By Ho ChieDate: March 2, 2011Posted in: NationalTags:
Singer-songwriter Alanna Lin, aka Fascinoma, recently finished a new album with her friend, Monk Turner. It’s actually a really cool concept album covering the theme of “The Big One” and the songs address normal life, disaster, and onward to new beginnings.
You can check out the whole album at http://fascinoma.bandcamp.com/album/emergency-songs
If you’d like to become what Alanna calls “an Emergency Patron,” you can donate $10 for the download.
I’m not sure if she’s serious about this part, but I wouldn’t be surprised if she followed through: With enough help from concerned citizens, she’ll make copies to send to City Hall, perhaps even renting a helicopter to do the drop-off…
Anyways, take a listen. She’s got a great sound!
About the Author

Ho Chie Tsai is a founding Board Member who also wears many hats in the Taiwanese American community. As a frequent speaker on the collegiate conference circuit and youth summer camp programs, a past Program Director and current Board Member of the Taiwanese American Foundation, and a founder of the Taiwanese American Professionals chapter in San Francisco, he hopes to inspire a renewed sense of pride in personal identity and to increase activism and involvement within the greater Asian American community. Ho Chie holds an Electrical Engineering BS degree from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a Bioengineering MS and an MD degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago. In his spare time, he works as a pediatrician.