
Wei-Jie Huang and Submontane Band
DH Café (No. 153, Section 3, Zhongshan North Road, Zhongshan District, Taipei City)
$500/ person【Including one serving of specialty drinks and a reading list of Wei-Jie's book recommendation】
Wei-Jie Huang and Submontane Band will perform the opening show of their new album tour, Mu Ma, at DH Café. Crafted over five years, Mu Ma confronts the shadows and depicts people’s journeys inward and back to themselves. It guides listeners into the darkness of night, gently sharing their inner thoughts and stories and quietly awaiting the faint light that may fall. The performance will begin at dusk, inviting attendees to experience the shifting sky within the bookstore’s glass-enclosed space and to be immersed in the music.
“Mu Ma” in Southern Hakka refers to the twilight period between dusk and evening—a moment when night is taking the place of day. Visually, it is the darkest hour. As the summer heat intensifies, Wei-Jie Huang and the Submontane Band perform their new album Mu Ma during the Taipei stop of their tour at the DH Café. They guided listeners into the inner shadows at nightfall, gently sharing personal emotions and stories, quietly awaiting the faint light to fall amidst the darkness. The performance begins at twilight, inside the glass-enclosed space of the DH Café, where singers, musicians, and audience experience the shifting play of light and time together through flowing music. At this moment, the building serves as a speaker suspended in the night sky and also a shape-shifting transparent box.
The relationship between people and this space changes continuously with each event—architecture shapes life, and life defines architecture. If we imagine the DH Café as the space capsule endlessly drifting through the universe in Wang Da-Hong’s novel Phantasmagoria, could we become those elegant souls who discuss philosophy, savor fine food, and enjoy music daily aboard the ship? While we may not live as luxuriously as Prince Dino and his friends in the novel, we can still hold onto the pursuit of beauty and meaning, rooting it deeply in our culture. The DH Café builds upon this hope, layering each performance and event with that spirit.