On the evening of July 27, xu Wei came to the beautiful Kunming on the eighth stop of the "Endless Light" national tour. The countdown to the huge LED screen, the electronic beat of the prelude to "Only Love" sounded, the colorful wings spread out, and the Kunming Dianchi International Convention and Exhibition Center became an ocean of happiness in the music. "We want to make the tour a party for music friends, so that everyone can get together and enjoy the endless light that music and life bring us." Earlier, Xu Wei said in an interview with the media.
Li Yanliang unveils the "Endless Light" musical magic and strives for excellence in the smoothness of the performance
From the departure of Shenzhen in mid-May to the completion of the first half of the tour in Kunming at the end of July, although the location and venue conditions are different, the live atmosphere of the "Endless Light" tour is always warm and warm. The natural support of stage installations and multimedia is indispensable, and intimate sound design is also crucial, but in this grand party, music is the biggest theme and core, and the biggest magic. Before the performance in Kunming, we interviewed Li Yanliang, a musician who has worked with Xu Wei for many years and is also the music director of the tour, and asked him to unveil the mystery of the musical magic of "Endless Light" for us.
"In fact, the track arrangement of the tour began last year when the album "Endless Lights" was produced." Li Yanliang told us that when the album tracks were rehearsed, the arrangement of each instrument was looking for a sense of live playing. After entering the rehearsal work of the tour, Xu Wei and the "Blue Troupe" spent a lot of time arranging the selected concert alternative repertoire into several modules to design and produce with the choreography, lighting and multimedia. "The speed and tone of each song, we will put it in the concert re-arrangement to rehearse and consider, most of the tracks we hear on the spot have been repeatedly tried and fine-tuned behind the scenes, so that more than 20 songs in a concert are unified in the same atmosphere and situation, as smooth as a song."
The addition of Scottish hall-of-arms drummers brings endless possibilities for arranging rhythms
Li Yanliang admitted that the most difficult part of the repertoire of this tour is the rhythm part - in addition to a set of main drums, there is also a set of electric drums and a set of percussion, and the compilation of three drummers has almost no predecessors in China to learn from; Geoff, a hallowed drummer from Scotland, has made many contributions to the choreography of rhythmic parts. "He used a wealth of experience and artistic feeling to put forward a lot of good suggestions and possibilities for the arrangement of the rhythm part of each song, and Xu Wei and I only need to judge and determine." The three drummers blend very well, making the rhythm three-dimensional. “
Keep running in just for the fans to have fun Thank you music for bringing you and me together
At the end of each tour, Xu Wei and Li Yanliang will summarize and adjust the music according to the feedback from the fans: "We have been trying to adjust and change in order to make everyone on the scene enjoy the music more enjoyable. After three or four stops, we started to break the modular repertoire. The stage, lighting and multimedia teams were super powerful and provided us with very solid support for the adjustments, and the music became more and more free with each stop. ”
From the beginning of the "Endless Light" tour in May to the present, there are two moments that Li Yanliang will most forget: when "Joy" sounded at the Shanghai station, everyone in the audience seemed to open up their hearts in music, communicate with each other and nourish each other, which is a wonderful feeling that is difficult to describe in words; And in Chengdu station coincided with Xu Wei's birthday, from the beginning of the performance fans have been here to express their blessings one after another, before the "Xanadu" played, Li Yanliang was inspired, played a birthday song melody on the acoustic guitar, and the fans immediately brushed up with it and sang a birthday song for Xu Wei in unison - this moment, I believe everyone present will be unforgettable.
"Thanks to the music, Xu Wei used music to bring everyone together, and everyone found the feeling of home in the music. The tour has long since gotten better, and now every stop at Endless Lights makes me feel relaxed and enjoyed. Li Yanliang is like this, Xu Wei and the musicians of the "Blue Troupe" are like this, and every music friend standing here is even more so.