Bitter Party | About the Band
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About the Band

Bitter Party is a Los-Angeles-based ghost pop band inspired by war-era music and the melancholy of life. Immersing themselves in the rich repertoire of folk, pop, and obscure tunes from Asia, their performance references the music in each of their pasts through dusty tapes, songbooks, vinyls, and YouTube channels. They re-animate these transmigrated sounds with megaphones, sanshin, and chiptune aesthetics. Pinball disco, electro enka, postcolonial ethnographic pop.

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Linda Wei

Bass / Glockenspiel / Melodica / Vox

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Umi Hsu

Keys / Electronics / Guitar / Sanshin / Vox

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Jacob Alden Sargent

Drums / Guitar / Vox

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Nathan Lam Vuong

Strings / Vox

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Grace Umali

Drums / Percussion / Guitar / Vox

From the Press
This quartet is uniquely appropriate for the benefit concert, taking inspiration and energy from Taiwanese and Vietnamese immigrant culture as well as the contemporary art scene. -- Martin Wong, Giant Robot
“The music was so soulful and melancholy, it kind of felt like a love letter to past generations. -- Meldia Yesayan, Director of Oxy Arts
A city not only known for its proliferating Latino and Asian populations, but also its artists who are willing to engage in spaces that share in L.A.'s multiethnic ecologies... Bitter Party comes in with their offer of 'Ghost Pop.' -- George Villanueva, KCET