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A travel album worth listening to

Use music to express the true feelings of what you see and think about during the journey

A trip to the water town to complete a cross-border music album with a gorgeous style

An impossible adventure, discovering the perfect blend of lounge, piano, symphony and Suzhou Pingtan

Fan Zongpei's richly emotional arrangement narrates the scenes and moods during the journey.

Lin Hai’s ethereal piano monologue is just like singing in the sky.

Peng Jing’s profound classical roots melted into Dusk You Sing, who helped write music scores.

Use music to record the people, emotions and scenery of the water town. Fan Zongpei, Lin Hai, and Peng Jing’s trip to the south of the Yangtze River created the water town in their minds

Recording travel with words and images has made travel literature a trend, such as "My Heart Is Left in the Aegean Sea", which is interesting The unique experiences and beautiful scenery always make readers excited and want to step out of their own world to see the vast world. It is not only the pictures that attract readers' attention, but also the text that makes people have wild imagination. In the world of music, music has also begun to move outdoors in recent years. Musicians use travel to inspire more inspiration, and incorporate unique music materials from various places to present their creations to music fans in different styles.

Music genius Fan Zongpei’s 2004 cross-border masterpiece "Water Color" was born from the travel experience of Jiangnan Tour. In the summer of 2002, Yang Jincong, a popular music guru, brought producers Fan Zongpei, composers Lin Hai and Peng Jing to Zhouzhuang, a famous tourist resort in the south of the Yangtze River. In order to find music inspiration, several big boys sweated under the scorching sun and interacted with tourists. Rub shoulders and admire the beauty of this famous water town.

During this journey, the musicians saw the water town in their hearts. Lin Hai’s water town was filled with flowing water and weeping willows. Peng Jing wrote about the water town under the sunset, and the soul figure Fan Zongpei wrote about the water town. People and affection. In particular, the appearance of a snuff bottle girl inspired Fan Zongpei, a producer, to create several moving songs related to love, people and land, and people and time, giving the entire album a heart-pounding style. Affectionate.

This is the first time to try a cross-border music technique, using Suzhou Pingtan, which originated more than 300 years ago, and blending it into Western compositions in an amazing way, making time and space misplaced and the mood drifting. The fantasy sound

In addition to creating music based on his own feelings, the popular rap music "Suzhou Pingtan" in the Jiangnan water town has also become a very important musical element in the album.

"Suzhou Pingtan" is the general term for "Pinghua" and "Tanci" in Suzhou. It is derived and popular in Suzhou, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai. There are various styles of singing styles that have lasted for more than 300 years, and are closely related to "Suzhou Kunqu Opera" is also listed as a World Cultural Heritage.

Musicians discovered that the Suzhou Pingtan, which originated more than 300 years ago, had unexpectedly harmonious rhythms with many Western music chords. So the musicians broke the tradition of Pingtan. cognition, playing the music happily like a treasure, using four grammars and Pingtan dialogue: lounge and Pingtan (the first song "Adventure"), piano and Pingtan (the second song "Water Color"), nature in the environment Sound and Pingtan (the fourth song "The Ferryman's Song"), symphony and Pingtan (the seventh song "The Street of Qingshi Xiangwan")

Producer Fan Zongpei tried a new musical technique for the first time, allowing the four This piece of music "played" with Suzhou Pingtan. He combined Chinese and Western instruments, tonality, and chords in different forms, giving the music a strange and magnificent feeling. The fusion of lounge and Pingtan is a brand new attempt. He uses minimalist musical form to combine these two music styles that are more than 300 years apart and are very different in musical form and spiritual meaning. It is quite surprising. work.

Composer Peng Jing, who studied in Germany and has a solid background in classical music, integrated symphonic music styles into Pingtan music, with larger arrangements and more complex chords. Pianist Lin Hai and Pingtan's "playing style" is the more "gentle" among the three. His consistent aura is relatively fully revealed in the watery notes. The integration of Suzhou Pingtan and modern composition is an iconic breakthrough in the cross-border music industry, and it also brings a new listening enjoyment.

In addition to the integration of Suzhou Pingtan and modern music vocabulary, the album also uses Chinese and Western instruments such as cello, violin, erhu, and pipa to express what is depicted in the music through counterpoint, improvisation and other musical forms. The water town atmosphere.

Music Genius - Fan Zongpei plays with notes and creatively, and wanders freely among classical music, new age music, world music, jazz and pop music

Fan Zongpei is known as the "Music Genius". He likes everyone to call him "Fat Man". It is hard to imagine from his appearance that his music is so deep and beautiful. With astonishing arranging skills, from classical music, new age music, world music, jazz to pop music, he can always move around and play with notes to create creativity.

Talking about my music learning process, it started with the painstaking efforts of my parents. He said: "Very few children learn an instrument because it is what they want to learn from the beginning." After one year of violin lessons at the age of four, he found that he was not suitable, so he switched to cello. When I was studying in an art college, I started to help singers record string music, and accumulated my own writing and arrangement skills. After graduation, he served as the principal cellist of the National Concert Hall Symphony Orchestra for nine years. In addition to working as a chef, he now specializes in production, composition, arrangement, soundtrack and other performances.

Writing the soundtrack for the movie "I Love Mary" starring Li Liqun more than ten years ago was the first time in Fan Zongpei's scoring career, and it also started Fan Zongpei's relationship with soundtracks. In 1999, he began to serve as the soundtrack for the public TV exquisite literary dramas "Once", "A Boat in the Ocean", and "The General's Monument". In 2000, he adapted Li Shutong's works in "Sunset Mountain", and in 2001, he worked on "Live Like a Human". "Like This", 2002 "Cold Night", "The Sound of That Summer", the 2003 high-profile drama "Evil Son", etc. The touching soundtracks in the dramas are all composed by him. In 2004, he once again served as the director of "The Scarlet Wind". "Sakura" TV series soundtrack. .

Fan Zongpei starts from classical music and spans the pop and non-pop music circles. He has rich creations and rich musical styles. His published personal works include "Unexpected Tenderness", "The Voice of Desire" and other cello albums, as well as several A conceptual cross-border album, and has produced soundtracks for many popular movies and TV shows, and is widely recognized for his profound compositional capabilities.