Their production team also includes producer-San Francisco Japanese Hip-Hop famous teacher Dan "Dan“TheAutomator”Nakamura (who has cooperated with PrimalScream, DepecheMode, DeLaSoul and other bands). MihoHatori, the Japanese female lead singer of new york's independent band CiboMato, DelTheFunkyHomosapien, the American western rapper, IbrahimFerrer, the Cuban jazz singer, and TinaFrantz, the main member of the post-punk pioneer band TalkingHeads.
The musical styles are mainly hip-hop, alternative pop/rock and alternative rap, and some of them are also a mixture of Jamaican reggae, Cuban traditional love songs and even British punk rock
Although several members are cartoon characters, But they all have their own personality characteristics:
Band members: ChakaKhan
Lead singer-2D birthplace-－Crawley age-23 years old (1977)
Long, decadent and charming lead singer 2D-2D, who is good at playing keyboards, is always the most silent one in the crowd. However, his unfathomable black hole eyes caused by blindness exude a strong and charming mysterious smell, attracting the attention of many female fans.
features-blind black eyes and hedgehog-like hair
hobbies-collecting pictures of Boba beauties.
Music influence-－ButorphanolTartrate painkiller, British electronic pop group Human League
lead singer PhilOakey, LucioFulci
band member: Noodle
guitarist-Noodle's birthplace-Osaka, Japan Age-1 years old (1991)
Noodle, a cute Asian guitarist-Noodle, a 1-year-old Japanese girl, always wears a pop helmet with a built-in radio. Although she is full of mysterious oriental flavor, she can only speak English "Noodle". What's even more amazing is that she has excellent China's fist and fist skills.
Features-A pair of eyes that can never be opened
Hobbies-Collecting flying policewomen, electronic chickens, pocket monsters and yo-yo toys
Music influences-Japanese gossip, Lao Zi and BonJovi guitarist RichieSambora
Band members: Murdoc
Head/Bassist-Devil's birthplace-Trent, England. Age-34 years old (June, June, 1966)
Murdoc－, an intelligent and optimistic cool bass player, is actually the most thoughtful and sensitive head of Gorillaz.
He has developed excellent bass playing skills and song writing skills through self-study, which makes him the helmsman who dominates the whole group.
As a spokesman for Gorillaz, fans can also feel his arrogant dominance.
characteristics-green teeth like poisonous snakes and a pair of red eyes of yin and yang
hobbies-holding flat A D
music influence-－BlackSabbath, Dub music, beach boys drummer DennisWilson and the most admired idol-Satan
Band members: Russel
drummer-Luo Pang's birthplace-New York, USA, age-25 (1975
Russell－, a Hip-Hop black lout drummer, is a good drummer, and advocates black culture such as hip-hop and Rap.
However, he has received a good knowledge and behavior education from an aristocratic school, and his polite manner and gentle manners have also made many female friends feel the real security of flashy life from his steady personality.
characteristics-eyes turned white due to excessive fright
hobbies-fitness and eating (currently the owner of calori Multifunctional Aerobic Fitness Center on the outskirts of London)
Music influence-black racist priests LouisFarrakhan and R&; B soul diva
Since she has such distinct personality characteristics and hobbies, there is naturally a very crisp team-building process:
Everything in p>Gorillaz started with one person, that is, Murdoc, a bad boy. And their composition comes from the "fatal" encounter between lead singer 2D and leader Murdoc.
2D, formerly known as Stuber, has a special hobby for keyboard instruments and works in Uncle Nome's musical instrument chain store every weekend.
Murdoc and his companions, in order to realize their musical dreams, and his BB gang planned to make music by using the stolen synthetic instruments, so they and his dog party took risks in order to grab a synthesiser and drove into Uncle Nome's shop for robbery.
However, I didn't expect to bump into Stuber standing at the door. As a result, Stuber hit his left eye and his memory deteriorated due to concussion.
Murdoc, who caused the accident, was finally sentenced by the court to serve 3, hours of labor service and take care of Stuber until he recovered.
One day, when Murdoc returned to the hospital with Stuber with a confused head for re-examination, he played a 36-degree invincible turn on a whim. At that time, Stuber broke through the windshield and went straight into the safety island like a javelin thrown violently. This time, Stuber was blind in his right eye, but he was lucky enough to regain consciousness. From then on, he regarded Murdoc as a rescuer and renamed it 2D (Second Damage).
Murdoc's terrible driving skills have turned the lives of these two enemies into a 18-degree turn.-Murdoc realized that 2D used to play synthesiser, and the music he played had the potential to be popular, so he made a very appropriate decision and made 2D Luo Zhi a member of his band.
as long as we find the drummer and guitarist again, everything will be settled.
Then comes the next name on the band list-drummer Russel. This hip hop friend from new york, USA, works in a Soho record store in London, England. One day, Murdoc met him in the "Gollum Record Store" which specializes in Hip-Hop in SOHO, and they had a good talk.
When Murdoc learned that Russell was a B-Boy drummer who was good at funk rhythm, he actively invited him to join the league, and Russell immediately promised to join in order to realize his dream. Russel said that there was an incredible power in his heart, which made him create funky rhythm.
In order to find a way to tie his hand, they were in NME, a British magazine? I advertised for his hand, but I didn't expect that they got a package from Japan, and a 1-year-old Japanese doll Noodle jumped out! Noodle talked incessantly as soon as he came out, and his hands were still clicking the strings back and forth on the guitar handle. The stupefied three people nodded to let the mysterious figure join under Noodle's unreasonable opening remarks.
Gorillaz, composed of Murdoc, 2D, Russell and Noodle, was formally established. They made their first public performance in Camden at the end of 1998. The fierce and rough punk rock immediately attracted the attention of EMI record companies and signed a record contract with them. From their debut album of the same name released in April, 21, you can even hear new york Black Hip Hop, Jamaican Reggae Dub, Cuban traditional love songs or British punk rock. At the beginning, Murdoc's desperate goal of realizing his musical dream was finally realized, and they will also create a new era of music by interlacing virtual and realistic notes.
Gorillaz's first album of the same name has a variety of songs, so he found the Cuban Buena Vista Social
Club' Elder' Ibrahim Ferrer to sing the old Spanish song 〈Latin Simone〉. At one time, Miho
Hatori from Cibo Matto and Tina Weymouth Tom Tom Club sang "19-2". As for 〈Clint Eastwood〉, the first album, it regained the glory of Blur's most glorious period, and "5/4" realized Damon Albarn's wish of always being Lo-Fi. By 〈Tomorrow Comes Today〉, it has become a Post-Punk like The Cure, and "Punk" has gone to the end of 3-Chord Punk, which is completely 77 years old. At the end of the < 〈M1A1〉 >, the foreword actually takes us back to days of our lives of the German duo D.A.F in the 198s, and the allegro of 〈Clint Eastwood〉 is added as the Hidden Track
, and the lead singer 2D is the simple "tomorrow comes today" in Damon Barn
MV with a big and lazy Blur. The video of the real scene is a two-dimensional cartoon in the form of semi-animation (only some parts and organs are dynamic)
, but even the semi-animation inherits the style that European and American cartoons always act meticulously and can even match their mouths.
clint eastwood, on the other hand, uses the name of a director, but the music has nothing to do with it. The two-dimensional animation and the three-dimensional background are about the monsters and gorillas imagined by the drummer coming out to wipe out the damage. NOODLE's little sister is still showing off her legs and feet.
Personally, in this digital age of music, painting and animation, it is very natural for a virtual band to appear in this form.
The band not only adds new ways to the music style, but also has diverse elements, and even the shape is so strange and has personality, and even the story is so imaginative and unimaginable. It is very virtual. However, the creators are endowed with extremely flesh-and-blood personality characteristics.
Their appearance not only attracts anime fans, but also becomes the object of their painting imitation. Even some younger bands are eager to try this form of using cartoons as endorsements, and put cartoon shapes representing their own band images on some music forums, which shows that they have a certain milestone role in both the music field and the animation field. What about the development after the fight? In this era when music and animation can communicate and cooperate with each other through the Internet, it remains to be seen whether this form is a flash in the pan or a common phenomenon.