-12" Black LP
- Reverse Board Heavy Gatefold Cover with Obi
- Large A2 Poster
- Limited Edition of 248 (77 copies on Bandcamp)
(Final artwork will be published later)
Includes digital pre-order of 台灣謎景 Music from Taiwan Mystery.
You get 9 tracks now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
digital album releases May 7, 2021
item ships out on or around May 15, 2021
€19.80EURor more
Streaming + Download
Pre-order of 台灣謎景 Music from Taiwan Mystery. You get 9 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
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releases May 7, 2021
€10EUR or more
The book is a collection of Taiwan's cultural and mystic attractions, including special temples, purgatory facilities and Buddhist mummies, which took more than six months of fieldwork and photography to put together the book "Taiwan Mystery".
-12" Coloured LP
- Reverse Board Heavy Gatefold Cover with Obi
- Large A2 Poster
- Limited Edition of 248 (77 copies on Bandcamp)
(Final artwork and LP colour will be published later)
Includes digital pre-order of 台灣謎景 Music from Taiwan Mystery.
You get 9 tracks now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
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Taiwan Mystery Art Book Vol. I 《台灣謎景》上集
The book is a collection of Taiwan's cultural and mystic attractions, including special temples, purgatory facilities and Buddhist mummies, which took more than six months of fieldwork and photography to put together the book "Taiwan Mystery".
▼WV053: Mong Tong 夢東 - 台灣謎景 Music from Taiwan Mystery
This LP record is the soundtrack of Mong Tong's art book series "台灣謎景 Taiwan Mystery". The book is a collection of Taiwan's cultural and mystic attractions, including special temples, purgatory facilities and Buddhist mummies, which took more than six months of fieldwork and photography to put together the book "Taiwan Mystery".
(The art book of "Taiwan Mystery" I & II will be put on Bandcamp later.)
"台灣謎景 Music from Taiwan Mystery" I & II limited cassettes originally released by Karma Detonation Tapes in 2019-2021. This LP includes both releases with remastered audio.
“Each book is a luxuriant assemblage of photos capturing mystical esoterica from across Taiwan: temples, purgatory facilities, Buddhist mummies, unusual buildings, phallic worship shrines. As audio accompaniment, Music from Taiwan Mystery augments the hand-assembled feel with a blend of slow-paced electronic psychedelia mashed gracefully with samples from vintage video games and film.”
- Bandcamp Daily, Album of the Day
daily.bandcamp.com/album-of-the-day/mong-tong-music-from-taiwan-mystery-review
"Mong Tong can be seen as representative of larger trends in the bleeding edge of the Taiwanese music scene, then, while also distinctive in their own right. But it could be that Mong Tong’s in-betweenness is precisely what makes them so distinctive."
- Wepresent
wepresent.wetransfer.com/story/mong-tong
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Mong Tong is brothers Hom Yu, Jiun Chi (they also play in Prairie WWWW 落差草原 WWWW & Dope Purple) and 仝. They listened to what they describe as "Dianziqin music 電子琴音樂" along with video game soundtracks, vintage Asian movie samples and psychedelic music. These inspirations combine with Taiwanese folklore and a love of conspiracy theories to form what they describe as "superstitious music". Mong Tong means many things in Chinese, but the translation they choose to fit their music is “the east-side of dreams”.
credits
releases May 7, 2021
Mong Tong 夢東:
洪御 Hom Yu, 郡崎 Jiun Chi & 仝
All songs & book made by Mong Tong
Mixing & mastered by Hom Yu 洪御
Vinyl mastered by Cyril Meysson
Vinyl design by 若潭 Ruò Tán & Jared Xu
Book cover & graphic design by EG
Portrait photo by Archi Chang
supported by 59 fans who also own “台灣謎景 Music from Taiwan Mystery”
Intoxicating, leftfield trip of loping grooves and cryptic atmospheres. Sun Araw by way of 80s Asian schlock-horror and Japanese videogame music. ironicmoustache
supported by 32 fans who also own “台灣謎景 Music from Taiwan Mystery”
Another very accessible and beautiful piece of work by Kikagaku Moyo. Some haunting psych-tunes with a more or less folky edge dominate on this album. Very hard to choose a favourite. Papa Jay (Radio Smorgasbord)
Less a solo act than a one-man megalith, Khôra builds impressive experimental soundscapes from modular synths, flutes, harps, and more. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 19, 2020
supported by 30 fans who also own “台灣謎景 Music from Taiwan Mystery”
The most traditional psych-rock project these guys have made. They stick to the classic formula but adding their own twists and turns to each song. Kodama is the absolute stand-out for me and is genuinely my favorite Kikagaku Moyo song of all time and not gonna lie, the 2021 reissue gold vinyl looks so cool!
PLAY THIS SHIT AT A PARTY AND GO CRAZY!!! naakz