Whose youth is not half bright, half sad; whose ideals are not depressed while insisting; especially with the ambition to make China's most cattle independent music, once young and crazy but knocked down by the wild storms in reality countless times and then stood up again, after experiencing the ebb and flow of the tide, the big waves and sand, those who finally firmly walk on the road of music have come out of a different life curve in the ups and downs.
Pictured: Zhang Weiwei, a folk singer who disappeared from public view for more than two years
Zhang Weiwei, a folk singer who has disappeared from public view for more than two years, holding an accordion and her new band and joining hands with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra String Quartet, presented a comeback work at the Shanghai Symphony Hall last weekend , "Kites and Birds", trying to "knead" folk songs into Bach's works, colliding with different fireworks. Zhang Weiwei said that this concert is a dream come true, because he especially likes Bach, in which he hears the sacredness of music and also hears the call, and he is willing to take this as a new starting point to start a new musical journey.
"Kites and Birds" is the lyrics of Zhang Weiwei's "Orphans of the Mist". "The kite is handmade, and no matter how high it flies, there is always a rope to hold, and it cannot be out of control, just like we interpret Bach's work; and the birds are wild, like a band playing music, there are no restrictions and frameworks, and the scene is improvised." Putting Bach's works and folk music on the same stage to "fly" is not only fun, but also Zhang Weiwei's reflection on the past folk song creation in more than two years of silence: "To change the folk song is always too focused on the characteristics of lyric creation and lack of musicality, and it is best to have the lyrics and music. ”
Photo: Zhang Weiwei presented a comeback work at the Shanghai Concert Hall
He has walked through the climax of the period of the beautiful drugstore band and the wild child band, from the "scrambled" accordion player to the singer-songwriter, and has also walked through the darkest moment when the band disbanded and did not have enough to eat... More than two years ago, Zhang Weiwei completely dropped everything, which stemmed from an ordinary fan letter. The writer was written by a young man who had only been on the job for a few years. The letter was written plainly and sincerely without any flowery words, even because it was written intermittently on a bumpy train, and the handwriting was somewhat crooked and carefully recognized. But this letter, like a ray of light, woke up Zhang Weiwei on the way.
"When I got this letter, we just performed a non-salty and not light performance in Guangzhou, although the response from the stage was also very warm, but I knew in my heart that it was not much better, but no one cared." Everyone then went to the celebration banquet, just like the routine of eating and drinking in life, no one talked about today's performance in a heated way, and no one was as miserable as ever for playing a certain sound or where there was a deficiency..." Zhang Weiwei recalled the shame and landless self-esteem of the moment she saw the letter, and turned her back several times uncomfortably.
Pictured: Zhang Weiwei in the performance
It was a boy who had listened to Zhang Weiwei's songs since college, and at Shantou University, he had also been hit by songs and looked forward to the future, but after graduating from college, he was eventually recalled by his family to work in a small county in Guangzhou. In order to come to see their concert, he had rushed to the scene the night before he left work, taking a car to change trains and then taking the subway, and when the concert was over, he had to rush back without delay for a moment, only in this way he could return to his post only 2 hours late.
"The letter was written by him on his way in and I don't know if that show ended up satisfying or disappointing him, but I know we didn't come up with the best. We are just some unknown people, just because there was some good music, we were pinned on the emotions and yearnings of others, and now we can afford this sustenance? Because of this letter, Zhang Weiwei began to examine the life of that period, and when the ideal was grinded into a routine by reality, this numb state made him shocked.
Photo: Zhang Weiwei is now back
"The most terrible thing about people is that they dare not accept greater happiness and greater pain, and the most terrible thing is cowardice and numbness." After realizing this, Zhang Weiwei pressed the "pause button" without hesitation. He took his Shanghai wife to Dali to settle down, live the most authentic life, get up early to visit the vegetable market, and then try to pick up the guitar and accordion again to write the feelings of life into music, and find the sincerity and enthusiasm that was once lost.
The "Kites and Birds" concert is Zhang Weiwei's return after more than two years of dormancy, this time back to Shanghai with his wife. "At that time, when I proposed marriage, I promised my mother-in-law that I would never leave Shanghai with her precious daughter, but within a month we would have gone to Dali." Through this concert, Zhang Weiwei, who "restarted", also decided to turn the focus of her future life back to Shanghai: "Not only a commitment to her family, but also a commitment to her family, but also to find like-minded people in Shanghai and form a new band, I believe this will be a new beginning." (Xinmin Evening News reporter Zhu Yuan)