Released a new album, toured back to Hangzhou Li Quan, the "tightrope walker" is back

The last time I met Li Quan was backstage at the 2018 West Lake Music Festival. Standing at the back of the stage, you can only see the back of Li Quan's vertical striped shirt and blue wide-legged pants, because of the leg injury, he is on crutches, and the highly sung "I want us to be together" sings the climactic part of "You say you say we don't want to be together", and the audience shouts in unison: Yes!

Repeating this picture with Li Quan on the WeChat voice phone, he smiled and said, "Then you have to look at me head-on this time." ”

Many, many years ago, Li Quan, who was still studying in Shanghai, often took a two- or three-hour train to Hangzhou, pressed the road to chat about music and visit the West Lake, and spent many Hangzhou weekends like this. Next month, Li Quan will bring his band to Hangzhou to perform at the city's new popular live house, the new "branch" of the wine ball club in Tianmu. This performance will revolve around Li Quan's newly released new record "Ten Days bomb", and the latter stage of this album is december last year, when the epidemic just broke out, so naturally, I thought of Boccaccio's "Ten Days Talk" with the same creative background.

With the band, back at the live house, Li Quan said that he still liked the scene. In the past four years, he has been running around in a series of leg injury surgeries, "Every time the operation is over, it will immediately be impossible to get off the ground.

It affects work and life. These four years have been anxiety, that anxiety that there is nothing to look forward to. "This new record made in this state of mind is undoubtedly some kind of export for him."

This is a complete album rarely seen in the Chinese music scene today, with ten complete songs and complete emotions. Li Quan unreservedly cast his confusion, anxiety, and fear into it, the arrangement of the title song "Fas reddipo" comes from Yan Jun, whose impressive version of "Love of a Lifetime" when he participated in "Singer", and the lyrics list includes the host Cao Qitai, who is Li Quan's friend for many years. Yi Jiayang, the lyricist of "The Man Who Walked the Tightrope", wrote "No Man's Mirror" for this album 20 years later, and Lin Hai, the "big god" who is already a popular costume drama OST (original music), wrote a song "Middle Age" for Li Quan. "The universe is so big, where do I go to find you" "Time is too fierce, too unreasonable to make trouble and too difficult to chase", grouped together is still "very Li Quan", poetic, philosophical, experimental. "Friends who have communicated for more than 20 years have written my life status into the song."

After the last surgery, Li Quan felt that "the current state is better than the state of previous years", because he does not have to walk on crutches, and the recovery of the performance has also rekindled his confidence in the stage and creation. Guitarist Wang Wenwei, independent musician Haeffer, drummer Wen Feng... Li Quan formed a band, it is difficult not to think that his good friend Fan Xiaoxuan has also operated like this before, "I talked to Xuanxuan, she thinks I am still making music, very good." ”

"After leaving the artist industry in 2006, I felt that I was not an 'artist' state." I heard that I was going to interview Li Quan, and a little sister with little stars in her eyes told me that her most girlish moment was brought to her by Li Quan. It was a certain Hangzhou performing arts bar more than ten years ago, when Li Quan was suddenly cue on stage, playing the piano while singing "I want us to be together", relayed to Li Quan, Li Quan has completely forgotten. "It's all normal, but I don't want to be that kind of shooting star for young boys and girls."

Li Quan & Band "Ten Days Of Bullets" LiveHouse tour Hangzhou station

Li Quan & Band "Ten Days"

LiveHouse tour Hangzhou stop

Show Time:

Sunday, January 10, 2021 at 20:30

Venue:

Hangzhou Cocktail Club @ Muli Space