Chapter 28: Romeo and Juliet
As soon as the guitar sounded, the air in the tavern became cool.
"Oh......" Lao Liu exclaimed.
What a mysterious experience.
Fast and dense notes jump, forming an intricate ascending melody that constantly changes, wraps, and unfolds as if endless.
Gradually, the shape of the rhythm appeared, and the notes were divided into strong and weak, and slowly turned into a gorgeous staircase. The staircase began to rotate, turning into a complex pattern, changing and changing.
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In some novels, when music plays, images emerge in front of people's eyes: the vast late autumn grassland, the colorful kites of childhood, the sad birch forest...... It's all.
Sound is more advanced and abstract than images, and when listening to music, the human brain does not think about pictures at all, too lazy to think about them.
There are also some books that say that what is the meaning of this piece of music, what ideas it represents, and it is basically nonsense.
What is the point of music wood, no.
Music is an "experience", not an "understanding".
The nameless tavern is small, with more than 80 people huddled together, and one gorgeous melody after another floats by, and people ...... Well, nothing came out.
In the darkness, people came to another world.
There is no color here, and there is also a shape of wood, only an infinitely strange atmosphere. It's like a pre-Genesis, lost, note-constructed world.
The tavern is gone. The strings of the guitar tremble, and the jumping notes flicker.
The sky spreads out like a canvas.
It's not a visual sky, the vision is too slow, too complex and too concrete, and there is no need for vision. A musically constructed sky that exists only in nothingness unfolds directly in your mind. The notes are dotted with stars, colorful and colorful, forming a huge burning constellation, waiting to be recognized.
This is thanks to the good acoustics of the nameless tavern. Before, in the pedestrian street, in the open space, it was impossible for Fang Yan to pop up this effect.
Fang Yan leaned close to the microphone and said, "This song is called "Romeo and Juliet". ”
His words were soft, but they woke people up. The strange feeling disappeared, and everyone was a little reluctant, so they followed the rhythm and breathed slowly.
When music is added with language, it becomes a song, it has content, it has meaning, it becomes something else.
Fang Yan sang in English: "Romeo who fell in love, sang street serenades......"
Romeo and Juliet is Shakespeare's famous play, with many climaxes and conflicts, which are both amusing and moving. Since then, Romeo and Juliet have also become synonymous with love.
But although this song is also called "Romeo and Juliet", the story is completely different.
In the middle of the night, in a run-down alley in London, Romeo wanders alone. He slipped under Juliet's balcony and stood by the street lamp, singing softly a little love song he had written.
Juliet heard the singing, poked her head out of the balcony, and said with an unhappy expression, "Romeo, what are you doing, you are about to scare me out of my heart attack." My boyfriend is coming back soon, how can you just sing downstairs in someone else's house? Besides, we've broken up, what else do you want to do?"
Juliet abandons Romeo, and he suffers.
He is deeply in love with Juliet and gives everything for his lover, but as a result, Juliet is obsessed with wealth, loves to listen to other people's rhetoric, and does not take Romeo seriously.
Romeo was sad and said, "I can't talk like people on TV, I can't write tender songs, I can't do anything, but I want to give everything for you, I can't do anything but love you......"
Shakespeare was turned upside down, and the stage of dreams was transformed into a ruined city of decline.
The children of wealthy aristocrats have become street gangsters. The loyal girl has long been empathetic, and the noble love is just a joke.
In Shakespeare's play, Romeo runs under Juliet's balcony and confides in love, which is the most classic passage. And this song also takes place in this scene.
Love is just fantasy, and the truth is cruel.
Romeo sighed and said, "Juliet, you cried when we did (sex) and you said, 'I love you like stars in the sky, I love you all my life,'......"
The story of "Romeo and Juliet" is terrible, but the melody is particularly beautiful.
Fang Yan's singing voice was flat, fluttering in the nameless tavern. The guitar is sometimes extremely simple, with a few string strums or a few bass strokes every measure, and at other times it is extremely complex, pulling out a sparkling melody with each phrase he sings.
Many guests don't understand English very well, and they think it's a beautiful song.
"Romeo and Juliet" is a famous song by the British band Terror Strait. The name Dire Straits is a brain-soaked translation, but it just spread, and everybody calls it that.
Dire Strait means "the end of the road", or "the poor to death".
Britain is an eccentric country. It was once the number one power in the world, colonizing the world, tossing and turning for a long time, and finally its influence deteriorated. In addition to the queen and football, there are not many things that can be used in the UK. The British are more old-fashioned, reserved, and have a lot of things, and their food is very difficult to eat.
Sandwiched between the United States and continental Europe, Britain is a bit arrogant and looks down on people on both sides. Of course, people in the United States and Europe do not think very highly of the United Kingdom. By 2016, people in Britain had voted not to play with the EU. And that's not all, the United Kingdom (United Kingdom) itself has to hold a referendum, and maybe it will continue to split.
But it's a great country after all.
In the literary and artistic circles, Britain is still not good. When it comes to rock and pop music, a small Britain is enough to be on an equal footing with the United States.
By the 1980s, the Terror Straits were Britain's greatest rock band. They performed all the way from a London tavern to a sensation around the world.
Their style is both gorgeous and austere, with a variety of elements that are difficult to classify. Some say it's called the melancholic version of Pub Rock.
The heart of the band is lead singer and lead guitar Mark Knopfler, who is not only a great songwriter, but also a top guitarist and a super producer. The old man is in his 60s and is still singing.
Fang Yan sang as his body swayed gently to the rhythm. The sense of rhythm continues and continues to superimpose, turning into a turbulent throbbing. Unlike the calm restraint of the original Romeo and Juliet, his singing voice is mixed with something else.
Too much alcohol.
Fang Yan's alcohol consumption is average, he drank several bottles of beer at night, and more than half a glass of whiskey, his appearance has not changed much, and he is already very drunk. His blood was adulterated with alcohol, and his music was louder and more chaotic.
Wine and music have always been biological brothers.
Human beings have two particularly good mental states, one is called "dreaming" and the other is called "drunk". The people of ancient Greece believed that dreams belonged to Apollo, the god of the sun, and drunkenness belonged to Dionysus, the god of wine.
The sun god is like the sky, it is spiritual, it is sober, dreamy, he created poetry. Poetry is a dream.
Dionysian is like the earth, is the body, intoxicated, wild, he created music. The music is drunk.
The combination of the sun god and the god of wine created the great ancient Greek tragedy.
If Fang Yan's music on the pedestrian street is a dream, then tonight's performance at the nameless tavern is a drunken country. Under the influence of alcohol, he is no longer restrained or meticulous, on the contrary, he only wants to use music to release the state of intoxication.
As the saying goes, drunk mess ...... That's what.
Bacchus opened people's bodies, tore apart the chains of repression, and the truest and most absurd desires bloomed in the air. A sad song "Romeo and Juliet" became a captive of Dionysus.
The guests of the tavern were in a strange state. It no longer matters what Fang Yan sings or plays, everyone follows the rhythm, shaking their bodies one after another, rolling forward.
…… Ecstasy like never before.