First Lineup Announced for 2025 Rye Music Festival｜Open your senses with music!
The tides of the Okinawan shamisen roam the earth.
The pulses of electron nuclei crash into the heartbeat of the city.
Poetic chants and 10,000 choruses resonate at twilight
Musical explorers from all over the world
will create a sonic map to a new land.
Acoustic Journey Across Latitude and Longitude
Rimi Natsukawa lands on the island with the wind of healing
Ruxuan wei waa wei weaves a rainy night in Taipei with murmurs and whispers
Temples psychedelic rock reconstructs the dimension of time and space
Shengxiang Band watering the natural wilderness with land ballads
Soulful singer Liang Bo's golden resonance cures the lost heart
Shanghai Qiutian, Silent Orange, KyoYoKo
Post-rock gears, math rock and synthesizer waves in a precise bite
Satomi NATSUKAWA: Okinawan Songstress The Voice of Heaven --- Satomi NATSUKAWA, born in Ishigaki Island, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, has been praised as a “walking vinyl record”, and has been described as “a voice that comes out only after 40 years”. She is also known as “the voice that only comes out in forty years”. With her penetrating voice and profound musical skills, she has won wide acclaim at home and abroad. Each of her songs carries the precipitation of time and rich cultural heritage.
Her representative works have penetrated into the hearts of the people, and the regional terroir and delicate emotions of Okinawa flow between every note in her interpretation. In every performance, Satomi Natsukawa presents a musical feast full of Okinawan flavors with her outstanding live strength.
waa wei: Singer-songwriter/radio DJ/actress/singer/writer, her field is wide, and in her multiple roles, nothing seems to be too difficult for her. Sometimes sweet, sometimes sensual, her voice is extremely dramatic and her unique voice holds the temperature in her musical work. With several albums, she won the Best Mandarin Female Vocalist award at the 31st Golden Melody Awards and has acted in several musicals and TV dramas. She was also invited to be the resident singer of the music reality show “The Voice - Treasure Island Season”.
Temples: English retro psychedelic rock band Temples was founded by vocalist/guitarist James Bagshaw and bassist Tom Walmsley, who were later joined by keyboardist Adam Smith and drummer Rens Ottink. 2012 saw the release of their debut single, “Shelter Song,” followed by their signing to ATO Records and began touring internationally.
Temples have appeared on such notable programs as The Tonight Show and have performed at major festivals around the world. The band has released four albums, with their debut “Sun Structures” reaching #7 on the UK charts. This is the first time the band has played in China since their formation, so let's see what the boys have in store for us!
Shengxiang Band: The creative core of Shengxiang Band is Lin Shengxiang and Chung Wing Fung, whose lyrical collaboration began in 1998 with the album “I'll Come and Sing Mountain Songs” during the period of the Jiaogong Band, and has released ten albums so far. Chung has won two Golden Melody Awards for Best Lyricist, while Lin has ten Golden Melody Awards, ten Golden Music Composition Awards, two Golden Horse Awards, and one Taipei Film Award. Japanese nationals Ken Otake and Toru Hayakawa joined the band in 2006 and 2009 respectively, while Noriaki Fukushima and Huang Boyu became members in 2014. The musicians are all trained in jazz improvisation, and each of their live performances is a pleasant surprise.
Shengxiang's work focuses on farm workers and environmental issues, and their music is based on traditional folk music elements, harmonized with contemporary Western music, making the folksy sound meet rock. Since 2001, the band has gone international, touring more than a dozen countries in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. In July 2018, the band performed on the Summer Stage in New York City's Central Park, spreading its unique rural rock sound to the international community.
Liang Bo: Male singer and music singer-songwriter from Mainland China. His representative works include “Boys”, “Appear and Leave”, “Sunset Boulevard”, “Used to be a Couple”, “In the Dark” and so on.
Shanghai Qiutian: Shanghai Qiutian, a rock band from China to the world.
Silent Orange: improvisation formed in Wuhan, 2021. Attempting to emulate Eliot and Kusturica playing music in the millennium, their music is a poor imitation of sensibility over aesthetics.
KyoYoKo: Hailing from Beijing, KyoYoko was formed in 2020 by a coincidence as uncertain as their music. Obsessed with post-punk beats, KyoYoko weaves a post-apocalyptic industrial soundscape with cold electronic tones and free jazz agility. 2022 saw the release of their debut full-length album “Gorrrre!” in May, which was recognized as one of the top ten albums of the year by MusicCare. In the past two years, the band has not only appeared at domestic festivals such as MIDI, Strawberry and Spring Tour, but has also been invited to perform at international festivals such as Zandari in Seoul, BiKN in Tokyo, Mayfest in Vladivostok and White in Novosibirsk.
The Symbiosis of Violence and Tenderness Live
HYPER SLASH Super Chop triggers a secondary nuclear energy storm
Xu Jun's Coarse Voice Tears Open the Truth of Life
Crispberry melts the steel forest with romantic synthesizers
Ideal Bastards Bestards with a heart of gold
Sincerity Answers the World's Questions
Asia's Newspaper Boy Shatters Beautifully Lying Windows to Find Silenced Truths
HYPER SLASH: Founded in Guangzhou in 2016, HYPER SLASH is a burning nerdcore, electrocore and alternative rock band. The band's signature girl vocal, anime flavor, fierce rhythms, and unique 8-bit tones are a mix of elements that can be described as mind-blowing. The band's new generation of youthful, magical, and raucous tunes, coupled with an extremely frenzied stage show, present a unique view of the otherworldly world.
Xu Jun: Singer-songwriter/arranger/producer, one of the most professionally recognized and acclaimed singer-songwriters in the Chinese music industry. Xu Jun is one of the most recognized and acclaimed singer-songwriters in the Chinese music industry. His music creations are both musical and popular, injecting Chinese pop with sincerity, sensibility and passion that goes straight to the heart. His personal works have been shortlisted for many awards at the Golden Melody Awards and widely recognized in the industry. His latest album “Expectation Set” was shortlisted for seven awards at the 35th Golden Melody Awards and won the Best Composer and Best Arranger awards, and was successfully unveiled in the “Singer 2024” in the same year, and has been widely acclaimed for its on-site strength.
The Crispberries: Rebellion and elegance have never been two sides of a confrontation, they intersect with this fresh intersection of time to form a stream of fashion. Translating all of this into the passion and emotion they put into every time they stand on stage. After the torture of time, Crispy Berry has added an extra layer of true expression of life and compassion for love. “Sometimes you shed tears, but love is still the best thing in our lives”. The music exhibits regret and a sense of powerlessness over time. The occasional struggle and candor. Bursts of tension behind stoic restraint, with only love to back it up.
Ideal Assholes Bestards: officially formed in October 2017 in Taipei. “Ideal” and ‘asshole’ are two very different words that are fused together, just like the fact that everyone has both strengths and weaknesses, but that's what makes everyone so unique, imperfect but perfect. In an era where the “misogynistic generation” is commonly referred to as the “misogynistic generation”, Ideal Assholes is looking forward to bringing a different kind of positive energy to the world, conveying the spirit of dreaming bravely and being fearless.
ASIANA NEWSPAPER CHILD: Even after the passion has been burned out, there is still enough left to ignite the withered grass again. The sea is still rippling even after the evening sun disappears. This is the pride and disdain that even failure cannot take away.
SUNSET MOMENT in Rye Guests of Honor
“One day I watched the sun set forty-four times” - ‘The Little Prince’.
At the end of the day
Stage, installation and music echo each other
The stage, the installation and the music are in harmony
Sealing the amber of sound and light at the approaching twilight.
A romantic sunset and twilight
Sound Toys, Shanghai Rainbow Chamber Choir
Sing the echoes of the sunset with your soul.
Sound Toys: Sound Toys was founded in 1999 in Chengdu, Sichuan Province by singer-guitarist and songwriter Ou Jia Yuan. The diversity of Sound Toys' music has always been difficult to define and categorize, but the keywords of Chengdu - humidity, warmth, and beauty - can also be used to describe Sound Toys' music. In a sense, Sound Toys can be seen as the beginning of Chengdu's rock history.
Shanghai Rainbow Chamber Choir: Founded in 2010, the current artistic director Jin Chengzhi, the choir is composed of senior choral enthusiasts from all over the country, from all walks of life. Shanghai Rainbow Chamber Choir performs original works and is committed to spreading the charm of choral performance and exploring the boundaries of choral art.
Rye Music Festival 2025
To discover, to experience
Time/Time
April 12th-13th
Location/Venue
Wuhan Airport Music Plaza
Ticketing Platform
DAMAC/XiuDong/Cat's Eye/NaiTickets/Ticket Planet Poly Ticketing/Ticketing Bee/Ticket Bee/HaoMai Ten Percent Live/HipTickets