Winky's new original concept album "Ten Thousand Dreams", its overall style naturally does not need to be emphasized, it must belong to the National Style series. This original concept work is also bound to become a high standard in the hearts of many Chinese music fans. After all, as a chinese singer-songwriter, Winky's accumulated rich experience and skillful musical techniques so far are enough to ensure that his music is both recognizable and professional.
In fact, when I listened to this album produced by Elephant Youfeng, the first thing that came to mind was another problem: audibility. When we talk about national style works, we seem to be more inclined to pay attention to specific elements and exclusive artistic conceptions, and it is usually easy to ignore whether the criterion that is the most fundamental basis of music is enough to achieve auditory friendliness. This is a cross-genre, cross-field golden thread, no matter what kind of music should have full listenability.
The album "Ten Thousand Dreams" made me feel the smooth listening experience from beginning to end.
Simply put, this is a work that can easily "go out of the loop". Because it has audibility that meets the aesthetic standards of universal music, 10 songs can be said to be extremely high in each capital.
Good audibility is based on intuitive hearing on the one hand. The composition of Winky's poems is well versed in the essence of beauty, which includes the digestion of the classic Oriental pentatonic scale, as well as the wider absorption of various composition forms such as the chromatic scale and the Western middle and middle tunes. In other words, the songs in the album "Ten Thousand Dreams", you can feel the wonderful charm of Chinese and Western. Therefore, the process of listening to the album is a process of constantly harvesting freshness, so that there will never be aesthetic fatigue, and every time a song is changed, another musical picture will appear.
This will successfully trigger the dynamic development of the sense of hearing, and the beauty can also have a variety of possibilities, just as the two songs of "Jiangnan Ballad" and "Peach Blossom Non-Non-Non", both belong to the beautiful melody, but can be different textures.
Excellent audibility, on the other hand, comes from the fusion of diverse stylistic elements, and it is precisely because of the variety of music presentation that the experience of "appreciation" can be guaranteed to continue, without tedious repetition and without speculative routines. In a sense, the album "Ten Thousand Dreams" is a deep experiment of Winky's poetry on chinese style music: jumping out of the solidified rules of conventional chinese style music, actively integrating various elements, electronic, classical, rock, folk, rap, etc. gather here to combine clever Fusion music.
Exquisite ideas will always make you "encounter" wonderful highlights in the process of listening to songs. What impresses me most personally includes, but is not limited to, the distant narrative meaning of strings and ethnic music in "Ballad of Jiangnan". The dreamy wonderland woven by electronic sounds in "Peach Blossom Non-Non-Non". "Even Pick the Storm" allows rock music and folk music to fully interact, and highlights the momentum and pattern in the process of continuous promotion. "Like a Dream" introduces the element of Hip-hop, so that the national style has the Flow of the times. The album's self-titled track "Ten Thousand Dreams" is blessed with Trap, making the flowing dream appear mysterious and thick...
In short, this is a standard "style award", and within the framework of ancient music you can feel the charm of global music. From this point of view, the album "Ten Thousand Dreams" is essentially an attempt to break through winky's poetry, and in the past he was famous for his "all-round machine", and he arranged a full series of work such as songwriting and singing mixing. In the new album, he chose to cooperate with different lyric creators and invited musicians with different styles to arrange the music, thus realizing the synchronization and richness of song text and musical form. From "one person is a team" to "having a team" in the true sense, it is only because of the ability to imagine that it has such a outstanding effect.
For works with the main idea of "one dream as the prelude, ten thousand dreams into poetry", it is reasonable to recruit high-level musicians to participate in cooperation. Because they provide different interpretations of "dreams" and different ways of expression, and then achieve the kaleidoscope of "dreams".
It can be said that it was he and their joint efforts to build a dream world in the album "Ten Thousand Dreams", and presented a new atmosphere of national style.
Of course, Winky's poems are always the protagonists in the "Ten Thousand Dreams". "Dreams" depend on construction, and at the same time need to rely on narration, and the protagonist of the story is naturally himself. What this says is that he makes all the stories about "dreams" on the album clear through singing expressions. Just as varied as the musical elements are his vocals. For different themes, different styles, he has his own flexible adjustments.
This is essentially the focus of national style music that is often ignored, and less attention is paid to the expressiveness of the true color of the human voice, but a lot of energy is invested in the shaping of the musical atmosphere. The problem directly leads to this is that it is not vivid, has no personality, and the world in the song appears to be suspended and false.
Although the "dream" should be surreal and illusory, it is still inseparable from the projection of reality, so even exaggerated dreams should have a realistic foothold. I think that's where Ten Thousand Dreams comes from. It contains a number of brilliant dreams, but it is still about the world we are familiar with and the people in this world. As a narrator, Winky's poetry is sung in a way that makes every story seem real and easy.
He has a deliberate design for vocals. In terms of the song "Dream Catcher", the main song part is the composure conveyed by the sufficient low-frequency overtones, and when the chorus is immediately transformed into a qingyuan triggered by high-position resonance, this transition has a sense of continuity of "slowly entering the dream". Then there is "Ten Thousand Dreams", a song with strong rhythm, the vocals have a sense of jumping matching, and the voice line of Winky's poem thus highlights the continuous sense of balance, constantly changing between the two sounds of light and dark, like a flashback between reality and dreams. Then there is "Even Pick the Storm", with the rock flavor, the vocals are resolute and full of weight, revealing full of pride. There is also the song "Children's Dream", the whole process is a significant sense of magnetism and gas, which is obviously the first point of view of singing, Winky poem is in the way of "telling personal experience" in the way of expression, so the whole song has a special subjective color, let us hear the vivid. If you talk about singing, the song "Like a Dream Order" is something you can't miss. Both in terms of style and singing, this song is the most special one on the album.
There is a Melody Rap paradigm here, but the rap of Winky's poems still chooses personalization, he is almost in rap in the way he tells as usual, and compared to the exaggerated tone, he is completely relaxed, everything is in the most ordinary state. In this way, in the "atypical Rap" work of "Like a Dream", we hear the most homely rap.
There is no need to force authenticity here, and the point I understand is that, first, this is one of the new ideas in Winky's poems, and secondly, this is a concrete embodiment of the new atmosphere of his national style. In the process of working with different musicians to create musical works, he actively seeks innovation and change. In addition, what I care about is that he has shown his singing ability far beyond that of many national style musicians, and he has also shown a more abundant personality.
In the musical works that weave dreams, there is no shortage of imagination, and of course, full of character personality. From this feeling, the album "Ten Thousand Dreams" is not only crossing the beautiful and exotic world, but also observing the human world. I think that the track "Human Volume" ends the entire album with a grand narrative, which is an analysis of "dreams" and a reflection on human affairs. In this song, I suddenly realized that the magnificent "universe" constructed by the album is not only to create wonders for us, but also to try to understand life and understand the world by showing dreams.
This work, defined as a "ten-year-old masterpiece of music", is convincing in both musical and ideological dimensions. Winky's poems worked hard with the team behind the scenes to finally polish his own personal "masterpiece" of national style. It has established a fascinating "Ten Thousand Dreams" world and established a characteristic national style. From all aspects, the album "Ten Thousand Dreams" can be called a rare and superior work.