I listened to a relatively niche unpopular disc today, and it is also a completely instrumental compilation album. The album is called "Guitar Calling", which is a project with a very distinctive concept of planning. The project
is composed of nine guitarists from Hong Kong, China, each selected their favorite music adaptations, and finally presented a compilation composed of eight works (one of which was completed by two guitarists).
I remember that in September last year, I posted a video about Liu Yida on Weibo. The BGM in the video was the work "Assassin" which he re-adapted at that time. He also recalled the creation of "Assassin" for the principal. And the story of the two songs "The First Tear".
liked the very dark guitar version of "Assassin" at the time, and then discovered that the recorded version of this song actually came from the "Guitar Calling" compilation. In the awe of the guitarist, the musical profession, and the long-standing love of the guitar, such a record, of course, must be collected.
There are nine guitarists on this record. There are seniors and newcomers. Before listening to this record, someone can fully understand these nine guitarists. That possibility is not high. Because even the well-informed teacher Ai is very new to one of the guitarists.
Among them, the old fans are most familiar with Tommy Chan and Liu Yida. These two people are the representative musicians of the late Hong Kong music folder Band era. Of course, what Liu Yida is better known for is his identity as a member of the "Anonymous Faction". This identity also allows him to become a musician between the front and back of the scene. It does not prevent him from being famous for his works, but also makes his face. ——Also out of the circle.
In my impression, Liu Yida has never been regarded as the kind of guitarist with very outstanding skills. Whether it is fast playing, the choice of timbre diversity, and the crossover of multiple genres, he can even be in the Hong Kong music circle. It is not a guitarist who can be qualified as a professional guitarist, or a shed-worm guitarist.
However, Liu Yida’s music recognition is too high. His melody is always full of mystery, exoticism, and all kinds of imagination. Although it is easy to recognize, others really imitate it. Not coming.
This is a bit similar to Kurt Cobain, who is always on the charts of various guitar masters. Indeed, from a technical point of view, Kurt Cobain does have a gap with those masters who take only a few minutes to solo, let alone those who can span jazz and rock and guitar masters. However, Kurt Cobain's guitar has its own original sense of language and style. This is truly the only one, no other branch. Yes, they are all imitating him.
Liu Yida's re-adapted "Assassin", added a very dark Bass-Line substrate, there is a strong Garage element, the rhythm even brings a little Trap element. According to Liu Yida's introduction at the time, the recording of this work was done by two guitars. Gibson's 10,000-year-old best-selling Les Paul is used to play the main melody, while another Fender Strat is used to play the rhythm part. However, because there is no string change, the sound is a bit fuzzy.
Compared with Liu Yida, Tommy Chan may be a recognized guitarist in the circle, and even Tommy's ability has been recognized by his counterparts in mainland China. For many years in the recording of " I am a singer " and other programs, sometimes in some guitar solo scenes that need to be "cool", the program team will always specially arrange this long scroller, blackGuitarist in sunglasses on stage. After all, as soon as Mr. Tommy comes on stage, he will give people a sense of sight as a guitar hero in the 1980s, which can make people think of him as a Rocker and a Guitarist.
Anyway, for those who love music, Mr. Tommy is not only a barber, but also represents guitar teacher Tommy Chan.
This time I saw the inside page introduction of the compilation album. It is the first time I know that Tommy Chan is also a standard second-generation musician from a music family.
Tommy’s father is Frederick, who used to be the drummer of Teddy Robin & The Playboys. Teddy Robin is the Teddy Robin that spanned the music and film circles of Hong Kong in the 1970s and 1980s. His "Playboy" band and Xu Guanjie and 's "Lotus" band are also the two most successful bands in the band era.
Tommy chose "Enter the Dragon" on the album. The original song was composed by Lalo Schifrin. Although it is the only song written by a Western musician on the record, this original song is actually from Bruce Lee's movie "Dragon Fighting Tiger Fighting". "The theme song of "originally had certain oriental elements.
Tommy's re-arrangement, fusion of the 1970s and 1980s, Funk-style rhythm, plus the typical metal music guitar Riff and Solo, the overall majestic, vigorous, fluent and flowing, all in one go. Listen, it is indeed the taste of the 1980s or the early 1980s.
Barry Chung is also a very experienced guitarist, but not many people may know him. This time he chose "Long Hair" which he once created for Ekin Cheng .
"Long Hair" is a technical work. In it, Barry Chung chose three basses, four guitars, two mandols and a ukulele , and even some ethnic groups. Percussion instrument. Therefore, plucked instruments of different timbre often appear alternately. But personally, it is precisely because of this kind of treatment that some of the melody's continuity is fragmented, and in the connection, there will be a sense of breakage due to the difference in timbre. Some are too complicated to play.
This Barry Chung, I knew him for the first time, it was in Luo Dayou's "Love Song 2000" album, when he participated in the harmony of the two songs "Dongfeng" and "Love Song 2000". After that, he and Chen Weiwen co-arranged "You Like Not As I Like", because it is the work of Faye Wong , and it has a great spread.
and Barry Chung’s most famous personal works, including the OST of "Isabella", which has won the 56th Berlin Film Festival " Silver Bear Award -Best Film Music Award" soundtrack , The guitars are all played by Barry Chung.
bid farewell to the playing time of the first three predecessors, and then began to enter a new era.
"Uninhibited Wind" selected by the guitarist Mike Orange of the band "Tactile Hair" is also the famous song of Leslie Cheung . The original piece was a Japanese song, and Mike used a retro way to remove the previous Leslie Cheung. The more mainstream version of the synthesizer arranger sound is back to the clean but equally passionate temperament of Japanese rock in the 1980s. And, although some new ones have been addedHarmony, but in the main melody, Mike's handling is done in one go, hearty and sharp, and it sounds very simple and fun.
Goro Wong, as the guitarist of the Zarahn band, also became the producer of "Zhang's Love Song" with Zhou Guoxian . This time he also re-selected the adaptation of this song. Compared with Eason's more folk style, this version incorporates many new elements, and even the rhythm of dance music. However, on the whole, after listening to this work several times, I am not too impressed.
Cui Zhanhong's " paintings ", selected works by Wang Wanzhi. Even if Cui Zhanhong is a guitarist I didn't know much about before, it is said that he has always been in the fever and jazz world. The arrangement of this song has a strong sense of hierarchy, and the chorus part even makes the guitar distorted, which sounds like a string. The impromptu treatment in the second half is technically complex, but it can reflect that kind of particularly delicate little emotions, and it reflects the "painting" emotions and scenes in a very hierarchical manner.
"Autumn Red" Andrew Cheung uses a subversive Metal style to adapt Eason Chan's classic "White Rose". Playing with a seven-string guitar adds more harmony and accents to the original melody, and it sounds like the original song is completely gone. Personally, while highlighting the technology, this work lacks a blank space for Hook, that is, after listening, there is still the feeling of a few measures of melody reverberating in my mind.
"Dancing in the Desolation" is played by Jeff from Dusty Bottle and Tianheng from One Promise. The original work Lu Kaitong was once a member of Brave Nusic, so it can be regarded as their sister.
This should also be the two youngest guitarists on the album. It sounds like the framework of the specific genre does not restrict the two guitarists' arranging imagination. The whole work has a multi-layered sense of picture, especially even one of the guitars, which often retains the sense of position of the human voice, just like Lu Kaitong standing there singing. pretty good. At the end of the inner page of the album
, Ellen Loo is also mentioned, that is, Lu Kaitong. Indeed, if there is no accidental death, Lu Kaitong should also appear in this album. Of course, as a person who knows Hong Kong music well, he may still feel a bit regretful about this album. For example, Deng Jianming, Su Dehua, and the newer generation of Gu Ruining , etc...
There are always some regrets in life. . But you must always remember, the beauty that remains, and more.
