This week, international and Chinese bands will play rock and jazz at B10 Live.

    Bands Monoswezi and MonkeyBar will perform Tuesday night. French jazz band Migrant will offer modern jazz Thursday night.

    Monoswezi is a collective of musicians originally from Mozambique, Norway, Sweden and Zimbabwe. With a common passion for traditional African music in general, Monoswezi seeks a musical expression, where respect for tradition is combined with different references and experiences from jazz and modern music.

    MonkeyBar is a Scandinavian duo consisting of Steiner Nickelsen and Erik Nylander. They create live driving techno with off-kilter drumming, swollen synth lines and deep bass drones: evocative of epic days filled with darkness in the northernmost fjords of Scandinavia. Their sets are improvised, taking the audience with them on a journey of synesthesia: playful, yet viscerally emotive. They use their instruments to provide a portal to outer-body experiences, responding to each crowd and atmosphere as they see fit.

    With a long history of jazz practice and performance, Nickelsen was honored Young Jazz Musician of the Year in his native Norway, and Nylander, originally from Sweden, is one of Norway’s most active drummers, frequently touring and playing in multiple bands and recording sessions.

    On Friday, Chinese band Low Wormwood from Lanzhou, the capital city of Gansu Province, will sing folk. Their style is a mix of rock and experimental elements. Low Wormwood observes the world using their music from the unique perspective of a northwesterner from China, mixed with strong feelings for their hometown, Lanzhou, a valley city with the Yellow River crossing between two mountain ridges. “Lanzhou Lanzhou” is the band’s second album, named after the first track “Lanzhou Lanzhou,” which was issued in 2011. Though “Lanzhou Lanzhou” is written as a reference to the band’s hometown, it is widely acknowledged by many people from different places who left their hometown. In July 2012, the band won the Best Chinese Band award at the 2012 Chinese Media Music Awards in Macao.

    Nine Treasures, a folk metal band from Inner Mongolia, will take the stage Saturday. Four of the five members are Mongolian. All the lyrics are in Mongolian. The five musicians started playing together in Beijing at the end of 2010. What sets them apart is the spirit of their music. The songs are joyful and enthusiastic, at the same time rich in emotions. They have so far released two albums and one EP and played numerous concerts in China. They competed in Wacken Metal Battles 2013 and reached second place. Since then, they completed two more European tours in October and November 2015 and July 2016.

    Time: 8:30 p.m., Nov. 15 (Monoswezi + MonkeyBar), 17 (Migrant), 18 (Low Wormwood), 19 (Nine Treasures)

    Tickets: 60-80 yuan (Monoswezi + MonkeyBar) (Migrant), 100-120 yuan (Low Wormwood), 80-100 yuan (Nine Treasures)

    Venue: B10 Live, North Area, OCT-LOFT, Nanshan District (南山区华侨城创意文化园北区B10)

    Metro: Line 1, Qiaocheng East Station (侨城东站), Exit A

    (SD News)