JOHN TSUNG’s Empire Postcards is an album of Asian American stories, as told through American strains of rock, indie, and folk. These narratives stem from interviews and conversations with immigrants across the continent that TSUNG held over the last three years. They embody a wide range of stories–concerning love, loss, patriotism, and regret–that challenge conventional wisdom about being Asian American. Throughout these songs, TSUNG mixes these myriad diasporic experiences with...
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New York-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist JOHN TSUNG has announced his new album Empire Postcards, alongside the release of his new single ‘Taking of a Nation‘ – out now via Broken Stone Records / Remote Control Records. Serving as the centrepiece of the record, ‘Taking of a Nation’ is a 7-minute indie rock epic written before the 2020 election, at a moment of national unease. The words are from TSUNG’s conversations with patriotic Asian...
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New York-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist JOHN TSUNG has shared his debut single ‘Eastern Standard‘ via Broken Stone Records / Remote Control Records. The lead single of forthcoming album Empire Postcards, the influence of alternative greats like PJ Harvey seeps into ‘Eastern Standard,’ where TSUNG points to the perplexity of Asian Americanness (“Fraud or faker, native liar/Alien or traitor/Skin loyalty, what lies beneath/Gets paler day by day”). JOHN TSUNG’s Empire Postcards...
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