Text/Yangcheng Evening News all-media reporter Hu Guangxin
In 2021, Guo Caijie launched an independent and temperamental electronic pop album "Vol. 13 - 1986 Counting Sheep" and embarked on a national tour of the "Nomadic Cities Project". For this plan, Guo Caijie believes that the word "nomadic" is more accurate than "tour" - the tour is to go to an unfamiliar environment alone and bring performances to strange listeners; nomad is to bring all the belongings, in the heart, to feast on guests.
On September 20, Guo Caijie will "nomadic" to Guangzhou, "counting sheep" in Yangcheng, what will it feel like?
Before becoming an actor, Guo Caijie was a singer.
She officially debuted as a Warner Records singer in 2007, and has since released solo music albums such as "Invisible Superman", "Love Fantasy", "Fireworks", "Give Him" and so on. In 2015, she decided to focus on her role as an actress first, and the soundtrack of the mini-movie "Love To Make Flying Chicken" became her music scene.
Two years later, in 2017, Guo Caijie quietly brought a big surprise to music fans: she cooperated with independent musician Ah Yan to release "The Other Me in the World", announcing her return to singerhood. In December 2019, she co-authored "Before I Became an Organized Adult" with Arany, guitarist and lead singer of the changing ball band ARNY, which won a lot of praise.
In 2020, the world pressed the blank button, but Guo Caijie launched a long-brewing musical adventure. Leaving taiwan, Where she has lived for a long time, Guo Caijie meets a variety of companions on the mainland - Yider (music production), Asir (keyboard), Zhou Guanchen (bass/synthesizer), Xu Zhiyao (drum), Dadi (guitar), Teom Chen (interactive vision) and Xiao Ke (art director)... This year, Guo Caijie teamed up with electronic nomadic musician Yider to create a new album "Vol.13 - 1986 Counting Sheep", which debuted as an album for the electronic music label nomad City Records. They turned the magic of electronic music into a dose of tenderness to the world. The infinite encoding code, code-named AK, is also surging towards the future.
In Vol. 13 - 1986 In Counting Sheep, Guo Caijie injects the free-spirited temperament belonging to the grasslands and nomads into the electronic atmosphere pop style. In the "Nomadic City Project" national tour, Guo Caijie and her partners will use music as a medium to lead the audience to an "urban nomad".
The director and new media visual artist Teom Chen, who produced interactive visuals for this tour, has recently become known to domestic electronic music fans as Howie Lee's touring partner. Influenced by Taoist and I Ching philosophies, his work spans video, painting, animation, powerplant and interactive game programming. On this parade, he will manipulate interactive images on the spot to create a surreal atmosphere, and through the exquisite narrative structure, he will explain the dialectical relationship between conflict and harmony, opposition and unity in the "nomadic city".
Leading the stage aesthetics is one of China's most exploratory artists, the dancer Xiao Ke. Since the age of 6, she has a profound foundation in folk dance and modern dance, and has actively intervened in the discussion of the relationship between individual life and social life in the fields of body art, cross-media creation, theater art, video art, installation art, etc., and has cooperated with different artists extensively, winning the highest awards in art at home and abroad. Proficient in artistic language and not bound by artistic techniques, Xiao Ke, as a contemporary performing artist, has a profound and inseparable insight into the collision and mixing of different fields such as nature and city, grassland and stage, and the collision and mixture of cultures behind them.
At present, the "Nomadic City Plan" Guangzhou Station has been invoiced. The tour will also reach Chengdu, Beijing, Changsha and Kunming.
EDIT: Kelp