Dirty Beaches is the performing title of the Taiwanese-Canadian musician Alex Zhang Hungtai. His new double album is called Drifters \/ Love Is the Devil <\/p>\n
Dirty Beaches is the performing title of the Taiwanese-Canadian musician Alex Zhang Hungtai. His new double album is called Drifters \/ Love Is the Devil <\/p>\n
Alex Zhang Hungtai is a musician who has spent his life drifting from home to home. His parents were children of communist China, and since setting out, he's lived in places as far-flung as Honolulu, Montreal and most recently, Berlin. <\/p>\n
Under the name Dirty Beaches, Hungtai makes washy, dreamy rock music that often feels nostalgic. Hungtai's whole last album was dedicated to his father; he was inspired after finding out his dad had been in a doo wop cover band during his youth in China. <\/p>\n
\"What was left of that was only a picture,\" he explains. \"There was no recordings; he didn't tell me what songs they played. It was just a photo that I found.\" <\/p>\n
But seeing his father in that photo was magnetic. <\/p>\n
\"He was wearing a suit. And he was surrounded by three guys two backup singers and one guitar player. And he was the one in front, standing in front of the microphone,\" he says. <\/p>\n
The experience moved Hungtai to look back at the rock music of the 1950s and '60s. The resulting album, Badlands, was at once disconnected and intensely personal. <\/p>\n
Hungtai's new album as Dirty Beaches is a twofer: a double-disc set called Drifters \/ Love Is The Devil. He spoke about it with NPR's Jacki Lyden; click the audio link to hear more of their conversation. <\/p>\n
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