Chinanews.com, Beijing, March 8 (Reporter Ying Ni) Gong Linna's new album "The Myth of Mountains and Seas" was launched on the entire network on the 8th.
The album uses ten songs to depict a colorful world of myths. Gong Linna hopes to use music to tell ancient myths that everyone can understand.
Gong Linna and Lao Gong have gone through 18 years of creation together. In the album "The Myth of Mountains and Seas", Lao Gong continued to participate as a composer, while Gong Linna completed the transformation from singer to producer.
The album broke people’s previous imagination of music. The 10 songs are all in different styles, including the super high pitch technique of "The Phoenix Emperor", and the innovation of the atuned track of "Gourmet Roe Deer". "The Chaos of the Emperor River" is even a fairy tale. Version "Uneasy".
In other songs, in addition to challenging sound techniques, it also contains elements of world music.
In recent years, Gong Linna has been insisting on singing, creating and teaching related to traditional culture.
She became attached to mythology, starting from "The Golden Cudgel" to "Fa Hai You Don't Know Love", and received enthusiastic response from the audience.
The "Shan Hai Jing" is an important ancient book in China, and it is also the oldest book rich in myths and legends.
Mountains and rivers, geography, ethnicity, products, medicines, sacrifices, witch doctors are all among them.
It is Gong Linna's long-cherished wish to make music with the theme of "Shan Hai Jing".
Gong Linna emphasized that sound is like an energy field, attracting listeners into it.
In "Mythology of Mountains and Seas", which was prepared from 2018, each song has a super-difficult vocal technique, using different vocal techniques to express the personality characteristics and unique skills of different beasts.
For example, "Dijiang Chaos" is a rap style, "Fenghuang" adopts super high-pitched performance techniques, "Lu Wushen" uses a domineering drama, "Kuafu Chasing the Sun" combines an ethereal style with rock and roll singing, and "Gourmet" "Roe Deer" uses atonal sound fusion to show gluttonous greed and fragility, "Lovebirds" embodies a kind of poignancy and tenderness, "Xing Tian Wu Qian Qi" shows a kind of chivalrous spirit, "West Queen Mother" The large-span interval above ten degrees shows a kind of tolerance from life to death. "Creation Nuwa" uses a low vibrato to make people feel a kind of comfort like mother's love, and "One Arm Country" uses minimalism and simplicity. I told an interesting little story.
Each song is a complete little work, bringing people into a little story.
Gong Linna's singing focuses on two lines: one is "folk music", that is, folk songs and operas; the other is "literati music", that is, ancient poetry and songs. In recent years, she has also started to learn to play the guqin and sing piano songs.
From "vulgar music" such as folk music to "grace music" such as literati music, they are all the roots of Gong Linna.
But she found that this was not enough: "Chinese music should have a root, and that is the'myth.' Children all like Marvel and know Spider-Man, but do they know what Dijiang Chaos is and what Kuafu is? Many children I don’t know that there are countless sacred beasts in the "Shan Hai Jing"."
This time, Gong Linna’s "Mythology of Mountains and Seas" incorporates the original stories of ancient myths into music, revealing the mystery of the world of mountains and seas for modern people.
She believes that the views and works of many thinkers, philosophers and poets in China, as well as their imagination, are closely related to the "Shan Hai Jing".
So she wants to explore the root cause, and hopes that through the album "The Myth of Mountains and Seas", she will inspire everyone's attention and love for the myths in traditional Chinese culture.
It is reported that this time, the CD and vinyl limited-encoded physical album pre-sales will be opened simultaneously, exclusively released by Heyo Music.
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