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Nirosta Steel
Cool Fire

Compil. 2014 on Buddhist Army label
(Downtempo)

Copyright 1999 Olala Music Published by GIZMO FUN (ASCAP) COOL FIRE is the documentation of a series of landmark concerts by Steven Hall aka NIROSTA STEEL presented at Gin Gin Bookstore and Gallery in Taipei in 1999 produced by Jim Shum for O La La Music Taiwan Gin Gin Bookstore and Gallery was the first and only LGBT bookstore in the country at that time--the gay community was still very much in the closet in those days--COOL FIRE was the first "queer music" cd released in Taiwan and although it was only sold in their bookstore and never distributed became an underground hit Gin Gin Bookstore and its accompanying art gallery was struggling to survive then--in the months before the concerts harassment by the local Chinese community resulted in police raids and a trial on obscenity charges which the bookstore eventually won "The week before opening night the front window of the bookstore was shattered by a brick and was just repaired in time for my concert--then the local police raided us and halted the concert but fortunately good sense prevailed--the police turned out to be reasonable and after they determined that nothing illegal was happening I was allowed to finish my performance and the rest of the series proceeded without incident!" ~Steven Hall

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