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An hour and a half drive from downtown Hangzhou, Yun'an Town, surrounded by beautiful scenery with mountains and lakes, wan Xiaoli's new album "Libra Boat / Teeth, Spinach and Tofu and Poets, Tramps and Disciples" was held here.
This is Wan Xiaoli's second album since he moved to Hangzhou in 2014, Mr. Wan said: "Hangzhou's environment and humanistic atmosphere have given me a lot of space, moving is also to adjust the relationship between life and music, now both psychologically and physically adjusted are positive and healthy, from the density of album release can be seen, before it was four or five years to issue a card, now this album is only separated by two years." ”
Wan Xiaoli's friends in the folk music circle came to help, including Lao Wolf, Li Zhi, Ma Tiao, Song Dongye, Wan Fang, Xiao he, Yang Jiasong, Zhong Lifeng, Zhang Qi, Zhang Weiwei, Guo Long, Zhou Yunpeng and other half of the domestic folk music circle almost all came to the scene. The press conference lasted three hours, and the scene almost became a folk concert.
Wan Xiaoli sang six songs from the album on the spot, old friends also praised Wan Zong's album, Zhong Lifeng said at the press conference, "I am friends with Wan Xiaoli for 20 years, and now we have all the years, but his inner things are more youthful, in all his works can hear the possibility of facing the future, full of novelty, and even some fairy tale colors; his smile is still so shy, such a person can write good songs, His songs are the true essence of folk songs after a long journey back to basics. ”
In 1997, Wan Xiaoli quit his job and came to Beijing to start his bar residency, and this year has just passed 20 years. In 2002, after five years in Beijing, Wan Xiaoli was spotted by Shen Lihui in the modern sky and helped him record his first album "Walk Over" in a bar. Some people say that Wan Xiaoli is a creator of melodies, his melodies are intoxicating and unable to extricate themselves, and some of his songs can be passed down forever.
Four years later, his second album "It's Not As Bad as Imagined" seems to have pulled away from the earthly hustle and bustle of the first album, he is no longer the folk artist who drifted north, and "It's Not As Bad as Imagined" has been sung by everyone for ten years. Guo Long said: "If Wan Xiaoli has been singing the kind of songs from his first album, he may be more popular than Sun Nan today, but he constantly surpasses himself in music, the height of his music and the distance he has traveled is not easy, he is a real artist." ”
△ "It's not as bad as it seems" album cover
"All this is not as bad as imagined" should be the peak period of Wan Xiaoli, he is the old wolf's favorite singer, he has also become a "million fans" in the hearts of fans. And Wan Xiaoli's music will be different in each period, and he does not want to go down the road ahead all the time. In 2010, the third album "North of the North" made many former fans difficult to accept, but Wan Xiaoli said: "Don't call me a folk singer, I am an experimenter." But the industry's evaluation of "The North of the North" is extremely high, some music critics commented: This is as always Wan Xiaoli, the first and second albums have a lot of shadows of "North of the North", he brewed the bone-chilling cold wind of life into wine, and then drank the wine into water, burned the heart to his throat, be careful, calm down, you can hear.
Wan Xiaoli's fourth album "The Sun Looks Round" is after he settled in Hangzhou, he rented a village house at the foot of the mountain in Yuhang, climbed the mountain every day, ran and ran, and every time he met a squirrel, he was the happiest. Perhaps it is this simple life that makes the arrangement and playing of "The Sun Looks Round" more and more simple, and the lyrics have also given up the golden sentence of the transmission style, and even the external outline.
Fans commented that Wan Xiaoli's songs were different from most folk songs, and his songs did not use obvious intentions. Only a person who is not very ambitious can give up looking for the greatest resonance and only fully open his own perspective channel to the listener. Musician Chen Weilun once said: "China once had very good folk songs, and Wan Xiaoli is the best folk songs." ”
In this era, there are a number of hot young folk singers such as Zhao Lei, Zhao Zhao, Song Dongye, Ma Wei, Good Sister, Chen Grain, Cheng Bi, Chen Hongyu, etc., but Wan Xiaoli, the "old folk song", is particularly quiet, some young folk singers are on variety shows, some open stadium-level concerts, and some run music festivals... Many people have become popular stars; but Wan Xiaoli does not seem to like to catch up with such trends, he has been immersed in his own world, unwilling to say anything more, nor to market himself.
Such Wan Xiaoli seems to be somewhat incompatible with this booming era, when he participated in the music festival, many young audiences on the stage did not even know who Wan Xiaoli was, and when he sang, there would be audience members who left. The writer Yin Lichuan once understood Wan Xiaoli this way: "He has nothing to do with these disputes. He didn't understand how there could be so many people in the world who were overwhelmed or miserable for a little gain or loss. He finished singing his songs, put away his piano, got on his bicycle, and went back to his humble home alone, every night. ”
At yesterday's press conference, Wan Xiaoli, as the protagonist, was also reluctant to talk more, shy and shy, and only when singing could he see that he was expressing his true self. But everyone also seems to feel the change of Wan Zongyin, who came to Hangzhou for three years and released two albums, which is significantly faster than the rhythm of one album in his previous five years. He also stopped drinking, began to maintain his body, took the initiative to contact friends, and occasionally attended parties.
For the new album "Libra Boat / Teeth, Spinach and Tofu and Poets, Tramps and Disciples" he also held a large-scale launch party, gathering new and old friends from half of the folk circle. He stood on the stage and introduced the guests one by one, he said that the old wolf was a person who had the grace to him, and used the word "thanks" to express his gratitude to the old wolf; his feeling for Li Zhi was "very good temperament", which caused the audience to laugh. Wan Xiaoli also told a lot of stories between them. This is perhaps the most that Wan Xiaoli has said in public, and he himself seems to feel it: "I am not saying too much." Then he covered his face with his hands in embarrassment.
This is the most authentic Wan Xiaoli, and his reverence for music is also the most real.
(All live photos in this article: Kunphotography Studio)
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