Chicago-October 1999-- In an effort to aid victims of Taiwan's recent
earthquake, Chicago's Mactra has released the CD Mirrored Marshes. All
artist revenues will go to the Taiwan Earthquake Relief Fund, administered
by Taiwan's International Commercial Bank of China and the Taipei Economic
and Cultural Office in Chicago. At press time, it was uncertain whether
MP3.COM would also contribute its share of the profits to the fund. The CD
costs eight dollars and contains both normal audio tracks and MP3 files. It
can be obtained at
http://www.mp3.com/mactra.
Donations can also be made directly to the fund:
Taiwan Earthquake Relief Fund
The International Commercial Bank of China
Chicago Branch
2 N. LaSalle St., Suite 1803
Chicago, IL 60602
About Mactra
Mactra (
http://mactra.home.mindspring.com) is the latest project for
musician Mack Hagood. The music travels between ambient and hyper, sublime
and ridiculous, east and west--all within a single song. Samples of Chinese
opera, Balinese gamelan, animal sounds and field recordings are mixed with
orchestral arrangements, organ, surfy guitar, infectious beats and hypnotic
ambient passages to create "narrative" instrumentals.
A New Orleans native, much of Hagood's sound developed during the four years
he lived in Taiwan, absorbing folk operas, temple puppet shows, funeral
parades, Chinese classical music, Canto-pop and the island's emerging Noise
scene.
Patrick M. Files
backwoods-pmf@mindspring.com