About Sheng Xiang & Water3

　A founding member of the now-defunct Labor Exchange Band, Sheng Xiang is a Hakka social activist and musician who was involved in the anti-Meinung Dam movement of the 1990s. He documented the stories and feelings of the Hakka in the Labor Exchange Band's award-winning album "Let's Sing Mountain Songs".

　After the Labor Exchange Band disbanded, Sheng Xiang and Yongfeng still collaborated together to compose songs. They also found Mark, Peng Jiaxi (Mark Peng), a harmonica player; Lu Jiajun (Xiao Liu), a fretless bass player; Zhong Yufeng, a lute player (three-string, moon guitar and pipa-lute); and others to help with the album "Getting Dark." Each time before practice, the musicians would rush to the mountain district of Danshui to find the small road leading to Shuiyuan Village that ended up at the Tile Kiln Pit Compound. There they took up the work of composing songs. The music started in the ambiance of the farm compound, harmonized with the cicada calls and birdsong of the mountainside woods, under the cries of circling eagles in the summer sky….

　The musicians really liked the feeling of making music in the Tile Kiln Pit Compound, so "Sheng Xiang & Water 3" was born.

　The album "Getting Dark" combines the wandering poeticism of Yongfeng, the folksong style of Sheng-xiang, the crazy but precise harmonica of Little Peng, the congealed purity of Little Six's bass, the traditional flavor of Yufeng's strings and the tone of life and nature's harmonies.