Nandu News Reporter Ding Huifeng Wutiao people's first 10,000-person tour, named "Great Times Club", on December 25, the first stop will be grandly opened in their home stadium Guangzhou. Gojo people will turn the Guangzhou Gymnasium into a "big time song hall" with twists and turns.
"Cabaret" lineup
The strange power of the ten-man basic lineup
Guangdong Haifeng folk song Daoshan Liangzai, Pearl River Delta Blues Maniac, Canton Pop Golden Song New Wave, Chinese Psychedelic Local Specialty Rock - Wu Tiao Ren, this band that travels between rock scenes, art scenes and variety shows, is not so much a cross-border as it breaks the boundaries between art and life, not so much as they break the circle, but rather break the division of language, region, class and era. The song of the Five People is the sadness and joy of a generation of Chinese youth from the countryside to the county seat to the international metropolis, and it is the epic of the fate of ordinary people in the era of globalization. Everything about Gojo is both rock and roll and very Chinese.
On August 18, 2021, Gojoren released two albums at the same time on the same day - "Live Fish Swims Against the Current, Dead Fish Follow the Waves" and "Half of the Truth Revealed, Half by Performance", showing strong creative power.
This year, Gojo has released two albums.
This time, Gojo ren will select more than 20 representative works with rich and diverse style themes in his hundreds of works, and rearrange them, so as to submit a "big era song list" that has been passed down by word of mouth, which has many popular golden songs of the times and many new works, with a huge style span.
Wutiao people have formed a basic lineup of ten people for the Big Times Song Hall: lead singer/accordion/guitar Renke, lead singer/guitar Maotao, as well as drummers Miao Changjiang, Bass Chen Chuangyuan, wind music Zhang Meng, as well as keyboard Li Yanke, guitarist Wu Suibin, chorus He Qinrou, Qi Yunyan, and famous avant-garde guitarist Li Jianhong will also join the Wujo people for the first time. Photo: Song Xiaohui
Wutiao people have formed a basic lineup of ten people for the Big Times Song Hall: lead singer/accordion/guitar Renke, lead singer/guitar Maotao, as well as drummers Miao Changjiang, Bass Chen Chuangyuan, wind music Zhang Meng, as well as keyboard Li Yanke, guitarist Wu Suibin, chorus He Qinrou, Qi Yunyan, and famous avant-garde guitarist Li Jianhong will also join the Wujo people for the first time. In addition, Zhang Meng will also lead a large copper pipe group. Gojo people are born for the scene, they can always burst out of the scene amazing energy, for the thousands of hammers, experienced thousands of live performances of the Five Jo people, the large stadium concert is a new experience, this is a long-planned strange power chaos.
Dream linkage
"One Shot" with Artist Cao Fei
The famous artist Cao Fei will serve as the artistic director of the concert, Andra and Cao Fei, a dream combination from the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong, an incredible and logical dream linkage. In 2015, Together with Zhang Weiwei & Guo Long, Gojo held concerts at the Guangzhou Friendship Theatre and the Shenzhen Poly Theatre. In 2021, Gojo visited Cao Fei's large-scale solo exhibition "Time Stage" at the UCCA Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, and the two sides hit it off at first sight, and shortly thereafter, Gojo issued an invitation to Cao Fei to be the art director of the concert.
Famous artist Cao Fei. Photo by Jin Jiaji
Gojo and Cao Fei, their works have many amazing similarities in themes and themes: they are good at incorporating their feelings about China's urbanization and change into their works, and also focus on the contradictions and flows between urban and rural areas, the rapid development and differentiation of society, from utopia to heterotopia, from reality to fiction, absurdity and sorrow, poetry and games... They are all good at transforming personal memories and complex emotions from the transition period into an inextricable artistic language.
Specially planned
The "Nigao Performance" is accompanied by five people dancing
The general planner of the "Big Time Song Hall" is Zhang Xiaozhou, while the "Two High Performances" led by He Qiwo (Ergao) – an alternative performance group spanning modern dance and disco, connecting English song and dance and square dance – will also "accompany the dance" at the Big Times Song Hall. Like Renke, Mao Tao, and Cao Fei, they are Cantonese, and they now live or have lived in Guangzhou for a long time, and they have all benefited from the cultural climate of Guangdong in the era of reform and opening up, and regard it as their spiritual starting point and creative material.
"Two High Performances". Photo by Wangs
The "Big Time Song Hall" of Gojo people is a mutual greeting between different eras, and it is also a marriage of rock music and pop culture. The "music café" that arose in Guangzhou in the early days of reform and opening up was the birthplace of domestic pop music mass culture, followed by the emergence of song halls and the nurturing of a developed domestic pop music industry. The "mouth culture" that began in Guangdong in the 1990s brought about the baptism of Western music dominated by rock music. Gojo ren is the child of the great era of cultural hybridization of the Wind and Cloud Association.
In 2003, Hou Hanru, an international curator from Guangzhou, curated the "Guangdong Express" in the "Emergency Zone" of the Armory Exhibition Area of the 50th Venice Biennale, which for the first time focused on the contemporary art and cultural landscape of the Pearl River Delta region to the West. In 2021, Gojoren's new album will echo a cross-era echo with a song "Canton Express", and this "Big Times Song Hall" concert can be regarded as the arrival and restart of the "Guangdong Express". The "Big Time Song Hall" is not only a concert, but also a joint carnival of contemporary art and mass culture, and the southern style of the five songs of the colorful clouds chasing the moon and the poetry book invisibly reflects the local modernization alternative path of "Global South".
The "Big Times Song Hall" Guangzhou concert will be opened at 17:00 on December 8.