In 2012, Ji Kejunyi from the Yi ethnic group surprised the audience with a song "Don't Be Afraid" on the stage of "The Voice of China".
Under Ji Ke's elegant interpretation, this song seems to float from the Liangshan Mountains, bringing the most simple comfort to urban people.
When "Don't Be Afraid" became popular, the author Moxi Zishi officially became a music creator from a daily worker.
This is the boldness of a man in his early thirties who has a life that is difficult for the "chicken baby clan" to imagine.
Mo Xizishi was born in 1978 and grew up in Daliangshan, Sichuan.
As a child, he always ran around barefoot, on the road, in the field, he would always hear people singing.
The family was poor and had no toys, and his mother often hung the mouth string around his neck, about the size of a finger, and the bamboo spring piece mouth string made a desolate sound, which was the earliest musical enlightenment of Moxizi's poem.
In the early 1990s, the "Mountain Eagle Group" turned out to be a national from Daliangshan Red.
In the third year of Moxizi's junior year, the "mountain eagles" came to his school, and they sat on the grass and played the guitar with their guitars, which was the first time Moxizi heard the sound of the guitar, and as soon as the sound came out, the soul of Moxizishi was hooked.
Moxizi, who didn't even know the short score, began teaching herself guitar, saving up some pocket money every week, going to the record store for a few hours on weekends, and then buying tapes and CDs to go home.
After graduating from high school, Mo Xizishi studied at Normal University in Liangshan, and at that time he began to be exposed to music composition. Qi Qin's "The Outer World" gave him a lot of feelings, and slowly, he also wanted to go to the outside world to see it.
After graduating from university, Moxi Zishi went to Shanghai, studied Japanese for two years, and became a Japanese translator for a foreign company.
Life looks good, but his inner musical complex is always ready to move.
So he quit his job in Shanghai and went to Beijing.
In Beijing, he worked as a tour guide, as a salesman, as a street vendor, and finally he couldn't even muzzle.
In 2008, the man, who was just 30 years old, began to retreat, "I am a teacher training major, or I will simply go back to which school to teach." ”
Then one day, Mo xizishi was sitting in his friend's shop playing the piano, and when he saw the foreigners outside the window who were busy with their lives, he suddenly felt that he should insist on it again.
Moxizi described herself as "I walked around for a long time after I went out, and suddenly I could write songs for a year, and I thought it was a wonderful feeling, and then I kept trying to create." ”
Mo Xizishi wrote the first song of his life that day, "AjieKu", which means "Ajieku" in the Yi language, don't be afraid, don't be sad.
"Spring to autumn, the mood rises and falls, the time flows, the years go by, don't be afraid, don't be afraid..."
"Ajay" was later included in the solo album Black Hawk Dream by Mountain Hawk member Waqi Yihe, renamed "Don't Be Afraid".
In 2012, Jike Junyi covered the song on "The Voice of China" and became a hit.
The year after the creation of "Don't Be Afraid", Moxizi and her friends formed a "two pieces of copper" band, while making music and being a tour guide, life was divided into two halves, half ideal and half reality.
Once Moxi Zishi came home from work, out of the subway mouth, the world rained heavily, the intersection was surrounded by water, people rushed forward, cars are also rushing forward, no one will let anyone take a step.
Moxizishi decided to wait for less people before leaving.
The moment he stopped, the rain hit him with a loud sound, and he suddenly thought of an old American movie "Song in the Rain", as if he had become the protagonist of dancing in the rain.
Back home, Moshizi wrote "Reincarnation".
"Under this river, the wind is blowing, the crazy animals in the rainstorm are running wildly, going to cast a good fetus, the road is long, oh, slow down, listen to the cry of the earth, dance lightly, dance."
He hopes that everyone can slow down and enjoy life more.
In 2010, beijing's Caochangdi Art District held an event where poets, musicians and artists often gathered, and it was there that Mo xizishi met the poet Yu Xinqiao.
Later, he read the poetry collection sent to him by Yu Xinqiao and created the hit songs "If You Want to Die, You Must Die in Your Hands" and "Pull the City to the Countryside to Feed the Dogs".
In 2011, Moxizishi quit her job and devoted herself to music creation.
He often went to the recording studio to record songs, and a song called "Mother's Ballad" was heard by Dou Wei, because the two made friends later.
Usually they are together in the studio, playing with improvisation.
The following year, inspired by the launch of Tiangong, they collaborated on an atmospheric music called "Tiangong Tu".
In those years, Moxizi also had a beautiful love.
When working as a tour guide, Moxi Zishi met a Japanese girl who came to China to intern, Saori, a girl who thought that weeds were more beautiful than roses, and the two romantic people fell in love.
At the end of her internship, Saori returned to Japan, and her exotic love made Moshizi suffer from lovesickness.
Because he missed his beloved girl, he wrote "The Moon and the Sea", "How Far Is Forever", and the enthusiastic "If You Want to Die, You Must Die in Your Hands".
In 2013, Canxing Productions considered doing an original program after doing "The Voice of China Season 1", and Moxi Zishi was invited.
At that time, many friends around him opposed it, and independent musicians participating in variety shows meant compromising with vulgarity. But Moxizi wanted to see how receptive his music could be.
So the following year, Moxi Zishi took "If You Want to Die, You Must Die in Your Hands" dedicated to his girlfriend, he went to "Good Chinese Songs".
"If you don't light it with your own hands, it can't be called a flame, and if you don't touch it with your own hands, it can't be called a gem."
In the final, Moxi Zishi partnered with veteran rock singer Zheng Jun to transform this warm and simple folk song into a very rhythmic rock song, and finally won the runner-up.
This passionate audio-visual feast, many viewers shouted that it was not addictive to listen to it once, but they wanted to 'die' again immediately.
Singers such as Karen Mok, Tan Weiwei, Tian Fuzhen, and Yang Kun also became fans and covered the work.
Just when everyone thought that MoxiZishi could finally use this time to show his fists in the pop music scene, he faded out of the public vision and chose to return to himself.
Moxi Zishi liked a sentence by Hu Lancheng in "China's Lile Scenery": Music cannot be uncomfortable.
In September 2014, MoxiZishi released the Yi album "Wilderness", which is a very original and free album.
Moxizishi said that this was his "psychedelic mountain song", which contained yi language that people did not understand, and the vast and distant voices and shouts.
Forest, moon, mountain fish, zhiyi, luoji mountain... The Yi people advocate animism, and these natural images, which have been hiding in the subconscious of Moxizi's poems, emerge and become the protagonists of the 12 works in "The Wilderness".
Almost every song in it has a story.
"Knowing only called for three days" is taken from a saying of the Yi people, after knowing that after breaking the ground, the tweet period is only three days, and the brilliant time is short.
Moxizi wants to use this song to express that people should cherish each other.
"Mountain Fish" was inspired by the forest he walked through as a child.
As a child, Moxizishi studied far from home, passing through a large forest with a cemetery between the forest and his home.
Walking to the forest after school, it is already late, and you have to walk through a cemetery, and a little wind and grass can make little Moxizi poetry scare away the soul.
His mother told him that when he went to school tomorrow, he would pick up a stone by the river and put it in his bag, and the residual heat of the sun on the stone would make the ghosts dare not come closer.
The next day, Moxizishi took his friends to the river to collect stones, and every day after that, with the protection of stones, he was never afraid again.
"Throwing Chicken" is about the enthusiasm of their Yi people.
If there are guests in the Yi family, even if there is nothing to entertain at home, they must go to someone else's house to borrow, such as borrowing a chicken.
This very niche all-Yi album "Wilderness" quickly broke through the Chinese music scene dominating the pop music screen, and at the 15th Chinese Music Media Awards, Mo xizi poetry was nominated for 9 nominations and 3 awards.
With fame came his increasingly busy work.
It took him a lot of energy to deal with various affairs such as band organization, rehearsals, and performances, because he did not like the sense of constraint of others running his own business, and Moxizishi did not sign up for an agency.
"Although I am a little tired now, I feel very comfortable, very willful, and it is also my own choice, and there must be gains and losses."
Four years after "Wilderness", he released his second album, Moonlight White.
On the new album, Moxizi hopes to be able to make things that keep pace with the times, the style is no longer limited to folk or ethnic feelings, he integrates many acoustic instruments such as drums, mouth strings, and mabu with modern Western instrumental music such as keyboards, basses, and electric guitars.
He wrote on the cover of this album, "May you hear this album, your heart is soft, and there is a light in the road ahead; may you and I be sweet, real, and vivid, and live with the 'me' in your heart." ”
The album's self-titled song "Moonlight Is Very White" comes from another poet, Wang Xiaoni.
Mo xizishi saw Wang Xiaoni's poem write: "The moon shines out all the bones in the middle of the night." I exhaled the breath of green and white, the trivial fur of the world, turning into a falling firefly. ”
He was instantly impressed.
It was still on the way to school, and every morning when Moxizishi left the house, it was still dark, and when she looked up, she could see a silver moon.
A few years ago, Mo Xizishi returned to Daliangshan and saw that the tile houses and rammed earth houses in many places had been demolished, and the fire pond was gone, and he was very sad.
At that time, he began to collect bottles, cans, pots, pans, agricultural tools and other objects discarded during relocation in the Yi villages of the county, and then used them as sound utensils.
If people can enter these artifacts on which the Yi people once lived, touch and beat them gently, they can feel the sound left by this 'wasteland'.
Later, Moxi Zishi prepared the "Wasteland Project" in his hometown to build a wasteland library in Daliangshan.
On the basis of its own function, the library has joined a series of cultural activities such as music, drama, painting, winter and summer camps, traditional handicraft education, traditional language and writing, songs, ballads and proverbs, etc., and has become a comprehensive cultural and artistic public welfare space integrating books, art, handicrafts, folklore and tradition.
He hoped that in addition to providing basic community services for baimiao villagers, the library would also become a small cultural base in Xichang and a representative of Liangshan's cultural activities.
Moxizishi always remembers the mouth strings that his mother used to hang around his neck when he was a child, and now this ancient instrument is disappearing.
After so many years away from home, he learned to make mouth strings.
As long as he hears the sound of the Yi mouth strings, he will feel particularly down-to-earth.
The low, desolate voice of the mouth string reminded him at all times,
"Where you come from, don't lose yourself."
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