Beijing Evening News·Wusetu | Author Kuang Xiaoyu (musician)
html On May 23, my shoulder was strained inexplicably and I had to rest for two days before it would feel better. After dinner, I clear the table, put away the clothes, hang them, fold them, and settle down comfortably in front of my desk. I want to check the computer and go to bed early. Lying down will not hurt so much. I turned on the computer and saw a message from a friend: " Chongqing passed away today, and the circle of friends was flooded!"My heart was hit with an exclamation mark!
was searching for news, and an old friend from Chengdu also sent a WeChat message: "Chenqing is gone."
"I just heard about it too. Suddenly there was silence." I said.
felt my shoulders and could still play the piano. Since I can still play the piano, I thought that I would have to go back to Jianghu tomorrow night to sing Chong Qing’s songs.
Chongqing
No one has sung those songs for a long time. They were silent in the youth memories of that generation. Nowadays, the people who wrote the songs have traveled far away. People like me who can still sing these songs have a way of bringing them back again. The consciousness of singing it again. I still remember the songs, and I can sing them when I pick up the piano. "Every word and every sentence is still familiar." When these melodies and lyrics that have not been sung for many years flow out on my own strings again, time becomes extremely warm. The past is like a dream, but fortunately these people and songs have accompanied me.
In 1994, I was studying in college in Chongqing. On that drizzling late spring afternoon, I walked out of campus and went to the only video store on Beibei Street. Through the glass cabinet, I saw the tape with "Campus Ballad 1" written on it. Different from the surging Beijing rock music at that time, this tape showed a gentle but high-end temperament. It was this tape that started the era of campus ballads in mainland China. This era did not last long, and was melted away by commercial operations in three to five years. However, how can the word "meaning" be measured and evaluated using only human time? To this day, we still see non-malicious but absolutely biased comments about campus folk songs from time to time. People who don't sing well or play the piano well don't need that elegant beauty.
This tape contains two works by Shen Qing, one of which is of course "Youth" which later became his trademark, and the other is his lyric " Loneliness is because I miss someone ". I have always wanted to hear his or composer Lu Xuejun 's interpretation. Now that Shen Qing has passed away, I wonder if I will have the chance to hear Lu Xuejun's version. In fact, not many of their group were still engaged in music. After "Campus Ballads 1", "Campus Ballads 2" and "Campus Ballads 3" were successively released. When more and more professional singers replaced the author's voice, the era of campus ballads went away like catkins blown by the wind. "Campus Ballads 2" contains three of Shen Qing's works: "The Past Comes Again", "The Last" and " No Ideas ", but they are no longer Shen Qing's own interpretations. "Campus Ballad 3" has a completely different set of authors, which is not worth mentioning. For the folk music genre, the author's voice and his lyrics and music are actually a whole. Because the essence of folk songs is not the so-called professionalism. For a long time, we have been accustomed to writing lyrics, composing music, and singing. It seems that these three have too high professional requirements for one person to have them at the same time. . But the essence of folk songs is exactly the opposite. It comes from ordinary people like you and me. The only difference is that these ordinary people want to express themselves through singing. The essence of a ballad actually lies in the author. The absence of the author makes the song become a sheet of music, just like the three souls and seven souls are no longer complete.
"Campus Folk Songs"
I sang one song after another, restoring the memory of lyrics, music and chords, and the room echoed with those sounds that seemed to have been lost. This heart is silent, sing with a silent heart, no matter how high the tone is, I will become lonely and silent.The melody of "No Idea" is still as catchy as it was twenty-eight years ago. I once learned another use of the sophomore chord in this song; when singing "The Last", I still think of the gift I gave to me when I graduated. The sunshine when girls get home and get in the car; singing "Years" reminds me of that friend who loves to walk and play the guitar. When he escaped from the water many years ago, he didn't know that the author of this song would also die a few years later. Go; "Farewell Song" evokes the rush memory of singing along the street in 1998; of course there is also my favorite "Grooming in the Mirror". At the riverside the next day, I finally sang my best version.
html For more than 0 years, I still search and follow news about Chong Qing from time to time. I know that he is still writing songs. The last search was not long ago, because my "Poetry Fragments" album included Su Dongpo 's " Ding Feng Bo·Don't Listen to the Sound of the Leaves Beating Through the Forest ", and I wanted to hear what it sounded like when someone else composed this poem. The result Searched for Chongqing. He is currently working on the musical "Su Dongpo". In the song "定风波", his treatment of the original sequence is a very good idea. On the evening of May 24, I found out that a friend of mine had already made an appointment to go to Chongqing. When he came to Guangzhou, he would definitely take him to Jianghu. I once thought about us singing each other's "Ding Feng Bo", but it seems that there is no chance. People who are famous for their music deserve to listen to the music and go away! (Editor: Sun Xiaoning)
