“Who Flung Dung” is the first single from ESP-Disk’ artists Pause & Effect will be released by ESP on vinyl this fall. Anti-Asian racism is not new. This track was not written in response to recent events — it was recorded in December 2019, before Covid-19 hit the U.S. and, in an evil domino effect, led to anti-Chinese rhetoric promoted by Donald Trump in an effort to shift the blame for his ineffectual response to the pandemic But, given the current attacks on Asians, it’s a track with unfortunate timeliness. Rose Tang (voice, electric guitar) is a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, movement performer, poet, concert curator, visual artist, activist and journalist. In short, she’s a multi-disciplinary, multi-media and multi-lingual artist, event host, and “trouble” maker. She grew up in Guizhou, Sichuan, Fujian, Beijing, and Australia, and is of Mongol and Chinese descent. She was born in Guiyang in southwestern China, where her Mongol ancestors had been exiled. Tang plays in about 30 bands and ensembles in New York and Seattle. Tang, who hates being labeled, calls her music genre “weird shit.” She studied at Sichuan Fine Art Academy in Chongqing, studied English, politics, and history in colleges in Beijing, Sydney, and Perth where she also worked as a print, TV, and radio journalist. A radio reporter and documentary maker in the outbacks of Western Australia, she was one of the first journalists to expose police brutality against Aboriginal Australians, refugees, and immigrants. Tang is the first Chinese-born journalist to win national and international awards in Hong Kong, Australia, and the U.S. She started to play music regularly in 2017, under the mentorship of legendary multi-instrumentalist/improviser/poet Daniel Carter.