The Majestic G, an original funk/soul septet, consisting members of active music veterans in Hong Kong, spanning across a wide music spectrum including pop, jazz, soul, funk, indie rock, classical music, contemporary music and traditional Chinese music, at the highest professional level, and with worldwide exposures.

We believe that we are all connected by a universal vibration of life, and that vibe, is the source of our creativity.

Laterna magika initially came into being as a representative cultural programme devised with the aim to promote the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic at Expo 58, which took place from 17 April to 19 November 1958 in Brussels. The project was entrusted to the stage director Alfréd Radok and the set designer Josef Svoboda, who duly brought to fruition the idea of combining film projection and live stage performance. The programme took the form of a mixed bill made up of individual numbers connected by a presenter’s performances, which were pre-recorded in several languages and screened in a manner that came across as a seeming interaction of the actress on stage with her images and between each of these. The same principle was applied in the design of the other numbers, which made use of music, dance and live acting. Another collaborators were future successful directors Miloš Forman, Jan Svitáček and Ján Roháč.

The project was given the title Laterna magika and was instrumental in Czechoslovakia’s success at Expo 58. The pavilion attained the highest number of points and was awarded the Gold Star, received 56 other prizes and numerous diplomas and medals. At the time when the programme was presented at Expo and shortly after it had finished, Laterna magika was invited to give performances in the USSR, Syria, Egypt, the USA, England, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Spain and Israel, while representatives of other countries were interested in possible granting of a licence. Laterna magika duly became a globally renowned trademark and following its return to Czechoslovakia it launched its official activity, on 9 May 1959, as an independent company of the National Theatre, performing at the Adria Palace (on the corner of Národní třída and Jungmann Square) in Prague.

The programme, consisting of a variety of numbers, was above all the joint work of Alfréd Radok and Josef Svoboda, who right from the outset had defined the principles of relations between the action on stage and film, which have been developed by Laterna magika up to the present day: projection is not only a mobile backdrop, nor does it only create an appearance of reality, the key factor is the interconnection between the content of what is happening on stage and the action on the film screen. Today, Laterna magika employs a wide spectrum of media with which, with regard to its rich history, it has ample experience, thus every performance is based on a different principle of connecting the stage and the image.

Laika & The Unit evolves freely between alternative jazz and experimental sounds.