Artist name: Yu Quan
Issuing company: Huayi Brothers
Issue date: July 5, 2005
[album introduction]
Thirty is an album that Yu Quan spent the longest time preparing, devoted the most effort and placed the highest expectations on. As early as one and a half months before the album was recorded, senior musicians such as Zhong Xingmin, Zhong Guotai and Huang Zhongyue were invited to revise their works and discuss the direction of music together. Thirty was co-produced by Zhong Xingmin and Yu Quan, and Yu Quan wrote all the songs in the album. The joining of Zhong Guotai, the most famous sound engineer in Taibei Platinum Studio, tapped Yu Quan's richer voice expression, and together with the most famous Japanese master processing engineer, monitored the recording quality of the album almost harshly-up to 96K recording professional level, and later restored it to 96K through special technology. Moreover, in that era when musical instruments and sound samples could be easily downloaded from the Internet, Yu Quan insisted on absolute originality. All the samples were designed and recorded by himself, even a big drum and a flute, which he carefully prepared before recording. If you are only content to download and listen to MP3 with limited sound quality, you will never feel the most complete and thorough impact brought by this record with fever-level sound quality.
In 1930s, many attempts were made to combine western musical instruments with China's classical folk music, and some extremely rare musical instruments in pop music were also combined in an unrestrained way. Music critic Yu He said after listening to the whole album, "Although Zhong Xingmin's arrangement is no longer new to us, it has also produced many chemical effects under the collision with Yu Quan's works, adding more colors to the music of the whole album and showing the form of band music, so that some works obviously have the first-class quality of current domestic pop rock." On the other hand, dust's use of Chinese musical instruments and lyric works such as "I get drunk easily on such a night" have never given up contact with popular fans. For those discussions and interpretations about the meaning of life, Yu Quan also showed enough sincerity and control ability. This, together with the smooth melodies that Yu Quan has always been good at, is enough to keep their fans flocking. "
"Go through the creator's Lonely Road again ..."
The order of the twelve songs in the record is not random. The arrangement and connection of each song is a way of appreciation carefully conveyed by Yu Quan, so that everyone can listen to the record step by step and understand the atmosphere created in it. Even the pause and length of the blank transition between songs have been carefully thought over and dealt with.
[Introduction of tracks]
The opening song of Xin Qiji retains the consistent strength and rhythm style of Yu Quan music, and the combination of western arrangement and Chinese folk music collides with "the rock of China national melody". When discussing the arrangement with Mr. Zhong Xingmin, the lyrics of this song were not finished. The first sample created the atmosphere and momentum of the ancient battlefield from the beginning, and Xin Qiji's lyrics directly emerged in Haiquan's mind. Xin Qiji was a poet with rich literary accomplishment and a patriotic general in the Southern Song Dynasty. His poems are full of military temperament and manly momentum, showing the backbone of China people and their courage to resist oppression. 80% of the words in Xin Qiji are extracted from four poems of Xin Qiji's predecessors, and then added to Haiquan's original arrangement. Violent but not restless music room, the frost, knife, rain and sword of 800 years ago are vaguely intertwined. For thousands of years, the unknown warrior who has never been afraid to retreat and the people of China who have never lost their backbone have been using their own strength to prove the remarkable improvement of the status of the whole nation. At the end, Haiquan wrote: "Looking back suddenly, there are many romantic feelings, neither an emperor nor a prince", expressing the idea that any history of rise and fall is created by ordinary people and affirming the value of any ordinary person in every society and era. As the opening, Xin Qiji set a broader and far-reaching tone for the whole album.
"Human" stands for the title of the whole record. Continue Xin Qiji's last sentence to further discuss the content. At first glance, the title of the song feels very artistic, but the perspective stays on the most ordinary people-telling the bitterness and helplessness that everyone will encounter in life, the emotional connection derived from the relationship between people, far or near, and even their respective responsibilities. On Earth is particularly important to this record, so it includes two versions, original and melody. The original non-mainstream arrangement has done enough experiments in arrangement, relying on the performance of musical instruments to create a sense of picture, which embodies the connotation and significance of the song itself and makes the melody atmosphere and lyrics reach the ultimate harmony. Melody edition can be regarded as an "easy reader" of The World. Fearing that the experimental arrangement of the original version may reduce the popularity of the song itself, this version has specially attached an arrangement that is more in line with the general hearing of the public, so that listeners can better understand and recognize the metaphor of the song: life is short as a flower, and everyone has his own long or short appreciation period. Even if you work hard, you should not tirelessly encourage yourself to work hard in do or die.
Compared with the first two songs, "Dust" is more about the experiment of music itself: using the playing method and arrangement method of western music to express Xiao, flute, guqin and other national musical instruments. Aesthetics has designed the interaction between the sound of the sea spring and the sound of Xiao, and the interaction between the sound of Xiao and the guitar with metallic texture, which vividly makes the instrument become the voice representative of the combination of rigidity and softness. The poetic lyrics of Dust are inspired by a poem presented by a friend. Haiquan imitated the chorus lyrics created in the form of "Chai Toufeng" and wrote the bitterness and joy in love and the impermanence fatalism in life. Love has nothing to do with reality, it just flies between your soul like a dream.
"Courtship Song" arranges "Courtship Song" in the fourth track of the album as a relaxing breath. More works that return to Yu Quan's early style, simple and clear guitars, straightforward and sincere lyrics. The state of the whole song is relaxed and simple, even the deliberate lyrics and arrangement are extremely simple. When you want to express your love, it is far more effective to try to sing the chorus of courtship than to express it orally, because a mysterious person once predicted that singing the chorus of this song out loud inadvertently would help the other party to copy the magnetic field information of courtship a lot. ...
Yu Quan, a "doll house", has never tried the editing method of stage play. When listening to the radio, he deliberately kept the most authentic improvisation in the recording. In a seemingly playful state, he teased countless love relationships between men and women, control and anti-control, and discussed a topic of love life between men and women: some women are used to talking about men when they are together; When some men are together, women will become the talk between them. Between the words expressing the current situation of love, both sides hope and think that they have completely controlled each other, mistakenly thinking that such possession and care are the happiness they want. While hiding from each other, they are self-righteous and lack of conjecture, temptation and reflection: is this emotional state the so-called happiness they have always wanted? Perhaps this discussion can't solve the problem, but it makes many friends around us start to think about their feelings.
Yu Quan's favorite lyrics in the album Hibernating City are closer to personal feelings. It was created at the end of last year when Haiquan went to Yufan to visit the crew. The bizarre neon lights on the streets of Guangzhou are full of helplessness, confusion and sadness. Everyone's expression when walking has nothing to do with passers-by passing around, just a tired and indifferent face. The hurry and helplessness of life have made people in many cities ignore and numb their inner feelings and become accustomed to turning a blind eye to people and things around them. At first, the atmosphere of music was gloomy, which rendered the helplessness in real life. The chorus gradually became clear, and paragraph B was repeated for the last time. Different melodies and lyrics were interwoven with the same rhythm, which raised the climax of music and highlighted the advantages of group singing. A passage of the song is an expression of reality. When it transits to paragraph B, it begins a beautiful imagination. C paragraph uses an illusory text to encourage and awaken everyone's concern and belief in themselves.
The second calm breath in the overall listening of Lonely Road is a relatively introverted and private work. Describing Yu Quan's mood in the process of creation is beyond everyone's understanding. Although they all showed a high preference for this song, but because the creative motivation is too self-centered, I hope that everyone will choose to listen quietly and feel the loneliness in the creative process. A Central Asian musical instrument called "Ajek" was used in the arrangement. Its timbre is somewhat similar to the violin in western music, but it is more humanized. Its playing skills and sound frequency sound like a girl crying her love story, which Yu Quan compared to "a crying angel". When a young musician randomly pulled out a melody with "Ai Jack", everyone in the meeting was paying attention. Zhong Xingmin personally loved it to a certain extent, even reluctant to give up a casual performance, and skillfully added it as an introduction. The left and right ends of the lonely highway are crowded with noisy traffic, and the creator's lonely pondering and thinking about the journey of life quickly shuttles in the middle.
Which Station has been regarded as the first recommended track. It can't summarize or represent the contents and changes of this record, but after a long period of investigation, from the initial stage of creation, the stage of determining the track, the recording time and even the finished product, "Which Station" is a very popular work. It is still the smooth melody that Yu Quan used to be good at, which brings pleasure and integrity in one go. Like a train running in the wilderness, it is rhythmic but desolate. The passengers in the carriage are all lonely faces, and their eyes are full of endless confusion. The arrangement in the form of a band highlights the strength of chorus, which is no longer an interlude of traditional solo transition. The harmony added at the end sets off the layering of the chorus paragraphs and avoids the monotony of repetition. Haiquan's ci compares the coming and going of every fate and opportunity in life to the relationship of getting on and off the bus, meeting occasionally and chasing each other, but no one can see the difference and direction later. There are always accidents in the interweaving of life and life, and the process is full of excitement and loneliness, but I have never forgotten the belief that someone will wait at the next stop.
A collector's edition single released by world without thieves at the end of 2004. After the re-arrangement, the rock band synchronized the recording live. Deliberately make the hearing look rough and restore the original true feelings of the song. In the noisy city of desire, everyone tries to find emotional comfort, so they cross men and women, and stories come and go, constantly looking for the end of their love path. Unfortunately, it is easy for us to meet selfish and playful people. Love others just to prove that others can love themselves. This song is about how to exchange sincerity in the face of love with people wandering around in urban life, as if the song said, "There is no sincerity in the world that can be stolen." In fact, every mature and happy relationship needs time to wait for its fruit. Unfortunately, we are always impatient. ...
Hasit is an old song two years ago, which has been pirated countless times. It was first included in the album and officially published. This piece of music was composed by Hai Quan when he was traveling in South Africa. It was from this song that they started a long-term close cooperation and fate with Zhong Xingmin. Before that, no pop song successfully integrated western music with China national musical instruments. It is precisely because of this song's attention and praise that Yu Quan began a more diversified and in-depth study and tried to combine Chinese and Western music.
"I get drunk easily on such a night" ends with a quiet song. After listening to it, I gradually changed my peace of mind. The most important music of this album has gone through dozens of summer nights in 2004. One night, Yu Fan played a melody that he had just written to Haiquan on the guitar, and Haiquan improvised it on the piano. The characteristics of the two reached a perfect complement and cooperation at one time. This song represents the crystallization of Yu Quan's works after several months of arrangement and revision. Yu Fan begins with a long oratorio, calmly and rationally telling the sadness of men and calmly and elegantly touching the most vulnerable side of men. The simple and natural arrangement restored the rough beauty of the song itself, and even deliberately reserved some off-center intonation in singing. On the evening of June/KOOC-0/65438+/KOOC-0/October/KOOC-0/8, 2004, Haiquan wrote his lyrics and gave them to Yu Fan who was filming in Guangzhou as a birthday present. Yu Fan's reply will come soon. He said: "I am very, very excited! Yu Quan is the best! " Sadness is the process of drunkenness. The ultimate of sadness and confusion is to get drunk without drinking, go home without being drunk, and finally face your unhappy past frankly. Yu Fan's quiet singing ended with a feeling of wanting more, an unfinished ending. ...