We heard about the group “The Hsu-nami” a few weeks ago. Since today is the Lunar New Year, we thought you might get s kick out of listening to this group. Listening to The Hsu-nami reminded us of a much edgier 12 Girls Band playing modern music with classical Chinese instruments. Nice play on the word tsunami too!

The Hsu-nami has been featured on MTV Iggy, mtv2 and mtvU. Also their song “Rising of the Sun” played at the Beijing Olympic Basketball Arena representing the China National Basketball Team’s Entrance Theme. That’s cool!! If you like to vibe of their music, their second anticipated album “The Four Noble Truths” will be released on March 24th.

Add The Hsu-nami as your MySpace friend.

The Hsu-nami – Rising of the Sun (Music Video)

The Hsu-nami – The Godfather Theme

More about The Hsu-nami

The Hsu-nami is a Progressive Rock instrumental band from New Jersey, United States. With a front Chinese instrument the Er-Hu (Chinese Violin). “The Hsu-nami” named after founder Jack Hsu, is known for virtuoso melodic Erhu, heavy guitar riffs and tasteful guitar solos in their music to add to the “progressive Asian soundscape” effect.

The first Erhu Prog Rock Group in the world. Their music features a high level of musicianship that fusion metal, psychedelic, prog rock to funk, incorporating the use of an amplified Erhu, a two-string bowed instrument that is often used in Chinese classical music and folk ensembles, takes the place of lead vocals.

From the band’s intense raw live shows, the music will stand the test of time because of it’s culture values and the highly unique sound. You just got to hear to believe it.

Just like the multi-platinum artist Vanessa Mae (the first ever violinist that fuse classical traditional violin with modern/rock/pop music.) Hsu-nami is the first ever Chinese Erhu focused band that fuses different style depth of the modern rock music.

Imagine the music of “12 girls band” from China (12 piece Chinese traditional orchestra playing modern/acoustic/pop music). But… adds the heavy Metallica, GNR influence guitars riffs and a lot more badass solos and breakdowns and makes you want to just rock out and head bang.