Go Go Machine Orchestra for Post Rock

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   Go Go Machine Orchestra is a band from Taiwan founded in 2017 by percussionist Ting-Chun Yeh. Besides a drum kit, he plays the marimba. The other musicians in the band are Ni-Li Tang (piano), Pin-Hsin Wang (electronics), and Kwan-Yuen Chen (guitar). Their first album Time was released in 2019 and their second album Symbols was released in 2023.

To my ears, their music is an intriguing mix of styles that include elements of post and math rock, electronics, classical, and fusion. Their second album has an overarching theme of ‘symbols’ where the individual tracks are based on concepts such as RNA, Pascal’s triangle, atoms.

Links to their Bandcamp page and their official site.

Here’s a video from their first album. The track is called Union Works.

This 2022 live performance includes tracks from the latest album.

Here is a recent live TV session.

EDIT: I have no idea if this got noticed but I changed the category to eclectic and now back to post rock based on Yam Yam's post. 

Edited by mathman0806 - October 02 2023 at 05:38

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mathman0806 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: June 06 2014 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 6414	Post Options Post Reply Quote mathman0806 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Go Go Machine Orchestra for Post Rock Posted: September 02 2023 at 10:48
	Go Go Machine Orchestra is a band from Taiwan founded in 2017 by percussionist Ting-Chun Yeh. Besides a drum kit, he plays the marimba. The other musicians in the band are Ni-Li Tang (piano), Pin-Hsin Wang (electronics), and Kwan-Yuen Chen (guitar). Their first album Time was released in 2019 and their second album Symbols was released in 2023. To my ears, their music is an intriguing mix of styles that include elements of post and math rock, electronics, classical, and fusion. Their second album has an overarching theme of ‘symbols’ where the individual tracks are based on concepts such as RNA, Pascal’s triangle, atoms. Links to their Bandcamp page and their official site. Here’s a video from their first album. The track is called Union Works. This 2022 live performance includes tracks from the latest album. Here is a recent live TV session. EDIT: I have no idea if this got noticed but I changed the category to eclectic and now back to post rock based on Yam Yam's post. Edited by mathman0806 - October 02 2023 at 05:38

mathman0806 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: June 06 2014 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 6414	Post Options Post Reply Quote mathman0806 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: September 02 2023 at 16:39
	Here's an older 2019 live in studio performance with their previous guitarist and fifth member on electronics who is no longer with the group.

mathman0806 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: June 06 2014 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 6414	Post Options Post Reply Quote mathman0806 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: September 16 2023 at 06:34
	I changed my suggestion of post/math to eclectic.

mathman0806 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: June 06 2014 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 6414	Post Options Post Reply Quote mathman0806 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: October 01 2023 at 13:01
	Any consideration?

yam yam Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Collaborator Crossover Team Joined: June 16 2011 Location: Kerberos Status: Offline Points: 6358	Post Options Post Reply Quote yam yam Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: October 02 2023 at 05:16
	For what it's worth, I also think that this band deserves to be evaluated for inclusion here, but I'd be tempted to stick with your original sub genre of Post Rock/Math Rock rather than Eclectic. Their first album 'Time' is tagged as Minimalism, Electronic, Post-Rock on RYM, and all three albums on bandcamp are tagged as Post Rock and Math Rock. You might recall a suggestion for the South Korean band Dongyang Gozupa a month or so ago which you contributed to a couple of times, and after a little discussion regarding the sub genre, Greg (Logan) suggested that with Post Rock being a prominent element, that would be the best place to start things off, and we do indeed have one 'yes' vote for them so far in Post Rock. There is a good summary of Go Go Machine Orchestra's style of music on this Trans Musicales page for the band: https://histoires.lestrans.com/fiche-artiste/go-go-machine-orchestra-2019: "Go Go Machine Orchestra PROG-ROCK The first Taiwanese group invited to the Trans Musicales, Go Go Machine Orchestra is one of these current groups (like Anna Meredith in 2016 or Thor & Friends in 2017) whose composite works take their sources from the minimalist or repetitive music of Steve Reich. But by mixing acoustic (marimba, drums, piano), electric (guitar) and electronic (synthesizer, machines) sounds, the quintet also draws on jazz, progressive rock and post-rock – sometimes echoing the music of Tortoise (Trans Musicales 1997) – to paint dreamlike and majestic soundscapes. Main genre: Jazz , Contemporary Music , Post-Rock , Prog-Rock Occasional type: Electronica , Minimalist Music Origin: Kaohsiung, Taiwan." I would tend to agree with that summary.

mathman0806 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: June 06 2014 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 6414	Post Options Post Reply Quote mathman0806 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: October 02 2023 at 05:44
	Thank you! The reason why I considered eclectic was that I think there are equal elements of post, math, jazz, classical, and electronic that post/math wasn't necessarily the dominant element. I would like the band to be considered so the title of thread has been changed.

Nogbad_The_Bad Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum & Site Admin Group RIO/Avant/Zeuhl & Eclectic Team Joined: March 16 2007 Location: Boston Status: Offline Points: 20848	Post Options Post Reply Quote Nogbad_The_Bad Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: October 02 2023 at 07:21
	If Post/Math don't want it it is likely to end up with Eclectic. We'll check it then.
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octopus-4 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator RIO/Avant/Zeuhl,Neo & Post/Math Teams Joined: October 31 2006 Location: Italy Status: Offline Points: 14110	Post Options Post Reply Quote octopus-4 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: October 04 2023 at 00:47
	So Eclectic first?
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yam yam Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Collaborator Crossover Team Joined: June 16 2011 Location: Kerberos Status: Offline Points: 6358	Post Options Post Reply Quote yam yam Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: October 04 2023 at 03:29
	^ My understanding from Ian's reply above was that his team would have a listen only if Post/Math decided it wasn't a suitable fit for their sub, which suggests that your own team should have a listen to the band's music in the first instance - as after all, they are tagged as Post Rock in several places. So perhaps you could first take a listen yourself, and if you feel that the music merits an evaluation in Post/Math Rock, take it to your team for the other members to have a listen and vote on it. If after listening to it you don't feel that the music merits an evaluation by your own team, then say so here, and Ian would then hopefully pick it up and take it to the Eclectic team for an evaluation.

octopus-4 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator RIO/Avant/Zeuhl,Neo & Post/Math Teams Joined: October 31 2006 Location: Italy Status: Offline Points: 14110	Post Options Post Reply Quote octopus-4 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: October 06 2023 at 03:52
	Listening to some tracks I hear elements fitting with both the subs. It depends on the track. Anyway, let's start with Post.
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Gordy Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Folk/Eclectic/PSIKE/Metal/Post/Math Team Joined: January 25 2007 Location: US Status: Offline Points: 4026	Post Options Post Reply Quote Gordy Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: July 16 2024 at 04:42
	Now added!