On January 27, the annual top folk concert Southern Music Festival Lingnan New Folk Singing Tour was held at the Guangzhou Central Station Exhibition Center. For the first time, 20 groups of musicians will gather offline to sing 20 original Lingnan new folk songs.
In the fierce ticket grabbing session, many fans signed up to grab tickets for Chang Shilei. Today Chang Shilei has arrived in Guangzhou.
As one of the ten invited works for the Lingnan New Folk Song Activity, Chang Shilei's "Drunken Lingnan with Flowers" uses Mandarin + Cantonese to interpret the flowers of Lingnan. When this song was released, it received a high number of likes and collections.
Some netizens commented on Weibo that they could smell the fragrance of Lingnan flowers while listening to this song.
The well-known blogger @ Erdi once described Chang Shilei as a genius with both innate understanding and acquired training. "Drunken Lingnan" is a creation with Chang Shilei's style.
When I think of Chang Shilei, I think of an all-around musician who sings + lyrics + music + arranges.
He participated in the creation of the Beijing Olympic Games theme song "You and Me".
He won two awards for Best Arranger and Best Producer at the 24th Golden Melody Awards for his album "Gaia" composed for Lin Yilian.
He is the music madman who created "Itch" and "High Song" for Huang Ling and "Love Can Fly" for Yuan Yawei.
Friends who like to watch audio variety shows are familiar with Chang Shilei. He always shows off his talents, is good at adapting, and has strong control over his voice.
At the "Bay Area Rising Moon" 2021 Greater Bay Area Mid-Autumn Festival Movie Music Gala, Faye Wong sang a Cantonese song for the first time in many years. The song "The Bay" was composed by Chang Shilei and is a "love letter" to the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. ".
It is also because of the song "Wan" that many people know that Chang Shilei is a "Guangzhou boy".
Chang Shilei's parents are from the Northeast. Cantonese is not his native language, but he learned some Cantonese under the influence of his classmates.
Chang Shilei studied in Huayang Primary School in Tianhe District, Guangzhou. After graduation, he studied at the Middle School Affiliated to the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, which offers composition majors. In 1999, he was admitted to the Electronic Composition major of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and graduated from the Music Engineering Department of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.
After he decided to accept the invitation to compose the semi-titled "Lingnan New Folk Song", the various Lingnan tunes he heard while growing up in Guangzhou became his source of inspiration.
Chang Shilei’s daily creations are all based on intuition and experience.
's creation this time was based on the idea of "words first". He considered it several times and finally decided to solve the problem with "flower". The lyrics of
quickly describe the rich colors of Lingnan flowers: " The fiery red clouds of kapok are carried, the hornbeams are gathering firewood to welcome the good luck, the cinnamon nine-mile lotus is at ease, the purple spirit is high and the fragrance of the river is embraced. " is full of vitality, and you can swim freely.
combined the already created Mandarin melody and then used Cantonese lyrics to create a new paragraph, thus creating a colorful touch of Cantonese singing: "Flowers gather tens of thousands of miles apart to complete my Lingnan, and the drunk will drink dry" Thousands of cups, let's chase dreams hand in hand." The biggest surprise in
's creation was that Chang Shilei "increased" himself and created a Cantonese singing section. He felt that "only then can he be at ease and experience this creation completely."
Melody is his strongest point. One of Chang Shilei's creative characteristics is very musical, and his arrangements are extremely creative and layered. In "Flowers in Lingnan", you can hear the wonderful combination of electric guitar, acoustic guitar and string music.
"Drunken Lingnan" played, and the DNA of Cantonese people moved.
There is a hot discussion on the Internet. Every place should film a drama depicting the struggle history of a generation in this city. Wong Kar-wai filmed the Shanghai story "Flowers". If the Guangzhou version of "Flowers" was filmed, how would it be filmed?
If a "Flowers" film is made in Guangzhou, the nominated song "Flowers in Lingnan" can be included in the OST. From the flowers in full bloom, stretching for thousands of miles, praising the four seasons, it forms its own scenery and embodies the beautiful wishes of the people of Lingnan for life.
"Drunk by Flowers in Lingnan" is Chang Shilei's affectionate confession of the place where he grew up.
Chang Shilei is very serious about music. In an interview, he said that music does not let him go every day and he likes to stay alone in his room to create.
When asked how Lingnan new folk songs should continue to innovate and be sung, Chang Shilei’s answer was very relaxed: “Writing is always new, and if it sounds good, it will be sung."
We are looking forward to the premiere of "Flowers in Lingnan" at the Southern Music Festival Lingnan New Folk Singing Tour tomorrow.
The Lingnan New Folk Singing Project is an annual large-scale music project organized by Southern Metropolis Daily and n Video Planning and hosted by Nandu Entertainment. It was officially launched on September 8, 2023, with "folk music" as the form, "new" as the soul, and "Lingnan" as the theme of expression. In the past four months, a launch press conference, targeted invitations, social collections, A series of activities such as university promotions and offline flash mobs are aimed at fully tapping the power of original musicians in Lingnan and even across the country, creating a batch of high-quality Lingnan new folk original songs, and striving to shape a new IP for literary and artistic activities in the Bay Area.
is currently , the event has released two music albums with a total of 20 original songs, which were officially launched on Southern Metropolis Daily, n Video, Nandu Entertainment's new media matrix and qq music platform.
"Lingnan New Folk Songs (2023 First Edition)" has gathered experience The 10 winning songs selected by professional judges through multiple rounds of rigorous selection from 1,051 social collection works jointly show the colorful and long-lasting Lingnan culture and life interest.
"Lingnan New Folk Songs (2023 Second Series)" Invitation It has been created with 10 groups of well-known musicians, including well-known old musicians and backbone figures in the Chinese music scene, as well as new-generation folk songs that have been popular among young people in recent years, as well as musicians and bands who have been deeply involved in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area for many years. . The 10 songs range from seasonal scenery to urban fireworks, from individual memories to humanistic feelings, presenting the myriad aspects of Lingnan.
Guidance unit: Southern Newspaper Media Group Guangdong Federation of Literary and Art Circles
Sponsor: Southern Metropolis Newspaper n Video
Organizer: Guangdong Nandu Entertainment Media Co., Ltd.
Co-organizer: Guangdong Provincial Popular Music Association, Guangdong Provincial Folk Literature and Artists Association, Guangdong Provincial Performance Industry Association, Guangdong Radio and Television Station, Sound of Music Xinghai Concert Hall, Taihe Music Group and other supporting units : Sun Yat-sen University, South China University of Technology, Jinan University, South China Agricultural University, South China Normal University, Guangzhou University, Shenzhen University, Xinghai Conservatory of Music, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangdong Provincial Institute of Art, Guangdong Provincial Musicians Association, Modern Sky Grass Terrace, Echo, Beautiful Southern Star, Extraterrestrial Music, Topi Music Label Central Station Rockhouse, Light and Sound Space Republic Livehouse, Space Livehouse, Mao Livehouse, 191space Livehouse, Kuaishou Bilibili, Xiaohongshu, etc.
