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Wasia Undertaking

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Wasia Undertaking

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  • “Anyone Come Via”
  • “Inform Me Lies (fin)”
  • “Is This What Love Is?”
  • “Take Me Again Residence”
  • “To Get Higher”

Siblings Olivia Hardy and William Gao shaped their band, Wasia Undertaking, of their teenagers.

On at present’s present, they carry out songs from their newest EP, Isotope, they usually speak concerning the inventive affect of their classical musical upbringing, how they began to develop their very own tastes collectively, and concerning the affect of rising up between two cultures — they reside within the U.Okay. and take common journeys to China to go to their mother’s aspect of the household.

“I believe it is like an openness, actually, to, like, absorbing data and being open to, like, distinction,” Hardy says.

Additionally they speak about how their aspect gigs have an effect on how they make music collectively, like Gao’s starring position within the Netflix present Heartstopper.

“If you end up down one inventive path or you might be so intensely one, it positively frees a little bit of area within the different aspect of your mind,” he says.

This episode of World Cafe was produced and edited by Kimberly Junod. The online story was created by Miguel Perez. Our engineer is Chris Williams. Our programming and reserving coordinator is Chelsea Johnson and our line producer is Will Loftus.

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