Yesterday (March 4), independent musician and artist Zuo Xiaozu announced in the headlines to commemorate the anniversary of the release of the album "Four Masterpieces" released in 2019.
As a well-known independent musician in China and an independent artist, Zuo Xiaozu can be regarded as an alternative. The estrangement between him and Xie Tianxiao, another pioneer of rock and roll in China, and the incident in which the two once choked each other, also caused a lot of heated discussion. The incident of not closing the door at the toilet is a lot of people on Weibo.
On March 4, 2019, this day is Zuo Xiaozu's birthday, and on the same day, he released the first work of the "Four Masterpieces" album work: "The Manna". This time of year seems to be the day he commemorates every piece of work.
According to Zuo Xiaozu, the "Four Masterpieces" series of albums is divided into four parts, catering to the "four" number theory, alluding to the four traditional Chinese masterpieces. The album series consists of 38 tracks, with the entire album running at about 190 minutes, the longest single nearly 19 minutes long, and the shortest single less than 30 seconds. The "Four Masterpieces" series is a large-scale musical art genre that Zuo Xiaozu has been preparing for nearly 20 years, and the four parts are "Ganlu", "Immortal Society", "Mona Lisa" and "Jianghu", all of which have been released, which is also a big wish of Zuo Xiaozu.
Zuo Xiaozu cursed
After the album "Do You Know which Side the East Is" released in 2008, Zuo Xiaozu's creative activities were very active, and more than a dozen albums were released in 10 years, but none of them could attract attention like "You Know Which Side the East Is". Zuo Xiaozu once said in an interview that "Do You Know Which Side of the East" is the pinnacle of his personal music creation career, and since then no work has been able to surpass it. Including more than a dozen albums such as "Big Things" and "Temple Fair Journey II" released later, they cannot be as artistic as the artistic pleasure brought to him by "Do You Know Which Side of the East".
You know which side the East is on
Even if the album "Do You Know Which Side of the East" is priced at as high as 500 yuan, ranking first in the sales unit price of Chinese musicians' works has not been surpassed, and is regarded as a classic of Zuo Xiaozu's music works, it has always been difficult to be accepted by the public, and it has always been enshrined in a niche group, in today's words, it has not broken the circle. In the non-mainstream music circle, even if you have great influence, the works that cannot be accepted by the public and the works that cannot cause singing are all high and cold, and can only be shelved.
The "Four Masterpieces" series has been brewing for 10 years before being released, whether it is the length of the work, the musical attributes of the work, the social and cultural symbols reflected in it, etc., it is undoubtedly a musical work worth becoming a classic. More than three hours of volume, aimless creative inspiration, occasional bursts, occasional stagnation, from the 90s brewing to the official release in 2019, all the experienced in this, only in the process of listening to the album, can fully experience the arduous process of Zuo Xiaozu's creation. Take 20 years to make a work, in today's fast food era, relying on the internet era of drafts to become famous, an era that is so fast that it can only rely on single loops to become famous. Zuo Xiao's behavior, called a fool, does not seem to be excessive at all. As Zuo Xiaozu himself said: In fact, in addition to the art of that little thing or that little thing, as long as you keep digging to dig out miracles, there are more cooperation with people, do not be conservative, more importantly, do not care about people's opinions of you, do not care at all, concentrate, focus on their own things like a fool.
Perhaps, this is the original intention of Zuo Xiaozu to stick to his heart and do the works he wants to do.