It’s been wondrous seeing some of the scenes in Southeast Asia merge and exchange with one another over the past couple of years - a testament to how much music plays a universal role in our lives. Case in point - Manila dreampop act Megumi Acorda - a supergroup of sorts formed by The Strange Creatures’ Megumi and featuring Evee Simon (July XIV, Spacedog Spacecat), Bijan Gorospe (The Strangeness, Grows), Kevin Ingco (Memory Drawers), and Jerros Dolino (Spacedog Spacecat) - finding their way to China with the help of some of our scene’s most wistful. Capturing ‘the synchrony of the melodic, fuzzed out, and the personal’, the band hits up Cave Art Venue with support from one of my favorite new acts this year - Handycam - with their rustic, nervy art rock sound.