Desert Camel Song Original Vocal Full Version is a song written, composed and performed by Zhanzhan & Luo Luo (Shi Zhan, Luo Zhongkai).
Released online on June 19, 2017, it was later included in Zhanzhan & Luo Luo's EP My Stage released on December 19, 2018.On November 29, 2018, Zhanzhan & Luo Luo won the Best Original Duo Award at the 2018 Asian Music Awards for the song.
Composition background:
"Desert Camel" was written by Zhanzhan and Luo Luo. Shi Zhan formed his first band at the age of 15, started writing songs and met his mentor Xu Tiansheng. Xu Tiansheng gave him a "proposition" to write a melody in a harmonic minor key, which was part of the intro to "Camel in the Desert". After finishing the main song and the C section of the song, Zhan Zhan met Luo Luo, and the two of them began to work together.
Zhanzhan and Luo Luo set an inspirational tone when they wrote the song's lyrics, which took four months of constant overturning and rewriting to complete. When they recorded the song, all they had was an old computer, a $1,000 sound card and a $200 microphone, and because the duo was unfamiliar with recording software, they didn't even fix the pitch later.
Song Appreciation:
The whole song "Desert Camel" has an upbeat melody, but the lyrics contain deep meaning, with a little bit of exotic flavor, full of dashing and free flavor, full of cultural connotations and the depth of life philosophy. The song has its own unique characteristics, the style of retro, melodic high, the use of many musical elements, harmony is very unique, both a bit like the Divine Comedy, but also more than the big vulgar song has a connotation.
The grandiose feeling of the song makes the listener under the pressure of real life feel free, bringing the listener to that yellow sand, that starry river, singing about the struggle of love, the anxiety of life and the confusion of life.