Beijing News (reporter Yang Chang) independent musician Zuo Xiaozu spell released a new album "GanluEr" on his birthday on March 4, and it was learned from the album trailer that "Ganlu" is the first of his newly created "Four Masterpieces" series of works. It is reported that the "Four Masterpieces" album is divided into four parts, consisting of 38 works, with a total length of about 190 minutes, the longest single is close to 19 minutes, and the shortest single is less than 30 seconds.
"Manna" released on March 4 contains 9 songs, and the longest "Story of Dog teeth" is nearly 11 and a half minutes long. Zuo Xiaozu said: "'Four Masterpieces' has been in preparation for 20 years, and it can be said that it is the most difficult and longest rock album in the world, dedicated to my initial listeners and readers. And laughed: "This is an album that surpasses all my previous works." The Beijing News reporter interviewed Zuo Xiaozu to reveal the creation of the "Four Masterpieces", it is reported that the last three "Immortals", "Mona Lisa" and "Jianghu" will be launched on March 14, 25 and April 4 respectively.
Courtesy of respondents
Beijing News: What do the four components of "Four Masterpieces" tell? How are they related?
Zuo Xiaozu Mantra: The Four Masterpieces are divided into "The Nectar", "Immortal Society", "Mona Lisa" and "Jianghu", which tells the strange events of a Mongol in Gannan, Southwest, Xinjiang, Tibet, Nepal and India. The first manna is about running away, motherhood and faith. The second book, The Society of the Immortals, deals with art and philosophy, and this one is the most obscure and the most difficult chapter to hear. The third Mona Lisa depicts love. The fourth part of "Jianghu" is a mixture of jianghu as the mainstay, the jianghu is the family, and the jianghu is also the world.
Beijing News: Twenty years ago, why did you want to create "Four Masterpieces"?
Zuo Xiaozu Curse: When the "Four Masterpieces" was first made, the album name was not called "The Four Masterpieces", because at that time, "Do You Know Which Side of the East" had not yet been released. "You Know Which Side of the East" was released in the spring of 2008, I wanted to be able to do the "Orient" in my hand, and it was difficult to complete "The Orient", from 1995 to 2007, it spanned 12 years, which was the integration of my feelings and senses. And "Four Masterpieces" was made from the end of the last century in 1999, when my physical strength and feelings were at the best stage of my life, and I didn't know when I made it, but I just hoped that it would be possible to surpass myself, I thought it was impossible to surpass the double album of the volume of "Do You Know Which Side of the East" was impossible, it was impossible, it was impossible, but as an artist, it was actually very important to be cool.
"Do You Know Which Side of the East" has passed for ten years, and to this day it has not been understood by the audience, it is still niche music, but it is undoubtedly a classic. "Do you know which side of the East" after the release of my personal music career to the peak of creation, life is like this, the ebb and flow, although in the past ten years I also released "Big Things", "Temple Fair Journey II" and other more than a dozen albums, but from an artistic point of view, not good, I am like a writer who keeps writing, painting, but never let me extremely excited, or lasting excitement, until last autumn and winter "Four Masterpieces" began to become more and more clear, "Four Masterpieces" is my best album, I am often happy to celebrate the opening of wine for myself, and now the amount of alcohol seems to be large. It's hard for a person to surpass his own peak, and that world record was set by himself, and that's a pit.
Cover of The Four Masterpieces. Courtesy of respondents
Beijing News: Why is the preparation time as long as 20 years? What was the hardest part of the prep process for you to overcome?
Zuo Xiaozu Mantra: The volume of three hours is too big, and it is also wonderful, not too easy to do. In fact, there is no preparation, where to go, aimless, aimless walking and walking will also come out of a system. In the past, almost all of my albums were thought of before they began, or at least a name was set first, not to tell you that this time the "Four Masterpieces" was not named until last year. I wrote a musical story with Mongolian protagonists, almost four records to put down, then called "Four Masterpieces", there is no traditional sense of that kind of relationship, I feel that these things are there and do not have to think hard.
Beijing News: Why do you think that some people do not believe that this "Four Masterpieces" will surpass all your previous works? What do you think you are transcendent? Is it meaningful to start releasing this album at this point in time?
Zuo Xiaozu Mantra: I say that transcendence is transcendence, and judgment is an extraordinary skill. Saying that there is any special significance, as if I am a bit of a rip-off, in an era of singles, the era of no new songs in the draft, Zuo Xiaozu's release of four albums of nearly 190 minutes is undoubtedly a fool, maybe I am too ridiculous, and I have a lot of time to do art when I am older.
Beijing News: "Manna" has Bao Luo joined the singing, so in the next "Four Masterpieces" launched, what Easter eggs (such as cooperation objects, etc.) can be predicted in advance?
Zuo Xiaozu Mantra: In addition to Bao Luo, she is the heroine of the "Four Masterpieces", and there is also the folk master Guo Yongzhang participating in the second "Immortal Society", this time Guo Yongzhang and my previous cooperation are very different, subversive. In addition, there is my old brother Lao Liu of the Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts, which is the most important, when the "Immortal Society" was released on March 14, his crazy man may be extremely excited, extremely excited, I have to avoid him, he may be excited to bite the flesh off my face, and my dog face will continue to mix.
Beijing News: Last year, a number of albums were released in a row, and at the beginning of this year, the "Four Masterpieces" was launched, what is the secret of such a high production?
Zuo Xiaozu Curse: Ah, in the 20 years since my debut, I have basically been releasing films every year, except for the first few years of shelling, and then I rolled up, like an egg casually "get out of the egg", love who is who, no tricks, I got up earlier than the farmer, slept like the old seafarer, and slept wherever I stayed. In fact, in addition to the art of that little thing or that little thing, as long as you keep digging to dig out the miracle, 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 on their own things like a fool.
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