Hong Kong, bands, when these two words are combined, many heavyweight names come to mind - beyond, grasshopper, Wen Na...
It is undeniable that despite the glorious history, with the rise of mainland music, we have gradually paid less attention to the band culture in Hong Kong.
Beyond the eyes of many people, this soil that has bred countless legends of music history still produces many high-quality bands, the representative of which is one of the most important orchestras in Hong Kong today - supper moment dinner moment.
The latest album of DinnerTime, "Everything is You Everything Is You", was released in the mainland today and officially opened pre-sale!
Hong Kong Hits "Dinner Moment"
The name "Dinner Moment" comes from the attitude of the band members towards "dinner". No matter how busy everyone's life is, the time to go home and have dinner with their families after work is often the most heartfelt time of the day, but how many people have cherished every day's dinner time with their families?
Feelings are not only love, but also family affection, friendship, just like the name of the orchestra, they hope to let everyone carefully taste all the emotions around them with music, so that life can add warm feelings again.
Super Moment, which became an army in Hong Kong in 2006, started out as a group of four good friends who loved to play the group to compose their favorite music. The orchestra includes lead singer & guitarist Chen Shishen Sunnynny, guitarist Leung Yiu Peng Martin, bass guitarist Zhang Zuguangck, and drummer Chen Hongda Hugh.
It wasn't until 2010 that they met their own Bole, and the agent set up the RedLine Music Record Company for them, officially debuted, and released the first ep "Wait..."
"Dinner Moment" has touched the hearts of many people with its energetic and infectious live performances, warm and enthusiastic singing, and positive lyrics; since its debut, it has launched many popular songs, including "The Last Supper", "The Young Man", "Endless", "Song of Happiness" and so on, which are widely loved and welcomed by music fans.
At the same time, they have also won a number of professional awards: in 2015 and 2017, they won the Gold Award for Professional Recommendation of The Ten And the Group of The Greatest, and for four consecutive years they won the My Favorite Group Award voted by the audience, and in 2018, they won the Global Chinese Supreme Golden Melody Award for the top ten golden songs of the Chinese, making it one of the most important orchestras in Hong Kong today.
Philosopher's Album "Everything is You"
"Everything is you", this is an open-ended question.
The Supper Moment argues that the world is influencing us to conceive different values, and then our lives continue to construct the trajectory of the world. Like a closed cycle of mutual influence, the accumulation of each angle and choice echoes our experience and values.
Your feelings and perceptions are fulfilled by the endowment of various meanings and the interpretation of angles. Everything is you, everything is you and everything depends on you. How to face everything we see, how to live in this world, the key may be in our hands.
DinnerTime "Everything Is You" contains a total of 13 songs. This is an album born from love and hate, some songs are gratitude; some are lonely; some are unwilling.
From concept conception, music creation, arrangement, recording, mixing to the shooting of mv and the preparation of the online concert of the new album, it took almost a year to hatch this multi-angle musical work.
In addition to continuing to supervise with Albert and Matthew Sim in charge of mixing, the production team also joined the well-known Hong Kong label Greytone's j1m3, Nick Wong Wong and saxophonist Timothy Sun to participate in some of the arrangements and orchestral writing and performance, injecting new elements into the album.
At dinnertime, six friends from the music circle were also recruited to form a choir to be responsible for the chorus of some of the songs. They are singing teacher Benny King, Harmony Coey Young, jan curious, joyce Zheng Xinyi, fabel member Lu Zhujun and singer-songwriter Wu Linfeng.
In addition, the breakthrough of "Everything is You" is not only music. This dinner time specially invited famous lyricists Ge Dawei and Huang Junlang to compose Chinese lyrics for them, which was the first time that Supper Moment had cooperated with other lyricists since his debut, and the two lyricists also accurately grasped the essence of the original lyrics.
This time, the physical album of "Everything is You" is from the cover to the inner page, and the paintings in it are all written by young artist Manny Yip. She created 11 paintings behind each song and combined them into a larger painting that would serve as the album cover.
Through the abstract painting style, the thick pigment texture and brush strokes, and the fingers of different sizes looming on the cover, it is hoped to present the unique ideas and different values of each individual, and at the same time symbolize the various faces of people at different stages of life.
In this "Everything Is You", "Never Come Back" was the runner-up on the Music Pioneer Chart, and the Cantonese version of the album also won the first place in the Sound of Music Cantonese Song Chart with two songs, "Finally Not Coming Back" and "Yes i do".
With such painstaking treatment of every link of an album, the music of "DinnerTime" deserves to be listened to and touched, and they will continue to use their music to reinvent the glory of Hong Kong bands.