Chinese Name: Hou Chuan
English Name: HOHO
Birthplace: Guangxi
Date of Birth: December 14th
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius
Height: 173cm
Weight: 60kg
Shoe Size: 43
Blood Type: O
Family Status: Parents
Education: University
Hobbies: Watching commercials, soccer
Hobbies: Traveling, Adventure, Movies
Favorite Foods: Szechuan hot pot, deep fried food
Favorite Places: Yangshuo, Lijiang
Favorite Music: TEEN POP, rap, blues
Favorite Singer: Avril Lavigne, Craig David
Favorite Band: Short Circuit
Favorite Movie: Big Fish, Guess the Train
Favorite Actor: Stephen Chow, Nicolas Cage
Favorite Colors: Doesn't matter.
Favorite People: Mozart, Deng Xiaoping, Louis XIV
Favorite Places to Travel: Earth and its friends
Favorite Type of Opposite Sex: Simple and Kind, Cartoon
Hou Qin is the newest "all-creation" musician in Mainland China. He is the strongest "R&B" new force in the Chinese music industry after Jay Chou and David Tao, and his songs such as "Bridge Section" and "West Wing" are this year's Internet and radio hits, and have won multiple weekly championships in several song charts. The new R&B song has become the hottest and most popular R&B song in 2005, with album sales of more than 50,000, and once ranked third on the Asia-Pacific Music Chart's national album sales charts, putting Sun Nan and Yuquan ahead of the pack.
The backstring is a Guangxi Liuzhou people, but also in 2000 began in Guangxi economic radio began to hit the charts, and from Guangxi went out of the musicians, has signed a professional music record company in Guangzhou and Beijing. And then put the song on the network, become popular network talent type singer, this after string specially the first station promotional location in Guangxi, the next will go to Xinjiang, Henan and other places to perform he confessed that he hoped to have the time to come back to Guangxi and to the various places to publicize. In addition, on the evening of November 12, the back of the string to Guangxi Economic Radio program and attended the first MTV song singer competition in Guangxi, the scene sang his own Palace R& B song "truant schoolboy" "nine out of ten", by the fans of the warm welcome.
Album tracks:
01 West Wing
02 Bridges
03 White
04 Truant Scholar
05 Only Love Martians
06 East Love
07 Goldbach Guess
08 To Anna
09 Kickoff
10 Nine out of ten
How do you introduce a brand new voice like that? It really gives me a headache, he has the potential of an idol and the strength of an all-round songwriter. Of course, it's the humming and singing, the old-fashioned style that appeals to everyone the most, and it does have a tone similar to that of Dong Zhou. Backstring has a very self-contained music concept and creative ability, his debut album "Ancient - Play" is defined as a fully creative album, the reason why it is called fully creative is because all the songs on the album, from the lyrics, music to the post-production of the arrangement, production, all by backstring one person to do. The album was created through the skillful integration with Taiwan's senior recording engineers.
◆"Ancient": Ancient colors and flavors
Implies that the whole album style is inherited from the classical palace style music vein, from the lyrics, the song will let everyone feel a strong flavor of blue and white ceramics.
◆"PLAY": Playing with Pop
That is to say, the previous classical Gong-tone music, nowadays the most popular R&B, Hip-Hop, Rap, Pop, Electronic and so on music methods "play" up! PLAY--The concept of playing R&B music freely runs through every note of "Ancient Play".
⊙When Backstring meets Jay Chou ......
At first glance, Backstring's music is really a bit like Jay Chou's style, but when you savor it, you'll find that there's still a lot of difference between the two. Chou Chou drove a new trend in pop music, and he also blended the R&B, Hip-Hop, and Rap Zhou Dong drove a new wave of pop music, and also fused R&B, Hip-Hop, and Rap music styles, which is crucial to Chinese pop music. Backstring's music is more traditional, more classical flavor, very authentic Chinese style, in the style of Western music and ethnic music combined with each other, gradually create a unique string music belongs to him. In his own words, "Music is like a species, my music originated from JAY, but it is only the beginning of the evolution of ...... me, with an era, not a person." Good to learn, good to learn from, but also a source of inspiration on the back string music creation.
⊙『Ancient - Play』The first part of string music
『Ancient - Play』popped up from the head to the outside of the head, such as the descent of ten mischievous children, it took a whole hundred days. In a hundred days, the PLAY music spirit of East meets West is gradually brewing and growing up in the sculpting of time and in the cheering of fans; lyrics, arrangements, production, supervision ......, each link is like a private dish in the secret making; the recording studio is the kitchen of the backstring; hopefully, what will be served at the end will be a delicious feast for the ears to enjoy. I hope the final dish will be a delicious meal for the ears to enjoy. I hope that every day's hard work of Houstring will become the Full Mark of music.
The name of the album, "Ancient - Play", has a special meaning and represents the formation of Houstring's music style. It also conveys a lot of new concepts belonging to the string style music, let's get to know it first from the introduction of the backstring himself.
Why the name 'Ancient Play'?
Houjian says, "I hope my music is like a delicate antique sculpted by time, because only an artwork like an antique can transcend pop! It becomes something that becomes more flavorful the more you taste it and more popular the more you appreciate it." The latter will use the time he has accumulated to carve out pop music that everyone will love to collect.
★What is the concept of "R&B"?
The backstring says: "The Gongtong style of singing belongs to the bones of our own culture, i.e., a kind of meter in the ancient rhythms, which has a lot of similarities with the major keys commonly used in the R&B style of music. In addition, the pulling and turning of the ancient palatial babble is amazingly similar to the turning technique in Western R&B. So the two can blend very smoothly. This is why the two blend so smoothly. The addition of the Gong style makes the tune more "Qing Hua" flavored, more local oriental colors, without losing the charm of pop. Combining the Gong style with the R&B pop elements will allow the nationalities to transcend the traditional, and the pop to return to the nationalities, interpreting their own unique style of things.
★How to understand the term "post-modern"?
Backstring said: postmodern is a feeling, everyone has their own understanding, for me, with the palace tone to do pop, with the classical refracted modern, borrowing from the past is a metaphor for the present, is one of the understanding of the postmodern string sound.
★What are the characteristics of this album in terms of interpretation?
The backstring said: the whole album tunes in the singing, according to the classification of the song, basically joined the palace style of singing, this that is traditional, but also with some R & amp; B transposition techniques of singing, is the two Chinese and Western styles can be in the song in the perfect fusion of up the biggest reason. It's also its own best feature.
★How is the musical structure of this album arranged?
Backstring said: "This album has a variety of styles, ancient, modern, renaissance, fantasy, realism, many attempts, the style of the Palace R&B is also the main, but also with the Hip-Hop, rap, Pop, electronic and other musical techniques, I hope to bring you a rich level of musical experience.
Interpretation of the Legend of the Strings A combination of Chinese classical literature and pop music
The West Wing
The West Wing
quotes from the famous novel The Story of the West Wing, and describes in its own way a youthful love affair with a bit of poetic sentimentality, with a Gong tune and a babbling R&B style chanting, which brings the narrative of the ancient novel to life in an elegant way, from the babbling of the Yellow Plum Tune to the singing of eastern and western instruments. Chanting, to the East and West instruments of the water milk blend, the song conveys a post-modern romantic feeling, through the door interspersed with the Huangmei singing, rich southern water town accent, the ancient mood to enhance again, twelve years ago, the scholar in the West Chamber of the first encounter with the young lady's love sinus, twelve years later, the gold list back to the empty building, a classic ancient love, refracted modern meanings of the lines of feeling, this kind of borrowing from the ancient metaphor for the present feeling, may be the back of the string, the back of the string, the back of the song. This kind of feeling is probably the post-modern music style of Hou Chuan, with its easy-to-accept palatial pop melody, and easy-to-make-people-intoxicated mood. It makes "The West Wing" a representative work of Backstring's palatial R&B music.
『Bridge section』
Bridge section, originally meant to be a plot segment in a movie, "Bridge Section" uses the structure of flashbacks, the beginning of the old record feels like the ancient song "Moonlit Night of Spring River" transformed into a naughty rap, childhood walls, classroom, and first love slowly emerge, followed by the R&B pop music rhythm, the rosy childhood moments one by one baked up: The romantic encounters of grandparents, the old movie played by dad, mom's kind nagging, and a pipa rendition of "The Moon Represents My Heart" variations in the middle of the song, rewinding everyone's heart back to the simple past of more than ten years ago. The "Bridge", which evokes a bridge buried in everyone's childhood heart for many years.
『Small White』
Small White, originally the cute little white dog in "Crayon Shin-chan", later became everyone's favorite nickname. The "la-la" sound that opens the door brings out the pure and unadulterated mood of "Little White". The simple major key, the simple rhythm, together with the simple lyrics of Little White's tone of voice, make you almost less than half a minute, you can follow the comfortable rhythm and catchy, "Little White" puts the "Little White" in the simple love of "Little White" unique. Xiao Bai" puts the pure state of mind unique to "Xiao Bai" in a childlike tone, and the image of Xiao Bai is exactly the girl who fell in love for the first time in everyone's mind. Arrangement, with today's popular rhythms, rap, guitar wah-chi, the complex arrangement into a simple feeling, sounds simple, in fact, not simple.
『Truant Schoolboy』
The song with the theme of truancy is the first of its kind in the music industry. At the beginning of the song, a recitation of a Tang poem in a private school is heard, and the sound of a schoolboy who can't help but tap on the rhythm is heard, and then there is the sound of Mr. Teacher's stern reprimand, and the tap on the rhythm is heard again, and then there is a solo of the instrument "sheng", which brings in the naughty hip-hop music. The song brings in a naughty hip-hop rhythm, rapping lightly and casually, classical mixed with rebellious, showing the true thoughts of the new mankind to the fullest. In the voice of a truant schoolboy, the song is a naughty "modification" of the Tang and Song poems in the book. The "truant schoolboy" in the lyrics is in fact a schoolboy who refuses to be bound by the feudal teaching system, but holds the pursuit of self-music in his heart. The word "schoolboy" in ancient times refers to the person who specializes in helping people to memorize books and read for others, and the word "schoolboy" breaks through the awkward burden of "reading for others" for today's over-burdened students who have to study in the examination-based education system. The word "scholar" punctuates the embarrassing burden of "reading for others" for today's overburdened students under the exam-oriented education system. It is a courageous song to criticize the mistakes of modern education with the ancient background. In addition, the whole song has a strong palatial color in the singing and arrangement. A sudden kick of Scottish fiddle and clapping adds a special touch of alternative childishness to the music.
『Only Love Martians』
The popular term "Martian" was spread from the Internet, and also became a classic narrator in Stephen Chow's "Shaolin Soccer", which refers to a guy who doesn't know anything, and in "Only Love Martians", a young man who has fallen out of love prefers to look for a simple-minded Martian rather than face the complexity of love on Earth. In "Only Love Martians", a young man who has fallen out of love prefers to go to a simple-minded Martian rather than face the complicated love entanglements on Earth, which is a "new love song" with a youthful and romantic fantasy. The Scottish and electronic light rock melody, combined with the unadorned and spontaneous singing style, expresses the helplessness and hopelessness of young people after falling out of love. In the arrangement, the smooth concerto of violin and Jinghu brings a special effect of freshness and vulgarity. The gently rhythmic rap highlights the troubled psychological state of the teenager, easily arousing ****songs from everyone, and the combination of classical tradition and alien sci-fi is evocative.
Tokyo Love Story
Tokyo Love Story is also known as "Tou Ai" for short, and when you listen to it carefully, you realize that this Tou Ai is not Tou Ai, but Tou Ai describes an "oriental love story", depicting a couple in ancient times, who secretly use poems and riddles to tell a love story. It describes an ancient couple's secret love affair in verse and riddles, and finally, bound by feudal rites, the young lady marries someone else, and the two of them are separated by a broken heart in a romantic and poignant episode. The opening of the song is flavored with rich high and low harmonies, and the entire lyrics are in the format of Tang poems, which is like reading verses and intoxicating people with a crispy and tender voice.
『Goldbach guess』
Famous mathematical conjecture and pop songs have a correlation, in this song, the two are given a wonderful connection between the two, the two people a plus one feelings of complexity and confusion, even if the master guessed a lifetime of no results, "Goldbach guess" did a classical R&B bold attempt. The song begins with an eighteenth-century Western classical piano piece, then adds a heavy R&B rhythm to the climax and even added Swing style, making a new attempt to pass the door and the end of the jump out of the piano guitar concerto, with an opera-accented chant, so that the whole song is full of the East and West boldly collision of sparks.
'For Anna'
A lilting Russian organ, reminiscent of "A Night Outside Moscow," is followed by a Chinese flute, weaving a poignant, exotic romance. In the lyrics, the two people are on different sides of the world, and can only express their longing by letter, on one side is the capital city, on the other side is Moscow, different cultural backgrounds, the same cutting thoughts, the whole music dressed in the insertion of the sound of the organ and the flute, constituting either ancient or foreign love songs is the biggest highlight of "For Anna".
『Kick Off』
From the mysterious opening to the jumping HIP-HOP rhythm of the outbreak, plus the middle of the interspersed Peking Opera drums and babbling singing, "Kick Off" with a strong dramatic plot, the birth of a calf is not afraid of tigers of the spirit of decisiveness and national temperament passed on to the out of the album is the more colorful auditory effect of the song, the national essence of Peking Opera interpretation of the half-RAP half-singing of the flower girl! Cavity harmonies, true and false sound combination of the climax of the part, from the beginning of the drawing of knives, kicking the door to break in, to the door of the door knocking, out of the move, the entire musical drama rendered tension, in general, the song into a strong post-modern music, so people can not help but marvel. The imaginative lyrics of the song convey a sense of "the fear of the future". What's more, this year marks the 60th anniversary of the victory in the Anti-Japanese War. It's easy to see who Backstring is kicking in the pants.
'Nine times out of ten'
When in love and when breaking up, lovers' sixth sense of intuition is nine times out of ten accurate and strong. This is a love song about the gray mentality when breaking up and parting, from the description of the scene of the breakup, to the climax with the contrast between the original encounter and separation for the contrast, with some lazy singing, guitar and piano R& B style melody, the memories of the lost love and the pain between the two to cover up the performance of the best, from the beginning to the climax, "good grief " is the biggest standout