influences include the work of Jodorowsky, bogs and death.
Organiser
Venue
Whelan's (Upstairs Venue), 25 Wexford St, D02 H527 Dublin 2
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