Crystal Records Releases Sounds from the Depths of Taiwan

Source: Crystal Records
From: Wikipedia. Date: Last revised January 28, 2016. Author: Collaborative authors

Crystal Sound Publications, commonly known as Crystal Records, is a Taiwan record label founded in 1986 by the Korean-Japanese Jen Chiang-ta and his wife Lin Tzu-ling. It organised four editions of the “Taipei New Music Festival” and in 1991 released field-recording publications including Sounds from the Bottom of Taiwan and the Taiwan Sound Archive. Reflecting on Taiwan’s “local consciousness” prompted Crystal Records to explore and document sounds that could profoundly represent the totality of Taiwan’s local character. The collection of folk music with local characteristics — Sounds from the Bottom of Taiwan — is one such example.

Sounds from the Bottom of Taiwan, boxed edition

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• Advancing into the 90s — An Overview of Underground Music Development in Post-Martial-Law Taiwan (Serious Music/Book Fan’s Ultraka Room)
• The Driving Force behind Taiwan’s Underground Music — Crystal Records’ New Music Path (Music Notes)