I wrote a song about Chinese American and Taiwanese American history - "Gold Mountain Silicon Valley 金山矽谷" Lyrics and story: alfredtwu.medium.com/music-gold-m... Recording: soundcloud.com/user-3591883... - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

alfredtwu.com • 32 days ago

I wrote a song about Chinese American and Taiwanese American history - "Gold Mountain Silicon Valley 金山矽谷"

Lyrics and story:
https://alfredtwu.medium.com/music-gold-mountain-silicon-valley-%E9%87%91%E5%B1%B1%E7%9F%BD%E8%B0%B7-917734b60f3d

Recording: https://soundcloud.com/user-359188368/gold-mountain-silicon-valley

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alfredtwu.com•32 days ago

Here's the first page of the lyrics to "Gold Mountain Silicon Valley 金山矽谷". It's meant to be the sort of folk song one might put on to keep one’s spirit up while working.

I wrote most of the song while taking transit to Mountain View, and this song takes place on a @caltrain.com!

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alfredtwu.com•32 days ago

2nd page of lyrics to "Gold Mountain Silicon Valley 金山矽谷". One of the verses here is inspired by @urbanlandrent.foundation 's post https://bsky.app/profile/urbanlandrent.foundation/post/3loqttubog22r

"Dams and levees" refers to the Sacramento Delta as well as older parts of the East Bay's water system http://www.firehydrant.org/info/ebchina.html

alfredtwu.com•32 days ago

3rd page of lyrics to "Gold Mountain Silicon Valley 金山矽谷". Like almost all the art I make, there's a housing story in this song, talking about overcrowded housing in not just urban Chinatowns, but the suburbs of Silicon Valley, where for a long time, 10 new jobs are added for every 1 home built.

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alfredtwu.com•32 days ago

4th page of lyrics to "Gold Mountain Silicon Valley 金山矽谷" Birthright citizenship - established 1898 by court case US v. Wong Kim Ark - isn't the only thing under attack. Many Republican states have new alien land laws that ban buying some property & cause racial profiling https://medium.com/advancing-justice-aajc/s-b-264-floridas-discriminatory-alien-land-law-explained-477a4805f9d7

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alfredtwu.com•32 days ago

For those who want to sing along, here's an instrumental-only version of the song. I'll have a karaoke video out soon! https://soundcloud.com/user-359188368/gold-mountain-silicon-valley-instrumental