This is from the introduction of the album "Teenagers". The delicate and warm wording is in great contrast with his appearance: a big dirty braid mopping the floor, a full face of whiskers and Jamaican costumes. He is the representative of China reggae/dub music, Jiang Liang, and has his own live performance system: Jiang Liang's voice system.
I first met Jiang Liang because of a poem named "Teenager", a mellow landscape DUB full of inherent vitality. The music played by the electronic synthesizer in his hand is no longer cold and full of mechanical notes. What is displayed in front of me is a picturesque landscape. A teenager stands barefoot in the picture, and the notes are like the flow of consciousness, gently showing the secret worries that only belong to teenagers.
Jiang Liang, a native of Guilin, Guangxi, lives in Yamang Village, Guilin. Probably only by living in such a beautiful place can you write this unique landscape DUB.
I had a chat with Jiang Liang specially, and I thought he would tell me at length about his experience of making music for more than ten years, or what he learned in a few hundred words. However, it didn't. He said: My life is really as dull as water.
"insipid" is a word that has little to do with musicians, but Jiang Liang said that he would choose to live a good life before playing music seriously. In fact, listening to Jiang Liang's music carefully, there is no ups and downs, no passion, but calm has real power.
Just like a song "Two Beaches in Yangshuo", the water, rain, wind and birdsong sampled by the original sound, which are the most common natural sounds in life, are integrated into the music by him. In this song, Yangshuo in Guilin is like a slowly unrolled scroll, slowly coming to us.
Jiang Liang said that he has a bad memory, can't tell stories, and doesn't care about the details of the process. His family has always supported him to make music, which is his happiest thing.
Speaking of the reason why I like Jiang Liang, maybe it's because I grew up in Hangzhou, and I have a familiar feeling for the landscape in his music. Maybe it's because I appreciate Jiang Liang's attitude towards life too much. Maybe there is no possibility at all ... I should forget so many details of the process, and happiness is enough.
If you search for Jiang Liang's memorabilia on the Internet, there are only a few simple words: "As an independent musician (Jiang Liang's sound system), I have maintained long-term cooperation with musicians from all over the world and released records and music overseas many times."
After careful consideration, it is not difficult to find that artists from all over the world can be invited to Yamang Village in Guilin to participate in Jiang Liang's music creation. Jiang Liang's own music must be attractive and excellent enough.
The same is true. As a senior musician, Jiang Liang's music has such a profound internal tradition, but it is light and simple in form. His music is psychedelic, but natural, natural and unadorned.
Jiang Liang, who looks rough and rebellious, is a delicate and simple person at heart. Although this contrast is surprising, I have to admit that his music is very similar to his personality.
"A poem" Leaving "is euphemistic and moving, and the young people who want to say goodbye will eventually draw a pause when the song ends. But some of the infinite youth's worries can continue in music. Time goes by, only he is in the music ... "
And Jiang Liang is the teenager, and all the landscapes have turned into clever notes and entered his music, so his musical talent can be spread freely.
I thought this interview was a failure, with no wonderful material and no touching story, but maybe this is what makes him different, a plain and true Jiang Liang. Maybe everyone has different feelings about sweetness, and Jiang Liang can feel it better than us.
This time, his upcoming new song, "Ethiopia", is the first collaboration with Hong Kong singers. As he himself said, the new form of Cantonese plus dub will give the audience a sense of crossing the times, but it sounds to me that it is more human than the previous landscape flavor. Whether it is landscape or human feelings, Jiang Liang always tells his life in his way, and I am willing to listen.
Wen /Mika