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Chinabot is a platform and collective created to change the dialogue surrounding Asian music. Why? In the most literal sense: we want to make a new stereo-type.

In 2017, a digital diaspora community of Asian artists decided to cooperate on a new way to collect and promote exciting Asian music. We want to show a slice of what we like, the cultures we come from and our own ideas. We’re an online community and a virtual home celebrating the music that falls between the gaps -- a place for adventurous listening. Chinabot is positioned at the junction point be

tween the influence of Asian music on contemporary sounds and the development of experimentation. We work with composers, sound artists, improvisers and musicians to develop projects that rearrange the furniture of the musical world. We want to question our assumptions about what music is and where it can go. People are often fed a singular image of ‘Asian music’, but each of our cultures is varied and complex. Even in 2017, realistic portrayals of Asians are still thin on the ground in the West, throughout cinema, television, literature, music and theatre too. We are smothered by the stereotype of the uncreative, robotic worker, and labeled as ‘Chinese’ no matter where in the continent we are from. By continuing the dehumanization of Asians onscreen and in popular culture, it dehumanizes us in real life. Racism against Asians is not only ignored, but often accepted, unacknowledged or even encouraged. We want to break silences, which are often also encouraged our own culture, in order to push the public to take a closer look at racial inequality towards Asians. People have always moved around the world, bringing their traditions, knowledge, and beliefs with them, and often mixing them with those of their new homes. For many people, their migrations and those of their ancestors are important in shaping both their personal identities and the art they produce. Chinabot is a space for Asian artists to play with their ideas and cultural hybridities. By doing so we hope to create another narrative in contemporary music from Asia and its diaspora.

04/05/2025

https://chinabot.fanlink.tv/kasai-jitanda

(CHI054)

27/03/2025

CHINABOT x Radio Alhara راديو الحارة episode 10 w/ YOKUBARI Hisham A. Bharoocha

Tonight 9pm-10pm GMT 11pm-Midnight Bethlehem Time

Hisham Akira Bharoocha aka YOKUBARI will be presenting a soundscape mix referencing the many moods that seem to be encompassing the planet at the moment; fear, love, chaos, joy, and the eternal search for peace.

📡 The show will be broadcast at :

www.radioalhara.net

Collage by Hisham Akira Bharoocha

23/02/2025

Elegant and effusive, timeless eternities, bulky sounds. The Brussels-based sound artist and composer discusses three important albums.

20/02/2025

Tomorrow at Café OTO

Tickets: https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/chinabot-presents-saadet-turkoz/

09/02/2025

31/01/2025

💿 Eind vorig jaar verscheen bij Chinabot ‘In All Possible Places At Once’ van Liew Niyomkarn, een sfeervol en droomachtig album waarin tijd en ruimte verdwijnen.

🎵 De in Thailand geboren, maar na veel omzwervingen nu in Brussel wonende geluidskunstenaar en muzikant bouwt een bevreemdende wereld van klanken, echo’s en spokenword-intermezzo’s.

📖 Katrien Schuermans sprak haar voor de nieuwe Gonzo (circus)-editie.
https://www.gonzocircus.com/blog/interview-liew-niyomkarn

📸 credit: Brecht Steenhouwer

07/01/2025

Happy New Year everyone!

We’re very excited to announce this new lineup at Café OTO featuring two incredible artists favoring a uniquely personal approach to vocal expression.

21.02.25

✸ SAADET TÜRKÖZ [SOLO]
✸ JENA JANG [SOLO]
✸ SAADET TÜRKÖZ + JENA JANG [DUO]

SAADET TÜRKÖZ

Improvisational vocalist Saadet Türköz was born in Istanbul in 1961 to parents who were Kazakh refugees from her homeland, East Turkestan. She learned the rich oral and musical traditions of Central Asia from the elderly people of the Kazakh community in Istanbul. Their tales of their homeland and long journeys to Turkey later became an imaginative source for her improvisational singing. Another source has been the Koran she listened to as a child. Later her repertoire has widened to include improvised music and modern interpretations of Turkish and Kazakh music. In her work she combines past and future, traditional and contemporary, dream and reality. Through the years she developed her own style of singing, which is both expressive, physical, archaic and calm. In addition to solo performances, Türköz performs in duos, trios and larger free-improvising formations.

JENA JANG

Jena Jang is a vocalist, experimental musician, and performance artist from South Korea, currently based in Prague, Czechia. Their work focuses on trauma healing and liberation from mental anguish through high-pitched frequencies generated by hand-built synthesisers, extended vocal improvisation, and power electronics. Drawing inspiration from Buddhist chanting, yogic breath work, throat singing, and traditional Korean music forms such as Pansori, Samulnori, and Shamanic rituals, their performances are raw, visceral expressions of energy.

Physicality plays a central role in their work, with movements such as headbanging, crawling, and repetitive gestures aimed at releasing past traumas and transforming them into cathartic, trance-like healing experiences.

Tickets on sale now: https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/chinabot-presents-saadet-turkoz/

📷 Jena Jang by Ott Kattel

27/12/2024

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