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An Acoustic Evening with Jason Mraz and Raining Jane @ AsiaWorld Arena – 8pm, 27 March, 2015

An Acoustic Evening with Jason Mraz and Raining Jane @ AsiaWorld Arena - 8pm, 27 March, 2015

American singer-songwriter Jason Mraz has sold over 7 million albums worldwide since the release of his 2002 debut studio album Waiting for My Rocket to Come, which contained the hit single The Remedy (I Won’t Worry). Commercial success, three more studio albums Mr. A-Z, (2005), We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things (2008), Love Is a Four Letter Word, (2010), multiple hit singles and two Grammy Awards have followed. In 2014 Mraz released his first acoustic album (and fifth studio album) Yes. Recorded and written with Raining Jane – the pair are undertaking a global tour to support its release and arrive in Hong Kong on the 27 March.

An Acoustic Evening with Jason Mraz and Raining Jane – Live In Hong Kong
When: 8pm, 27 March, 2015
Where: AsiaWorld-Expo, Arena
How much: $888, $688, $488, $388 from HKTicketing
More info: tickets on sale 13 February

Émilie Simon @ Grappa’s Cellar – 26 March, 2015

Émilie Simon @ Grappa's Cellar - 26 March, 2015

With her unique mix of electronic, pop, and Bjork-like vocals, Émilie Simon has performed at sold-out shows across the world. Now, following on from her sold out show in Hong Kong in 2010, Emilie Simon is back this March.

Surrounded by music from an early age, Émilie Simon won critical plaudits as early as 2003, when she recorded a debut album largely written, composed and produced by herself. The self-titled record, Émilie Simon, won Album of the Year at Victoires de la Musique, France’s most prestigious music award ceremony.

Born in Montpellier in Southern France, Émilie grew up bathed in the Mediterranean sun and immersed in the sound of clarinets and electronic melodies. Wishing to imbue her second album with a more wintry and polar vibe, she began to record sounds that related to coldness.

Coincidentally, in the midst of her search for sounds for the album, she was contacted by film producer Luc Jacquet to compose the original soundtrack for his Oscar award-winning documentary film La Marche de l’empereur (March of the Penguins), concerning the annual migration of emperor penguins.

In 2009, Émilie started writing songs arranged for accompaniment on piano, rather than a computer. “I even forbade myself to go near a computer for a year and a half,” Emilie said, “I wanted to see what I was capable of without my usual comforts around me.” The result was a collection of sounds reflecting Émilie’s impression of New York City — an urban, black and white musical that became her most recent album, The Big Machine. On this album, Émilie’s experimental inclination involved the clever use of traditional Chinese instruments – together with keyboards – as a vestige of her long stay in the heart of Chinatown.

In 2011, the album Franky Night, (dedicated to her late fiancé) won her many more fans in France as most of the tracks were sung in French, as opposed to English. Her latest album, Mue, hit markets in 2014 and includes tracks like Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Games” cover, and other heartfelt songs featuring both English and French lyrics.

Émilie Simon
When:– 8pm, 26 March, 2015
Where: Grappa’s Cellar
Tickets: $420 (inc one drink) from Ticketflap
More info: www.emiliesimon.com