In the midst of many Weibo comments, you'll find a strange name from time to time: JaJaTao. This band, which currently has no entries in Baidu Encyclopedia, has been making its own different voices under the ground in China.
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On May 20, 2016, an album called "The Times Are Calling" came out, and it quickly caused a heated discussion among music fans like a bomb. With electric guitars, gongs and drums and model plays, the listener's thoughts were instantly pulled back to rural China in the last century.
In the album, "Xiangling Drums" is sung like this:
"I opened my eyes for the money
I opened my mouth for food
In order to die I let go of my hand
To love me forked my legs "...
"Blind Mountain" is sung like this:
"It's bigger, more, and you open your mouth slightly."
Hate to suppress so much Pain Layri married to the slope of the funeral
Black, white, sister, you're going to sleep fast
Touch your small head Dream Limo bumped into a ghost"...
Rough style, obscure lyrics, with the lead singer's fierce and strange singing voice, the terrifying side of Chinese culture is just coming at you.
Listen to each song, and you will be amazed that there are still people making such music in China. "Sometimes it's like an underground punk hero who has strayed into the model play era and folk white things, and sometimes it's like a baby crying and praying to the gods, moody but angular."
In the next year's Annual List recommended by the editors of Shrimp Mi Music, "The Times Are Calling" won the first place under the pressure of "Ugly Slave", which was also a debut work, and it was the limelight for a while. Douban 1743 people scored 8.8, shrimp 567 people scored 9.6, well-deserved "God's work".
Top 3 on the list
And the significance of their appearance is far more than that of a new young band. The fake strip is unique – Republic punk.
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When "The Times Are Calling" came out, the band's creator, lead singer, and guitarist Liu Youcao was only 21 years old. At that time, he was dropping out of the Berkeley Conservatory of Music and returning to Beijing, and after completing four semesters of credits a year, he used the money saved to produce the album.
Like most young people who play bands, Yo Fu also embarked on the path of music under the subtle influence of various types of rock music. Black Sabbath, Marilyn Manson, Pink Floyd...
You can easily find the shadow of Nirvana in them, and yourself also says,... Whether in meaning or form, I'm trying to do something alternating, I'm holding a punk root doctrine, and that's where Nirvana influences me the most. “
Among the Chinese singers, he likes Cui Jian and Luo Dayou, and even covers the latter's "Comrade Lover" on the album, with an aggressive guitar and a scream that breaks through the ears, turning this cover into one of the most powerful versions.
Cover song copyright
After graduating from Beijing No. 4 Middle School, he was admitted to the Berklee College of Music to major in acting and jazz composition, and his excellent professional knowledge laid a solid foundation for him. He got a band of Americans who could Chinese, but he never found the right direction to go.
The school offered a course on traditional Japanese musical instruments, but after the lesson, he was a little disappointed: although all the titles in the book were Chinese characters, and many times showed japan's preservation and promotion of Tang Dynasty culture, the teacher rarely mentioned Chinese folk music, as if it did not exist.
He went to the teacher's theory, but the answer was that the so-called Chinese famous songs were actually formed after the 20th century, and they were not really traditional folk music. And Berkeley, where all kinds of music forms are fully developed and integrated around the world, there are no students doing music that belongs to China, and the heart of The Exercise is very unpleasant.
He is not satisfied with the band's traditional three pieces of guitar, bass, and drums, but strives for freshness. After "getting to know the nature of the musical instrument and the noisy aesthetic tendencies of some Chinese folk music", Yo Cao decided to add a sigh to his music. And this candidate, not his fellow Chinese folk music master, is known as the "first person to play the music" - Mr. Guo Yazhi is no one.
Guo Yazhi album "Rivers and Rivers"
At present, most young people feel pedantic and outdated when they hear about the art related to "nation", but Guo Yazhi rarely faces such negative evaluations.
Born in 1966, Guo Yazhi has been proficient in traditional folk music and Western instruments since childhood, but he did not want to rest on his laurels, so he resigned from the teaching position of the Central Conservatory of Music at the age of 31 and went to the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra as the principal dancer.
He created a freely retractable core, and the improved oh na is proficient in carrying and turning, getting rid of many restrictions of tradition. His strength has also allowed him to win numerous awards in major competitions at home and abroad, and Boston Radio even called Guo Yazhi "China's Lewis Armstrong".
In 2012, he went to Berkeley to continue his studies in jazz. Guo Yazhihe, who has always pursued the combination of Chinese tradition and world music, hit it off with Cao, and after listening to the latter's new song "Dog Dog", he decided to work with this young man who was nearly 30 years younger than him.
The two performed at the Central Conservatory of Music
To say that the combination of folk music and rock and roll, fake fake strips are not avant-garde.
Dou Wei's flute has long become a classic, and Xie Tianxiao's guzheng is also unique; in terms of na, Cui Jian sang "I used to ask endlessly" as early as 1986, and the second-hand rose used it from time to time to blow up the whole field, and this summer's popular Jiulian Zhenren often used it as a big killer.
Nine Real People in "Summer of the Band"
And the fake fake strip can stand out from the crowd, and the perfect fusion of na and arrangement is indispensable. The sound that tore through the sky injected rock 'n' roll with a different kind of fresh blood, high but not harsh, excited but not impetuous. You don't feel out of place, you just feel the two voices complement each other and explode with more powerful force.
Yoo Then he found bassist Yu fei and drummer Fu Rong, and officially formed the band "Fake Fake".
After the work was completed, he sent it to his classmate Sean Slade, a legendary American producer who has produced records such as "Pablo Honey" and "Live Through This" for Radiohead and Hole. Unexpectedly, Sean agreed to come down to help, which was also his first collaboration with a Chinese band.
In this way, writing lyrics, arranging and recording, and false false strips conform to the call of the times, opening a new door for Chinese rock music.
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"I love it all the time, I get tired all the time, I am always afraid, I am relieved all the time."
When confronted with "Is music your obsession or just a hobby?" Has there ever been a moment when you suddenly find yourself tired of music? The question was answered with the.
In fact, he prefers to arrange behind-the-scenes productions such as songwriting, which in his words is "let yourself hear".
"The Times Are Calling" has been released for more than three years, and the fake fake has only launched "Yellow Bell · Two singles, Tai Lu " and "Cut Chop La". However, this also reflects their seriousness and rigor in music, the new song maintains the previous high standard, and Cao Cao also revealed in Weibo that he will continue to cooperate with Mr. Guo Yazhi, making people full of expectations for the new album.
Musical Instrument Rogue - Electric Sigh
After listening to the song, many people speculate that YoFu may be a depressed, dark mysterious figure, but outside of music, Yofu is actually not much different from ordinary young people.
He likes to read Lu Xun's books, likes kubrick and Jim Jarmusch's movies; he will gag with fans on Weibo, argue with those who criticize him, and often forward some interesting pictures or videos, if it is not written in the introduction "Brokerage business please contact XXX", and Cao Cao looks like a big boy with a literary atmosphere.
With Cao and Dong Yaqian, the reason for the slow singing was found (mistaken)
But on stage, yo yo look has never changed: long hair, black sunglasses, half a face covered with lipstick. A large "no" was painted on the throat, and inside the dark red sweater was a long brown skirt that hung to the ground.
Fixed styling with the
At a glance, you'd think he was imitating Heath Ledger's clown image. In fact, the red sweater was knitted for him when his grandmother was still alive, and he forgot to take it after a performance, and he couldn't sleep all night and went straight to the venue early in the morning, and when he found it, he almost shed tears.
And it's only when you see him standing in front of you in this outfit that you understand why they're called "funerary rock":
The performance scene is full of gongs and drums, and at the climax of the singing, the audience will take out the prepared paper money and sprinkle it into the sky, with alternating colors of light, everything looks so strange and psychedelic, this strange atmosphere is impossible for other bands to replicate.
At the time of the performance
After the show
Three days ago in Chongqing, he collaborated with experimental singer Sanko Nachiyak on a "Blind Mountain" (which is difficult to come from before) with experimental singer Sanko Nachiyak, and the effect was amazing.
Fake fakes are still one of the few bands that stick to the Chinese element, "I think the inspiration in music is actually "the inspiration you get from other materials other than the material you want to do in this area." 」 For example, Chinese folk music inspired me to make my current musical style, not exactly Western rock music. ”
The integration of musical styles gives us reason to believe that fake fakes can use their unique music to continue to bring different surprises to Chinese music fans.