Guo Long
Since 2000, he has been engaged in music work in Beijing, and has participated in the folk period of the Kazakh legend band "IZ", the avant-garde rock band "Beautiful Pharmacy", "Wild Children Band" as a percussion drummer, and has also cooperated with Xiaohe, Wan Xiaoli, Zuo Xiao Curse and other musicians.
From 2008 to 2011, he participated in the soundtrack and live performance of "Rhinoceros in Love" and "Love of Three Oranges" directed by Meng Jinghui of the National Theatre of China.
In 2005, he co-formed the duo zhang weiwei and Guo Long with folk singer Zhang Weiwei, and published two albums, "You Wait for Me to Come Back" (2008) and "Silver Hotel" (2011).
To nag the story of Brother Long, it is necessary to mention Zhang Weiwei, who grew up together.
When she was young, Zhang Weiwei sang in a restaurant in Guangzhou, and the boss said it was very interesting, but the guests said that they were afraid of you singing.
So, Brother Long and Zhang Weiwei stood in the tunnels of Guangzhou, the two northwestern Hanzi began to sing rock and roll, and the big guys in the tunnels in the 90s seemed to have lost (mistakenly).
In the following years, they were in the northwest with Beijing.
Time entered the millennium, Zhang Weiwei and Guo Long joined Zhang Qi and Xiao Suo's wild children's band, joining a band they had particularly liked since the 1990s.
In 2018, Xiaohe, Wan Xiaoli, Zhang Weiwei, Guo Long, Anna Isa Martin formed "River Band" and released their first album, which was sung by Chinese, French and other languages.
*Photo: Li Yan
In July 2020, in the height of summer, the doors of theaters around the world remained closed, but at this moment, a group of theater people and musicians had begun their own creative action. The song ,"Rice Shop," which has been hailed as a classic by countless folk music lovers, rings out every afternoon at a rehearsal hall in Beijing's Nafu Hutong. This is the rehearsal scene of Yanghua Drama's 2020 new musical drama "Wandering Song" River Band (hereinafter referred to as "Wandering Song"), Anna, Xiaohe, Wan Xiaoli, Zhang Weiwei, Guo Long, this group of old friends may not have expected that the first time they met in 2020 was to co-create a stage play after the epidemic.
As early as a year ago, the repertoire began to be created. As an actor who has starred in many Yanghua drama works such as "New Wilderness", "Jewish City", "Dream like a Dream", "Beijinger", etc., the first self-written and self-directed stage work, in "Wandering Song", he sketched a fantasy story that occurred in the future world: when the glacier melted, the sea level rose, and the land became an isolated island, surrounded by the wandering girl "An" (Anna) and the "Wind Island" (Wan Xiaoli), the "Rain Island" (Zhang Weiwei, Guo Long), and the "Sand Island" (Xiaohe) met. The story of different experiences on the three islands is the main line, and after understanding their respective difficulties, they jointly find the other side of hope.
*Photo: Wang Xiang