Author: He Muyang (this is what He Muyang said)
About ten years ago, I had an idea that if I could use the representative musical elements of the different regions of China to create a song, and then publish it in a collection, it would be a meaningful thing, and I tried to do it with the music of Shanbei, Inner Mongolia, and Yunnan at that time. And then through the ups and downs, only in the mind gradually conceptualized.
In Shenzhen in 2003, I recorded a song against SARS when I found this singer from Inner Mongolia, Linghua, and then recognize her partner is also my hometown of Zeng Yi, and then to their combination of "cool fire", until the official signing of the Peacock Gallery Records, named "Phoenix Legends". The Legend of Phoenix". There is something magical about them together, with Linghua's soaring and wild vocals, Zeng Yi's passionate and dynamic rapping, and their colorful stage performances, everything seems to be a kind of arrangement.
The time has come, and from their first song, "Above the Moon," they have groped for a way to express themselves with elements of original folk songs plus modern rhythms and humanistic lyrics. At this point, a musical silk road from Mongolia and the desert to Xinjiang to Qinghai to Tibet to Yunnan is becoming clear. Like a magical dream journey, I have never been to these places, but they are so impressive that it may be the melodies and rhythms that have flowed in the Chinese bloodstream for millennia. I believe it is the root.
There are always people in this day and age who insist on separating folk songs from pop songs, or those who play pop think folk songs are too earthy. I have always felt that folk songs nowadays are pop songs, and the so-called folk songs are just the past tense. However, Europe, America, Japan and Korea have their own musical tunes, and our pop songs should have more Chinese ethnicity and more humanistic lyrics. This "Above the Moon" is a kind of exploration, or maybe it heralds the beginning of a new style.
Special thanks to Tai, Yuan Chun, Fu Jiang, Fei Gang, Lv Weiqing, Zhong Xingmin, Fu Ke, Wang Guangwu, Chen Bohao, Tian Po, He Jian, Long Jun, etc., who helped make this dream come true, and it's so real, maybe all the legends come from the original reality.
This album also pays special tribute to musical predecessors with a sense of national responsibility, such as Wang Lobin, Lei Zhenbang, Luo Dayou and Huang Zhan.
I only heard this song the other day. Both ethnic and pop components are dissolved... Oh, we all have similar interests!