Li Lifeng, who returned to the singer-songwriter, searched for the unknown but still had light

Remember the Li Lifeng of the first season of "Finding The Light Project"?

At that time, Li Lifeng, still a sophomore in his early twenties, was searched for by the "Search for Light Project" with the aura and vigor of his own music creation, as well as the ambition and light of musical exploration, and thus had the opportunity to release his first EP album "Exception/Mistracking".

After that, Li Lifeng worked as a singer-songwriter, and then turned from the front of the curtain to the backstage, and put the main energy into the behind-the-scenes work of music. Participation in the creation, arrangement, production, recording and other work has also made Li Lifeng an excellent behind-the-scenes musician. And his works in various ways have also appeared on many party stages, singer albums, and even in advertisements that many people are familiar with.

For example, the theme song of lawson brand micro-film "There is me behind me" was composed and sung by Li Lifeng.

It can be said that such a Li Lifeng has come to a stable stage of his career, but also a comfortable area on the right track in life, many people who enter the music circle because of their love of music will feel envious because of the career goals set by Li Lifeng.

However, Li Lifeng is "not satisfied", obviously already in a comfortable zone, but he has to enter a new "unknown field", let everything start again, let himself start again as a singer-songwriter.

From a utilitarian point of view, such a start from scratch, because it requires musicians to pay more energy, so it "seems to be cost-effective". But in the world of music, such a break and reinvention of the self is the fate of a musician, and it is also the mission of a musician.

So, there is now this "Uncharted Territory" album.

Even in the contemporary music scene with new carriers and endless conceptual levels, "Uncharted Territory" is a very special album, at least in terms of the innovation of the gameplay.

So far, Uncharted Territory has released five works, "Wandering Planet", "Love in Front of You", "Say Goodbye", "Dracula" and "Simply Put", so it is logical to define this album as an EP in the descriptions of some music platforms and media.

In fact, the "Unknown Territory" that we have heard so far is not yet a complete album, because the production and release of this album adopts a "ongoing" model. This "in progress" is not a random or arbitrary release, but more like the album itself, but also as an open creation, as the singer explores one song after another, those unknown areas will be revealed one by one, and finally constitute a complete album.

But what is very rare is that as a musician who has changed from singer-songwriter to behind-the-scenes, and then from behind-the-scenes to singer-songwriter, Li Lifeng's "Unknown Territory" is not like most musicians with the same path, and ultimately reflects more technical innovation and refinement.

From another point of view, this unknown concept in "Unknown Territory" also includes sensibility and emotion for Li Lifeng. And sensibility and emotion, many times is the original intention and vitality of music creation.

Therefore, there are such affectionate and moving love songs as "Wandering Planet" and "Love in Front of You", and have unique imagery, compared with the debut work of "Exception/Misalignment", Li Lifeng now has more maturity and calmness, as well as the sensitivity and insight behind the music creation.

"Wandering Planet" compares the emotional intersection of two people to the intersection of two wandering planets meeting and missing, this image is simple but vivid, and it is extremely graphic. That sense of potential impact also extends to a regretful sense of loss and heartache.

"Love in Front of You" uses the connection of two points at the fingertip as the entrance to the entire work, and also gives the work a very warm and romantic temperament. Retro Urban music lines, light and soft, both interludes like monolo synth solo, but also some R&B tricks of Li Lifeng combining emotions in the chorus part, the whole work sounds like a sigh and ups and downs, and also puts a song about confession, showing a very emotional level.

In addition to the two songs created by Li Lifeng, he also covered all the instrumental performance and computer programming, emotional and technical expressions, so they became more integrated.

"Say Goodbye" as a sad song about separation, but in the musical text covers a greater sense of space. The song has both the rotation of the earth and the memory of youth, and the poetic lyrics between time and space, which naturally make the whole song, in addition to the expression of emotion, have a kind of openness and open-mindedness, and the emotional theme is therefore also related to life.

At the same time, "Say Goodbye" is also a work of pop rock structure, which has more angular and hard corners than ordinary pop songs, and has more delicate emotional layers than simple rock songs. In particular, the distorted guitar solo, in this era, not only sounds full of vitality and tension, but also echoes with the human voice, just like another mirror image and dialogue sound, sounding moving and cheerful.

"Dracula" is Li Lifeng's exploration of the unknown field of music on another level. A historical legend, a terrifying character and image, under Li Lifeng's rich imagination and creativity, let love meet with the "immortal body", so that a bloody story becomes a legend about love.

The addition of Latin rhythms makes the work full of mysterious atmosphere, the music also has a sense of charm, combined with the theme of this work, it sounds extremely magical.

"In simple terms" is a simple but not simple love song, and even returns people to the golden age of love songs in the Chinese music scene.

A love song about regret, but in Li Lifeng's delicate insight and expression, the sadness became more intense. "A preference for dessert, a keen on coffee", such details may be the daily life of our ordinary people's emotional life, but just the right song, but there is a very good sense of picture presentation, not only so that the work has a stronger dramatic tension, in fact, in the theme level of the whole work, it also plays a role in carrying on the transition.

The background of the strings, the right band laying out, and the emotion of Li Lifeng when singing in this song are also impressive.

Li Lifeng is not the kind of singer with a big voice, and he also relies on strength to reflect the details of the vocals. His interpretation is more based on the rendering of emotions, and on the key card points, those small techniques appear just right. Therefore, Li Lifeng's singing voice sounds like a strong sense of narrative and chanting first, that kind of eloquence, that kind of crying, and finally far beyond the range and technology, and gives the power to hit people's hearts.

"Unknown Territory" is not yet finished, there are still some unknown possibilities, can only wait until the work is online, can let people get a glimpse of the end, but from the perspective of the five works that have been released, Li Lifeng, who returned as an original singer many years later, undoubtedly let himself out of the comfort zone of life and start again, becoming very meaningful.

Many people are talking about finding the original intention of music, Li Lifeng did such a thing.