The TENG Company's video: City By Moonlight x Dayung Sampan

Tian Mi Mi’s source material comes from the Indonesian folk song Dayung Sampan (Row Your Boat). The original folk song speaks of rowing a wooden boat also known as a sampan and the catching of fish. The lyricist Zhuang Nu reworked the lyrics of the original folk song and turned the piece into a love ballad that is well loved by Mandarin speakers all over the world. City by Moonlight uses the same source material to recreate an instrumental ballad for Pipa, Sheng, Guitar, Cello and Electronics. The TENG Ensemble’s version of the piece uses the musical concept of antiphony or “call and response” to hark back to Dayung Sampan’s original Indonesian roots and an arrangement that seeks to retain the sentimentality and expressiveness conveyed by Teresa Teng’s Tian Mi Mi. -- PRESENTED BY: The TENG Ensemble - http://www.facebook.com/theTENGcompany Fiction Shore - http://fictionshore.com Composer: Chow Jun Yi https://about.me/junyi.chow Arranger/Producer: Huang Peh Linde Recording & Mixing Engineer: Huang Peh Linde PRODUCTION TEAM: Music video produced by Fiction Shore http://fictionshore.com Director/Editor: Looi Wan Ping Director of Photography/Colourist: Looi Wan Ping Producers: Chu Hao Pei, Koo Chia Meng -- ABOUT THE ENSEMBLE: The TENG Ensemble bridges the traditional and contemporary, the East and West, and the old and new. Their unique brand of music has brought them to cities such as Melbourne, Shanghai, Seoul, Manila, Hong Kong, and Kuala Lumpur, where they presented Singaporean music to an international audience and received unanimous acclaim. As a collective of music educators, scholars and award-winning instrumentalists, the ensemble constantly looks to break new ground with familiar yet refreshing and accessible yet enigmatic music. The TENG Ensemble is the anchor ensemble of The TENG Company, a non-profit arts organisation that aims to be a leading and inspirational contributor to a Singaporean sound that is current, innovative, visionary and urban—guided by Asian aesthetics. www.thetengcompany.com www.facebook.com/theTENGensemble www.instagram/theTENGensemble info@thetengcompany.com The Teng Ensemble Ltd is proud to be supported by Temasek and is a recipient of the National Arts Council's Seed Grant for the period from 1 April 2015 to 31 March 2018.