Who is Yoshida?
Two years ago, "Big Fish and Begonias" was released, and the sophistication of the picture and music became the benchmark of national comics, and in addition to the directors Liang Xuan and Zhang Chun, there is also a very important figure, that is, the musician Yoshida Jie from Japan.
As a teenager, Yoshida began to learn piano, and when he was in middle school, he tried to make animated films and form bands with friends, and in the process he came up with the idea of making music independently.
Later, Yoshida went to the Berkeley Conservatory of Music to study, choosing music choreography and film scoring as her major direction.
After graduating and returning to China, Yoshida Jie chose to develop in the field of music, and her style was widely involved, including pop music, commercial soundtrack, film and television soundtrack, etc.
Since signing to Pacific Moon, a famous Japanese label specializing in New Age and World Music, Yoshida has released a number of albums based on Japanese + electronic music, such as "Fight", "Matsuri", "Samurai" and so on.
During the same period, Yoshida wrote music for many NHK documentaries, giving birth to masterpieces such as "The Distant Journey of the Japanese", and even became the royal musician of NHK documentaries.
In addition, Yoshida has also composed music and composed music for animation and film and television such as "The Girl Who Traveled Through Time" and "Mobile Battleship Nadesico".
Yoshida's music has strong traces of oriental traditions and winds.
Since studying music at Berkeley, Yoshida has had a strong sense of her Asian identity.
Much of his music is dominated by oriental acoustic instruments such as shakuhachi, Japanese, and taiko drums, mixed with pianos, violins, and even Western instruments such as electric guitars, as well as vocal chants, electronic music, and other elements.
At the end of October, Yoshida took the band to China and gave her three solo concerts in Shanghai and Shenzhen for the first time. Lao Yan had the privilege of experiencing the grand music world of Yoshida Jie once on the spot.
The theme of the concert is "Big Fish and Begonias".
Throughout the concert, Yoshida and the band told the magnificent story of "Big Fish and Begonias" one by one in musical form, which had a completely different feeling from watching the movie.
The band's instruments include the Oriental instrument shakuhachi, Japanese and taiko drums and 25-string zither, western instruments violin, piano, guitar, and a set of various sounds.
On the stage, the East-West musicians use Yoshida Jie and the piano in front of him as the dividing line, and the distinction is clear;
In the music, the music of the East and the West is intertwined in various ways, inseparable, and pushes the pieces of music to the climax.
According to Jie Yoshida, the two directors of "Big Fish and Begonias" contributed a lot to this concert.
The tour poster full of Yoshida's musical imagery is by Zhang Chun, so Yoshida Jie also specially dyed a hair color that is the same as the poster.
At the same time, the two directors also independently edited the background video according to the theme of each song for the concert, and many of the pictures were not even seen in the movie.
Listening to Yoshida's music on the spot, you can more truly feel his grand and melodious musical world view.
Just as he produced the soundtrack for the NHK documentary, the soundtrack of "Big Fish and Begonias" also fully demonstrates Yoshida's exploration of nature.
At the concert, Yoshida posted a photo of his home by the sea.
From the balcony of his house, you can see the vast sea and beautiful scenery, and the nearby coast is where the annual fireworks festival is held.
It's easy to think of the sky and the sky in his music, or the fleeting fireworks-like fragments.
Many have expressed doubts about masters like Yoshida accepting the soundtrack work of an uncertain animation project in China.
Initially, director Liang Xuan made a short film of one of his dreams called "Big Sea", which he had been making with Yoshida's music at the beginning, and finally used Yoshida's "The Distant Journey of the Japanese" as the soundtrack.
Later, Liang Xuan wanted to make a short film, so he had the idea of asking Jie Yoshida to score the film.
Liang Xuan and Zhang Chun, who traveled to Japan without speaking Japanese at all, showed Yoshida Jie a short film and stumbled to express their thoughts to Yoshida In broken English.
After Yoshida listened, he accepted the job.
Liang Xuan and Zhang Chun both hoped to get music like "The Distant Journey of the Japanese", while Yoshida Felt that after more than a decade, he and zhang Chun had changed a lot when they made this song, and finally the two sides recognized each other's "empty inspiration" in the general direction.
Transnational communication was bound to make it difficult to communicate, and the project also underwent changes in the script, which allowed the entire soundtrack work to last for two full years.
In 2016, the animated film "Big Fish and Begonias", which was prototyped by the short film "Big Sea", was released, and the old dream was still there, but it was deeper and broader.
For this kind of soundtrack work that requires a lot of time to communicate, Yoshida Jie actually does not feel that the cost of communication is too high and is unwilling to do it.
Instead, he believes that it is important to communicate in order to understand the customer's requirements.
Compared with the less mature market in China, Japan's music market is highly developed, the division of labor in the industry is clear, and the degree of specialization of the industry is also very high.
Yoshida is very rational about the profession of "soundtrack", and clearly states that she is "not interested" in music that is "only based on her own feelings and interests and away from customers and audiences"!
This rare trait among domestic music creators has made such a cross-era cooperation.
Listening to Yoshida's concert is enjoyable, watching Yoshida's film score is even more of a pleasure, and I look forward to the opportunity to cooperate with Chinese films again in the future.
I just don't know, will I still meet works like "Big Fish and Begonias" that match his musical temperament?
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