Dressed in concert black, South Korean violinist Inmo Yang is the epitome of cool, calm and collected. Despite his busy touring schedule, the virtuoso carved out time to grace our cargo lift, just a few hours before his Singapore debut at the Esplanade Concert Hall with the Festival Strings Lucerne on 12 Mar 2024. With equal parts elegance and expression, Yang stunned us all with two solo pieces: Paganini’s famed Caprice No. 24 and Bach’s Preludio from Violin Partitia No. 3 in E Major. 

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Audio: Andrew Lim

Imagine Taiwanese folk and urban tales, but louder and much, much catchier: that’s precisely how one would describe the electrifying music of Taiwanese fusion band, A_Root. The alchemy of this vibrant six-piece band comprises many parts—a healthy dose of jazz, funk, Chinese opera songs and pop, the resonating sounds of Chinese instruments such as the sheng and the qin, plus the expressive storytelling delivered by the band’s main vocalists, Yoyi and Jipo. 

While they were in Singapore for Huayi – Chinese Festival of Arts 2024, the band stormed our cargo lift (which has a new look this season) with two songs based on Taiwanese paranormal tales: A-Moi 《山鬼阿妹》, based off the story of The Little Girl in Red, and Miss Change《林投姐姐》, drawn from the tale of Sister Lin Tou. 

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Audio: 4th Wall Studios