女子国乐坊

    继成功打造出“女子十二乐坊”以后，广东杰盛唱片有限公司一直在酝酿一个新的计划。自“女子十二乐坊”日渐国际化后，国内对“女子十二乐坊”一直有一种“墙内开花墙外香”的遗憾。面对世界乐坛对中国民族音乐的关注，特别是全球华人对中国民族音乐的渴求，自 2003年开始，杰盛唱片就开始筹备这个新计划。公司高层走访了中央音乐学院、上海音乐学院、中国戏曲学院等国内近二十所音乐高校挑选人材，投资近百万元, 经过长达一年半时间的筹备，终于从各高校100多名器乐专业的高材生中经过严格考核、精心挑选出了13位音乐素养极高、外表清纯靓丽的清一色少女于组成一个新的乐队——女子国乐坊。中国古筝网
   
    女子国乐坊成立之初，为了弥补其他女子乐队在配器方面的单一性和局限性，杰盛唱片在全国各地寻找了许多最具中国特色的民族乐器，除了传统的二胡、笛子、琵琶、古筝、杨琴、葫芦丝等，还特别选用了三弦、京胡等，选配了四个青春活泼的超“酷”、超“炫”的女孩担任吉它、贝斯、架子鼓、键盘及合成器的伴奏；在选曲方面，公司摒弃了以往乐队的浮躁，组织了专门的专家小组从音乐风格、市场角度及世界各地全方位进行选曲，在采集到的136首曲目中，公司采取了“百花齐放、百家争鸣”的原则，聘请了中、日、美、韩等地的著名音乐制作人经过1年多月的艰苦创作，终于为乐队精心制作了12首最经典的现代民族音乐作品，音乐和录音是在我国目前设备最好的音乐工作室M2录音棚内完成的，担任此次录音制作的也是我国顶级的录音师张小安和张晓微。12首乐曲里，其中《梦幻》是根据近似莫扎特曲风的一首欧洲古典乐曲改编的，改编后的乐曲似仙乐梦幻一般；而《谢谢你》选自日本经典电视连续剧《血疑》的主题曲，改编后加入了中国民族音乐的元素更突显了其深沉的内涵；《一千零一夜》则是用中国的民族乐器叙述了一个古老的阿拉伯故事，月光女神萨拉布莱曼的成名之作，改编后的曲子感染力非凡；《月之光》是日本音乐大师喜多朗的作品，具有很浓郁东方色彩，用中国民族乐器演奏，更具东方神韵；《巴黎之夜》是法国家喻户晓的一首非常好听的乐曲，用中国民乐来诠释她，更是别具一格；《许多的赞美》是著名音乐大师雅尼代表作之一，他的音乐颇具东方色彩，用中国民乐演奏更接近他的主题；《星星索》是选自印尼的著名民歌，用中国的葫芦丝演奏此曲，突破了地域之限，突显了东方音乐的魅力；《小城故事》是一首中国很典型的民族现代音乐，此曲加入了一些爵士风格的元素，使该曲耳目一新；《咏叹调》选自欧洲著名的乐队“神秘园”代表作，结合了中国的民族乐器之后，更彰显了他的神秘，《京调》是经典的中国民歌，音乐家用现代的手法做了大胆的尝试，使乐曲充满了时代感，值得一提的是，在“女子国乐坊”的首张专辑里，音乐家们还首次做了大胆的尝试，第一次专门为中国的民族乐器三弦和京胡创作了《凌波仙子》、《北京故事》两首原创乐曲，乐曲中中国最古老的乐器与现代乐队的巧妙结合，珠联璧合，给古老的中国民族音乐注入了一股新鲜的活力。
   
    迷离的舞台，神秘的异乡国度，古色古香的民族乐器，一字排开的13个充满朝气的青春少女，在“女子国乐坊”MTV拍摄现场，大批的民乐“粉丝”们将整个舞台围堵得水泄不通。在琴音鼓韵中，少女们美妙的舞台语言，独特的艺术魅力，轻盈随意的舞步，还有琴弦间翻飞的指尖，扬头时的巧笑回眸，一举一足都似13个飘落人间的非凡精灵。在摄氏5度的气温中姑娘们穿着单薄的演出服，按照导演的要求一丝不苟地完成每首乐曲的拍摄，她们的敬业精神和激情四溢的奔放演出征服了所有现场的观众，每一次演奏雷鸣般的掌声总是经久不息，还有许多从外地赶来的乐迷们一直追随着自己的偶像直至拍摄完成到深夜2点仍不肯离去。
   
    “女子国乐坊”将日本、印尼、欧美等风格迥异的音乐作品糅合在一起，用中国传统的民族乐器来唱主角，西方的电声音乐做背景，没有交响乐的雄壮，却满是东方式的绮丽。从上半场黑白相间的演出服到下半场的中国旗袍，13个女孩在细节上彰显个人品位与风格。发式方面，或秀丽长发自然飘飘，或一头短发干净利落，或云卷舒缓；饰品方面，或在眉眼处提亮，或在玉指上点彩，或在手臂上彩金…..13个人有13种美，每一种美都那么精巧细致、巧夺天工，尽显时尚气息。她们的音乐也随人性，有舒缓，有起伏，有呼吸，有分享，有力量，有轻柔，有疯狂，有激情，有呻吟…13个音乐精灵，她们演绎的音乐缓缓抚慰着观众的心身，仿如扫拂掉了一切外界的声响，心中只剩下清纯至极的和声，一首首传统与现代，古典与民族，激情与沉静的结合传诵，宛若一道多情的溪水，惟美迷幻的琴曲，将观众带入盈泪动容的音乐世界，当幽深的乐音流逝，现场的观众仍沉醉其中，心绪难平。
 
 
 
 在中国传统民族音乐与现代音乐风格及多种艺术概念相结合的表演中，“女子国乐坊”的音乐如一缕清新的风吹拂了一池春水，使观众在既可以欣赏原声民族乐器的动听之处，也可以感受到它与现代电子音效相融合后的音乐。她们的音乐穿越了时空的遂道，既有后现代主义的抽象写意，又具梦幻般的唯美情致，并在舞台造型方面也给人耳目一新的视觉突破，在轻舞飞扬中把一幅流动的风景画呈现给了观众，入耳、入眼、入心。
    
    Introduction of Girl’s National Music Band
   
    After the success of “12 Girls Band”, Guangdong Jie Sheng Record Company is planning a new project. From the internationalization of the “12 Girls Band”, domestic China had a regret that 12 Girls Band is even more popular abroad. Facing the attention of Chinese folk music from the world music circle, especially the crave of Chinese folk music from global Chinese, Jie Sheng Record Company started to prepare this new project since 2003. The top management team of the company invested near one million yuan and spent one and a half year in selecting artists. They visited more than 20 music universities such as Central Conservatory of Music, Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and Academy of Chinese Traditional Opera etc. After the strict examination and professional selecting, 13 talented and beautiful girls were chosen to form a brand-new band—Girl’s National Music Band.
   
    At the beginning of the band’s establishment, in order to avoid simplicity and limitation in instrument disposing, Jie Sheng Record Company had searched around the country for many folk musical instruments which have distinct Chinese characteristic. Except for the traditional musical instruments such as erhu, flute, pipa, guzheng, yangqin, hulusi, they especially chose 3-stringed Chinese guitar and jinghu etc. Four young, beautiful and fashionable girls assumed the accompanied job of guitar, bass, shelf drum, keyboard and synthesizer. In the song selecting aspect, they quit the fickleness of the former band and formed a professional group to select songs according to the style of music, marketing considerations, and other global factors. At last, among all 136 songs, Jie Sheng Company chose the most classical 12 modern folk songs. Then the famous music producers from China, Japan, America and Korea paid great efforts and spent more than one year in editing these songs. Chinese top recording director Zhang Xiao’an and Zhang Xiaowei held the recording procedure in the M2 studio which has the best recording system in China.
   
    Among these 12 songs, “Fantasy” was adapted from an ancient European song of Mozart style, the adapted melody sounds like the melody from paradise. “Thank You” is the theme song of the Japanese classical TV series “The Blood Doubt”, the adapted version added Chinese folk music element in order to highlight its deep meaning. “One Thousand and One Nights” uses Chinese folk musical instruments to narrate an ancient Arab story, it is the masterpiece of Sarah Brightman. “The Light of The Moon” is the song of Japanese master Kitaro, which is full of oriental color. Using the Chinese folk musical instrument to perform made it more romantic and charming. “Night of Paris” is a French, well-known and pleasant melody. It has its own unique style when performed by Chinese folk musical instrument. “Many Praises” is one of the famous musician Yani’s masterpieces, expressed by the Chinese folk musical instrument made its theme more outstanding. “Sing Sing So” is the Indonesian folk song, performed by Chinese hulusi, broke the boundary limitation, revealed the oriental charm to the world. “Story of The Small Town” is a melody of typical Chinese modern folk style, added with jazz element made it fresh to our ears. “Aria” is the masterpiece from the famous European band “SecretGarden”, combined with Chinese folk music element, made it more mysterious. “Beijing Melody” is a classical Chinese folk song. Musician used modern technique to try boldly, made the song full of modern sense. It is worth to mention that in this album, musicians made a bold trial, wrote two songs ” Narcissus Beauty” and “Tale of Beijing” by using 3-stringed Chinese guitar and jinghu. In these two songs, the ancient Chinese musical instruments combined with modern band successfully and made a perfect match, injected a new and fresh vigor into the old Chinese folk music.
   
    On the misted stage, mysterious and strange country, the antique national folk musical instrument, 13 young and vigorous girls stood in a row. While shooting the MTV of Girl’s National Music Band, a lot of folk music fans came and crowded the stage. With the melodious music, beautiful stage language of the young girls, unique artistic charm, graceful dance step, skillful performance and their sweet smile, these 13 girls just like 13 fairies descending slowly and lightly into the human world. On the MTV making day, the temperature was only 5 degree centigrade, but the girls still wore thin clothes and performed strictly to what the director required. Their professional dedication and splendid performance conquered all the audience, every time they finished their performance, applause always lasted for a very long time. Many fans from other places followed their idols till the finish of MTV making at 2am in the midnight, and they were still unwilling to go back.
   
    Girl’s National Band combined different music style like Japan, Indonesia, Europe, and America together, used the traditional Chinese folk musical instrument as the main actor and the western electronic music as the background. It is not as grand as the symphony, but full of oriental grace. From the black and white performance clothes in the first half, to the second half of traditional Chinese cheongsam, 13 girls showed their own characteristic and style in every detail. They have different hair style-long or short, straight and curled, different unique ornament and make-up, all these made them exquisite, excellent and fashionable. Their charming music is also closed to human nature, cozy, undulate, breathing, sharing, strong, soft, crazy, passionate and groan…13 music spirits, their performance comforted the body and soul of the audience, as swept all the external sound, only the pure harmony sound left in the audience’s hearts. The combined melody of the of traditional and modern, classical and folk, passionate and calm, just like the amorous stream, flowed into the audience’s ear, heart and soul, brought them into another dulcet music world. Until the music stopped, the audience got drunk in it and hard to calm down.
   
    In the performance that Chinese traditional national music combines with different contemporary music style and many other artistic concepts, Girl’s National Music Band made it possible that the audience can appreciate the touching melody of the original folk musical instrument as well as its combination to the modern electronic effect. Their music passed through the time and space channel, have both the abstract and pleasant of Postmodernism, and the beauty of fantasy. Besides, the tableaux also gave the audience a new and fresh visional feeling, presented a floating landscape picture to all the audience, pleasant to their ears, eyes, hearts and souls.