With the release of the first part of the three singles "After You Say", "Strange" and "Wait Again" at the end of June, which attracted praise from many listeners, as a new solo album "Shen/Vision" that Shen Yulun has been violating for two years, the remaining 7 works have also been fully exposed online recently. With its unique and recognizable singing voice and beautiful interpretation, before the arrival of the annual "Tanabata Festival", we will sing the deepest resonance and thinking of "love" with singing.
As the name of this new album "Shen / Vision" marked, is a kind of past experience of the review, understanding, but also a comparison and reflection on the current situation of life, Shen Yulun, who was once rated as the "Most Popular Wind Indicator Male Singer Award of the Year", this time can be described as a big play "creation" - in addition to handing over the singing interpretation, as well as the lyrics, in different works, he is very delicate with different tones and breaths, the ultimate expression of different contexts and feelings in the lyrics, The ten works included in it are handed over to the audience, which are three-dimensional and complete touching and resonating. The previously released title "After You Say" is the best proof, in addition to the abundant texture he handed over in the interpretation, the rational and sensual parallel layout in the lyric scene brings the audience a touch, but also a kind of thinking about the current life scene.
In the second part, jumping out of the first part of the sensual and rational parallel layout, a song "Butterfly" brings the ear to a more dramatic tension and ancient color. "The thoughts of the sky are scattered in front of the eyes", from the first sentence sung by Shen Yulun, it is enough to make the audience feel the hidden theme of this part - time, trying to describe it in a way that breaks the limitations of time and space and has a broader vision, and the theorem that love is eternal and unchanging in years and months. Coupled with the subsequent "Flowing Year" and "Moon Wei yang", whether it is the poetry presented in the lyrics or the diversity shown by the arrangement and orchestration, it is very obvious that the theme of this part is white. It is a more interesting attempt in the album, whether it is the mixing and matching of Chinese and Western instruments that appear in a large number of arrangements, or Shen Yulun's delicate and deep voice performance, as well as the charm integrated in the lyrics, the result will be more "drama" flavor. It was as if he had incarnated as an ancient man, singing and singing in the midst of all the silence, stripping away the cocoon from the interlacing of time, and understanding in the vastness of life...
I have to say that with the exposure of the second and third parts of the work, Shen Yulun's progress in singing has become more and more obvious, whether it is the expression of different emotions or the use of singing skills, it has gradually become handy, listening to the whole album in one breath, it will be aware that his greater intention this time is to use singing to create love songs with strong personal labels. Just like "Hua Butterfly", whether it is the title of the song or the literal expression of "red dust gathering" and "reincarnation", it will have a very strong Chinese style color label. However, in terms of arrangement, a large number of Chinese instruments are not directly used in the melody. Along with the first sentence of its opening vocals, there is the silent sound of a clean piano, and then the addition of strings, until after the climax, a long "erhu" paragraph is added in the form of vocal erhu ventriloquism, to reflect the sadness expressed in the song that "this life is blank for you, not waiting for generosity". In addition to being moved by Shen Yulun's affectionate and sad singing, the arrangement is also full of ingenuity and novelty.
"Flowing Year", which uses the piano as the main theme, introduces Chinese instruments such as guzheng, flute, horse head qin and other Chinese instruments to set off in terms of instrumentation, which is the most "ancient" song in this new album. The most ingenious thing is that in singing, Shen Yulun gave the work a kind of crazy obsession and sweetness, "Accompanying you is my long-cherished wish in this life, and my love for you has only increased unabated..." Those affectionate and intoxicating pictures that he fixed with his singing voice are like watching ancient court love dramas, which are very easy to be moved in those beautiful poems. The lyrics are also very graphic "Moon Wei Yang", the most impressive thing is that the lyrics part of the large description of "time", "falling dream season night", "autumn sun moon yellowing", "wind leisurely swaying", "dream broken moon wei yang"... Through a series of extremely poetic words, it slowly reflects the silence and loneliness after "forgetting each other in the rivers and lakes", especially when the horse's head piano sounds at the end of the song, it will make people be shocked by the "clear body" sung in the song.
Regarding the state of "knowing one body", the third part of "Shen/Vision", Shen Yulun also tried to make a more realistic interpretation through four works. For example, the partial and static "Your Wedding", with a diary-style indifferent meaning, slowly uses singing to tell the story of a person practicing a person, "the habit of not being able to quit is your company..." But in terms of interpretation, it does not freeze the emotion in a hysterical state, and from its voice with a faint sadness and warmth, it will make people find the beauty of "love to the end and learn to let go". The most tear-inducing "Good Night", I believe that with the sound of the piano, his voice with a slightly depressive color, very extreme singing of people in the face of loneliness in the face of the most helpless, anxious and uneasy psychological state. And Shen Yulun personally participated in the lyrics of the "Ambiguous Game", he was confused, jumping electronic melody, to the "clear body" gave the most naughty, the most dashing definition, as he wrote in one of the sentences, "his ambiguous game I am not absent Quickly praise me naughty ..." The "Color" that appears at the end of the article gives this part a very good metaphor, "Clear body" can also be another kind of colorful!
As a singer, Shen Yulun can not only sing very accurately to pinch out the emotions and tones expressed in every lyric and every context; he is good at text creation, and his rationality of thinking about words has also become the most intriguing place in the current "Shen/Vision". In addition to finding a long-lost touch and resonance in this album with diverse styles and novel styles, it will also make people have a deeper reflection on living in the present. As shown in the "Color" sung at the end, in the rhythmic and dynamic style, through his slightly playful interpretation, it presents an encouragement and motivation to live in the present, and it also becomes his good wishes to all listeners with his singing voice - "May the years be gone, and the rest be happy!" (Text/Blue Butterfly)