“WE DIDN’T THINK we would become musicians,” says Tell Chang, who started Taiwanese progressive math-rock trio Elephant Gym with his bass-playing sister KT and school friend Chia-Chin Tu on drums. As kids, Tell and KT learnt classical piano from their mother, although they weren’t the most diligent students. “We hated practising and our mother punished us every class,” Tell explains. But when they discovered rock music as teenagers, they found their passion. While all three live in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan’s third-largest city, they formed the band at university in Taipei before releasing their debut EP, Balance, in 2013, and an album, Angle, a year later.
“We started with a math-rock sound,” says Tell. “It had a strong analogue and live feeling. On Balance and Angle, most of the sound came…
